Tag: book promotion

  • I’m Not Good Enough

    Something’s been bothering me for years. It is my reluctance, and the reluctance of so many authors I talk with, to commit to promoting our books (and ourselves). We’re told to by publishers, agents, fellow authors, even readers, but we resist. Oh, how we resist! It started (for me) with Carina Press back in 2010.…

  • Marketing for Kindle Scout

    Marketing has negative connotations in my mind. I know this is silly, but I tend to think of it as “convincing people to do things against their best interest”. Yeah, no wonder I hate marketing! But with Kindle Scout and asking people to nominate my romantic suspense, Sky Garden, for consideration by its editors, I…

  • Graphics Bonanza!

    I’ve been spending a fair bit of time learning how to use Canva.com to create graphics to promote my books. These are generally called teasers, although there’s some debate whether they should or shouldn’t include quotations from books. As always, I sit on the fence and have both. Someone asked me the other day why…