I wrote a poem using scenes I saw today. Took pictures and somehow strung it together. It’s been a lovely exercise.
Thisness of light in the afternoon.
How summer wine turns crisp
in the autumn air:
stillness turns fickle
as sugar turns fizz.
I sip it restless just thinking of you.
A business of lives yet unread:
the White Album lies shy
in a brown paper bag.
Christmas better come
so my state’s better gone.
How do I read you from so far away?
Witness the lighthouse laser;
a homing beacon for
those lost in space.
Dimness blooms bright
when your face blooms mine.
Hope you’re back to roost before spring.
Welp, marketing is about getting noticed, so any other way you can get noticed will work too! (>‿◠)
She seemed to do it mostly with grouping Pinterest pix together to give readers the vibes of the book, not much more. And she talked about herself constantly. Actually, those videos have way more hits so maybe readers want to hear about the writer more than they want to know about the book…? I honestly have no idea what they want. But a whole lot of them sure bought her book without knowing a dang thing about it. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
Most trad published authors have to do their own marketing. Houses will often provide some marketing, but the rest is on you - and they don’t usually like people not doing their end of the deal.
So, to put on timestamps, I end up briefing through my videos and I was reminded just how bad this writing advice article was (this video!). It’s like no thought went into trying to actually be helpful. It’s clickbait. Absolutely ridiculous.
I can’t believe they thought they could publish this.
I’m going to a book event (as an author) in November, but I need books and there’s a postal strike, and unending road construction preventing deliveries to my apartment.
Thanks! I’m nervous, it’s in an anglophone burrough of a francophone city so I fear for my limited ability to communicate, but I’m going to see if there are flyers or something I can pass around at uni.
