Mara Valderran's Blog, page 2
July 8, 2023
July 2, 2023
#YAIndiePath Series: Find the Free Shit (#1)
Not even joking. Not everyone has the budget to immediately start putting money into marketing. I definitely do not.
The first thing I’m doing is looking for all the free promos I can. For me, this means reviewers first. This is a Book Marketing 101 tip you will read in just about every marketing article you read: Reviews sell books.
Reviewers sell more books. Why? Because most of them aren’t simply dropping a review on Amazon or Goodreads. They are sharing on their blogs and their social media....
June 25, 2023
The WFH Mama: The Ugly Side
“You are so lucky to work from home!”
“That’s so great that you get to be there with your daughter instead of going to the office!”
I usually hear some variation of this every day while I’m working. Most of the time, I laugh and agree. I mean, they aren’t wrong. But on bad days, I’m harshly reminded that they aren’t exactly right either.
Working from home as a parent is a grey area. It’s straddling that line between “this is great!” and a complete mental breakdown. If you work for someone, you pro...
June 18, 2023
TV Review: Sanditon Season 3
I’m an Austenite. I can’t help it. Jane Austen’s works are classics for a reason. Yes, they are formulaic and always end with a happy ever after where all the characters defy the odds of that time and find both love and sensible matches. But who doesn’t love a happy ending?!
More than that, she’s my hero. She defied the odds and lived by her pen. She helped pave the way for female authors.
Like many authors, she had unfinished works. Sanditon was one such unfinished work. When I read that they we...
More than that, she’s my hero. She defied the odds and lived by her pen. She helped pave the way for female authors.
Like many authors, she had unfinished works. Sanditon was one such unfinished work. When I read that they we...
