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Point of View: How to Promo Yourself

I’m in the throes of planning my next blog tour for my forthcoming novella Autumn Lands, and I thought it would be a great time to talk about what I do to promote my work. And to ask what you all do, too. So here it goes: 1) Do The Blog Tour: This is a mainstay of author promotions, mainly because it can be done on the cheap and can *potentially* reach lots of people. Authors I know are divided on the impact of these tours, but I find that they foster community among the authors and blogs involved, even … Read more

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Point of View: And Now for the Edits…

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Hey all… I just wrapped up the first draft of my latest work, The Autumn Lands, on Saturday night. And boy is it rough. Not rough trade rough. Nothing as sexy as that. Just… rough. I can only blame myself. I started the story out with a general idea of where it was going, a theme for the anthology (“fall”), and a snippet of a story I wrote maybe twenty years ago that I decided would “work” for this project. But I didn’t sit down to do even a rudimentary outline. I’ve been trying to force myself to take this … Read more