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The Clash, AI, and Marketing 101, by Josh Stallings

Q:  Do you set aside dedicated time to do promotion for your book and your brand? If so, how much time and what do you concentrate on? If not, why not?

“Siri play The Clash Sandinista! loud.” Give me Topper Headon’s locked tight beat. Strummer’s chord stabs. Give me the fuck-capitalism ethos. To get the label to release Sandinista! as a triple-LP at a cost the fans could afford, the band lowered their royalty rate. Also for the first time they listed song writing credits not by individual members...

TikTok ate my Street Team

Do you set aside dedicated time to do promotion for your book and your brand? If so, how much time and what do you concentrate on? If not, why not?

Not really, if that means "Thursday afternoons" or "the last morning of every month". But yes indeed if it means "put things that need to be done on the to-do list and do them in time".
best pic I've taken of Rachel
At least, for my book(s), that is. I solicit blurbs and accept invitations to give them, I go on blog tours, I appear at conventions and at...

Please...and thank you by Cathy Ace

Do you set aside dedicated time to do promotion foryour book and your brand? If so, how much time and what do you concentrate on?If not, why not?

I wish I wassufficiently well organized to be able to say that I always make a detailed planto promote my brand and my books, but I’m not, and I don’t. Yes, I know I’llneed to make a specific push at a particular time, but that’s more of a generalplan rather than an effort that’s timetabled into my schedule. Which ispossibly/probably a bad thin...

Morning Caffeine, Munchkin, and Promotion by Gabriel Valjan

 

Do you set asidededicated time to do promotion for your book and your brand? If so, how muchtime and what do you concentrate on? If not, why not?

 As a rule, NO, I don’t dedicate a special time to promotemyself and my brand. However, I do commit my daily Coffee Time to doing socialmedia. It’s a qualification with a distinction because I use social media tosupport other authors. My books are released into the wild once a year, so I domy best to to keep the flame alive.

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May I Have Your Attention, Please?

 Q: Do you set aside dedicated time to do promotion for your book and your brand? If so, how much time and what do you concentrate on? If not, why not?

-from Susan

 

Yes and no. I cop to a lack of focus, especially when it’s a promotional sphere I’m clueless about. The learning time takes up all the mental bandwidth I have at times, witness I was told I had to have an Instagram account and so now I do, but it’s anemic because I can’t figure out on my own how to use it and I’m too impatient to read ...

Freedom of Expression?

by Abir

Begging my colleagues' indulgence, I'm going to stray from this week's topic and talk about some important issues that have been making news in the literary world this week.

A week may be a long time in politics, and three days it seems can be seismic in the world of crime fiction.

 

On Monday night, I was fortunate enough to be attending the British Book Awards in London. The highlight of the night was an appearance, via videolink, by Sir Salman Rushdie to accept the Freedom to Publish Awar...

Reading, Writing, and a Good Cause from James W. Ziskin

Do you set aside time for reading, or is it a haphazard affair? Do you think reading helps your writing?

Of course reading helps my writing. I believe all authors came to writing from a love of reading. Why else would we sit alone—or maybe tussling with a cat hellbent on appropriating our keyboard—for months on end fretting over the perfect words, the cleverest plot twists, and the best fleshed-out characters? Reading is to writing what alcohol is to an alcoholic. You really can’t have one withou...

Time well spent

Do you set aside time for reading, or is it a haphazard affair? Do you think reading helps your writing?

by Dietrich

I don’t have a set routine for reading, but I always manage to find time during the day to read. Reading is so inspiring, and it’s what got me into writing in the first place. Back when I was a kid, it was just the best kind of entertainment. Thank you, Dr. Seuss. Thank you, Roald Dahl. Thank you, Beverly Cleary.

It’s still the best kind of entertainment, and since e-books and a...

What Goes Around

Terry here, with our question of the week: Do you have old unpublished manuscripts that you might revive? Why did you abandon them? What would it take for you to go back to them?A few years ago, I bought a new desk. I decided it was a symbolic gesture that deserved something grand. For me, that was weeding out old manuscripts. I promised myself I could keep anything that looked promising. 
 Mind you, these were books that landed good agents, but the agents were never able to sell them. One ma...

My Reading Style

Do you set aside time for reading, or is it a haphazard affair? Do you think reading helps your writing?

Brenda 

Like all writers, I am a voracious reader and have been since my first visit to the public library. We were also read to as kids, and happily passed along this same joy of reading to our own two daughters. I'd have to say that a lifetime of reading good books has been essential to me becoming and progressing as a writer.

My sister Donna on left, Dad and me - story time!

I began writing wh...