Tips for Promoting Your First Book: Even When You Feel Clueless

By Jennifer Lang

A few months before my first book launches into the world, I find myself, like so many writers trying to juggle writing and book promotion, overwhelmed.  All week, I tackle a learn-as-I-go list: contact book bloggers, research book awards, create Canva flyers. Some tasks are self-imposed, others are necessary, particularly when working with a small, independent press.

Yesterday, amidst checking the ARCs of my book, Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature, for typo...