Marketing From the Couch: A Writer’s Secret Weapon

This past weekend, I got The Crud that’s been going around Seattle. My officemates have been coughing for weeks. My climbing gym partner had to take a few days off, lest she sneeze on the holds. So it’s not terribly surprising that on Saturday afternoon I took to the couch with a box of tissues and my Kindle, and Ididn’tmove againuntil this morning.

I took advantage of the time, though, to do some serious marketing work.

That is, I read a lot of books.

I left the TV off and sampled popular new f...