Promo Woes
Thanks, Skye, for another curly topic for our blog hop! This month is about promotion: love it or hate it. I have never done much active promotion for my work. In the early days of my writing life (1970s and 80s) we were told pretty firmly that promo was our publishers' domain. In fact, some contracts forbade us from running off tooting our own horns. Did publishers do promo? Probably not a lot. I used to get a few interviews in the local paper, on radio and TV, but that was because I was a novelty: a young local. I was in my teens. You couldn't call me beautiful, but I was a fresh face. This little surge died out when it became obvious I was a stayer... what could the paper say about yet another new book by me? They quietly lost my phone number. Once the internet age ushered in, I was already editing for other people and getting newsletters from writing groups. Some o/s members wrote about their promo tours. Some of these were self-funded and it struck me that they must be ...