If you could be on the front page of any magazine, which would it be? For me it would have to be a writing magazine. I won't choose one here because it feels a bit fatalistic. But to feature on any one of them would be quite a personal scoop. Maybe it would tie in with the publication of the first of a series of historical drama's that I'd been commissioned to writer over the duration of my life - well one has to dream big! Or maybe it would be a series of 'how to' articles from the desk of a published author, a position I hope to have one day.
I don't think I'd like a picture of my phizog though, I take a dreadful picture as my long suffering husband will only tell you. 'Smile naturally' he shouts at me just as the shutter is about to go off rendering a malevolent grin which only looks good on the face of a comic about dogs with big mouths. No, I'd like the cover of my book on the front page, but then that's another dilemma - who would create such a thing of beauty? I love front covers. A front cover is one of the reasons I would pick up a book in the first instance, I may put it back down again having read the blurb, or the first page, or heaven forbid the last page (a habit I'm trying to break). But a front cover is important. It's like any kind of 'front shop'. It needs to draw your audience in, whoever it maybe.
So come on, spill the beans, where would you like to flaunt your stuff?
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Showing posts with label self marketing. Show all posts
2 April 2011
3 February 2010
A WRITING COMMUNITY
Is A Good Place To Go
As you will know if you regularly visit this site, I am part of a new writing community called Writers Abroad. (See link at the end of this post). It's not so much of a new community, some of us have actually been in contact for at least 12 months now, but that's not the point of this post. We agreed that we, as a group of writers and as individuals needed to promote our on-line presence. Some of us already have blogs and/or websites but it feels good to be part of a community. It is this community, this group of people who I have never met face-to-face, who provide me with the support and motivation to keep on writing. So when I've had yet another rejection, these are the people who pick me up, dust me down and make suggestions of where else to pitch the piece. These are the people who suggest how I might enliven a character a bit more, where my point of view is becoming a bit schizophrenic and where I have not dotted my i's or crossed my t's. So this blog post is dedicated to this group and our continued future on Writers Abroad!
Don't Think Just Write
Visit Writers Abroad
As you will know if you regularly visit this site, I am part of a new writing community called Writers Abroad. (See link at the end of this post). It's not so much of a new community, some of us have actually been in contact for at least 12 months now, but that's not the point of this post. We agreed that we, as a group of writers and as individuals needed to promote our on-line presence. Some of us already have blogs and/or websites but it feels good to be part of a community. It is this community, this group of people who I have never met face-to-face, who provide me with the support and motivation to keep on writing. So when I've had yet another rejection, these are the people who pick me up, dust me down and make suggestions of where else to pitch the piece. These are the people who suggest how I might enliven a character a bit more, where my point of view is becoming a bit schizophrenic and where I have not dotted my i's or crossed my t's. So this blog post is dedicated to this group and our continued future on Writers Abroad!
Don't Think Just Write
Visit Writers Abroad
1 April 2009
APRIL FOOLS?
Current Work: Non-fiction, planning and yes, still editing...
Listening to: Lionel Ritchie, ooh it takes me back...
Reading: Tripwire A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Getting Noticed
Well, you could market yourself with a few silly pranks, but probably not the best way to impress a potential client. I had an email yesterday from a rather large copy writing company asking if I would be interested in doing a small assignment for them. Would I? Well yes, I would and I have replied in the positive. But I also asked how they came across my details, I'm just one of thousands and thousands. The brief is specific, because it relates to a) Italy, where I live b) Diabetes, from which my Man Friday suffers and so those are two reasons to answer the question why me? But also they got my name from a colleague who'd written with a request I couldn't help with and they passed my details on. They originally found me through a 'random Google search'. Scary or just the way of the modern world? Its not about a physical presence anymore, its a virtual one and you could be anyone you wanted. However, the thing is I'm not technical enough to increase my chances of being found on Google, although I know it can be done.
Review of Last Month
So we are at the start of a new month. I love it. just picture me rubbing my hands together, with a blank page in front of me entitled 'PLANS FOR APRIL', with my favourite fountain pen and a big smile on my face. It's soon filled with ideas, thoughts, actions and deadlines and then I look back over the last four weeks. Whoops, missed that one, never mind carry it forward... oops! another and another and you get the picture now. A page full of 'carry forwards' and 'must do's' in red ink! I've promised myself I'll get the red actions done first and then get on with the new plans but unfortunately as ever, I've been distracted!
Oh and I've just added my contribution to Suite 101, about The Royal Signal Corps, which was prompted by a photograph in the paper (an english one sent by my wonderful Pa in the UK).
Listening to: Lionel Ritchie, ooh it takes me back...
Reading: Tripwire A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Getting Noticed
Well, you could market yourself with a few silly pranks, but probably not the best way to impress a potential client. I had an email yesterday from a rather large copy writing company asking if I would be interested in doing a small assignment for them. Would I? Well yes, I would and I have replied in the positive. But I also asked how they came across my details, I'm just one of thousands and thousands. The brief is specific, because it relates to a) Italy, where I live b) Diabetes, from which my Man Friday suffers and so those are two reasons to answer the question why me? But also they got my name from a colleague who'd written with a request I couldn't help with and they passed my details on. They originally found me through a 'random Google search'. Scary or just the way of the modern world? Its not about a physical presence anymore, its a virtual one and you could be anyone you wanted. However, the thing is I'm not technical enough to increase my chances of being found on Google, although I know it can be done.
Review of Last Month
So we are at the start of a new month. I love it. just picture me rubbing my hands together, with a blank page in front of me entitled 'PLANS FOR APRIL', with my favourite fountain pen and a big smile on my face. It's soon filled with ideas, thoughts, actions and deadlines and then I look back over the last four weeks. Whoops, missed that one, never mind carry it forward... oops! another and another and you get the picture now. A page full of 'carry forwards' and 'must do's' in red ink! I've promised myself I'll get the red actions done first and then get on with the new plans but unfortunately as ever, I've been distracted!
Oh and I've just added my contribution to Suite 101, about The Royal Signal Corps, which was prompted by a photograph in the paper (an english one sent by my wonderful Pa in the UK).
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