How tasteless is that? Now wait, that all depends. I attended a memorial service yesterday in a luxurious home in a rather casual, friendly atmosphere and there was some gentle promotion going on. As far as I could tell no one was offended. In fact, it appeared that the people involved in the conversations were most interested.<\/p>\n
Some of us were introduced as the author of such-and-such a book or the owner of so-and-so company or a freelancer in some field. This typically initiated inquiries and comments creating opportunities for some of us to talk about what we do. I handed bookmarks featuring two of my novels to a couple of people who expressed interest in my cozy mysteries. Did they scowl and tell me I was insensitive to the occasion and walk away? No! On the contrary, they thanked me profusely for the bookmarks and asked a few more questions about the books and about my writing path, etc.<\/p>\n
One gentleman told me about the book he\u2019s writing. He had a few questions regarding publishing, so I shared with him and a few others within hearing distance some publishing and marketing information and suggestions.<\/p>\n
As you become more involved with book promotion, you\u2019ll come to realize there are many ways to promote your book and many levels of promotion. I would not walk into a memorial service wearing a tee shirt with the cover of my book blasted on the front of it. Nor would I wear a large button saying, \u201cAsk me about my book.\u201d And I wouldn\u2019t walk around randomly handing out promo pieces. However, I might use those tactics at a casual afternoon class reunion, a family reunion, a large birthday celebration for a friend or community figure, a Chamber of Commerce mixer or a public event, for example.<\/p>\n
It would be fun to hear some of your most unusual and\/or successful book promotion activities. Send your stories to me at PLFry620@yahoo.com<\/a> or leave your comment here. I\u2019ll share some of mine tomorrow.<\/p>\n Remember, this is prize give-away week. I listed the prizes in my blog dated January 18, 2014. Guess my next big milestone for this blog to be achieved Friday and win.<\/p>\n Not only will you win prizes by following this blog, you will learn a great deal about writing, publishing and marketing a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How tasteless is that? Now wait, that all depends. I attended a memorial service yesterday in a luxurious home in a rather casual, friendly atmosphere and there was some gentle promotion going on. As far as I could tell no one was offended. In fact, it appeared that the people involved in the conversations were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t