Tag Archives: publicity

Marketing a debut author/book

From what I’ve been told, marketing a book in traditional ways is difficult in a time of social media. Marketing a debut author is even harder. No one knows who we are; there’s no name recognition to bank on. In … Continue reading

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You can’t buy this kind of publicity …

My novel, The Beggar’s Opera, is set in Cuba. It’s not all that flattering to the Cuban government or the U.S. government either, for that matter. I sometimes think that I should get myself to Cuba soon forĀ one last vacation, … Continue reading

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After the copy edits …

I was sent an author’s review version of the copy-edited manuscript to look at it yesterday. Reviewing it required me to learn how to use the “Track changes” function on Microsoft Word, but I finally figured it out. Without that, … Continue reading

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