Feel the fear and put yourself out there – advice for shy authors

Putting yourself out there . . . in order to get where you need to be is often scary at first, but necessary.

Nail Your Novel

A while ago I was at an author event about book publicity. Finding magazines, blogs and broadcast media that will review our book or interview us. How do we do that? The first thing to do, said my friend Ben Cameron of Cameron PR, is to get the right mindset. Think of it as creative. And fun.

Afterwards, I fell into conversation with Tina, who didn’t see it as fun. Sh...