Today, I'm at Dorothy Thompson's publicist blog: http://www.pumpupyouronlinebookpromotion.blogspot.com/
where she interviews me about online book promotion. Like many writers, I'd rather write than get out and beat the bushes trying to advertise my works. It was a hit or miss proposition, to say the least, until I saw that Dorothy, list mom for our yahoo writers group, The Writer's Life, decided to go into the business of promoting books online.
Since that time ( a couple of weeks, actually) she has spiffied up my blogs, my website and arranged a virtual blog tour for my book, Once a Brat. My Google hits have already doubled, and I am being interviewed by other writers who have noticed the "buzz" about my book.
Believe me, this is soooo much easier than dressing up, going to a television studio where the lighting makes you look twenty years older than you are, or doing a booksigning where there is very little profit made, or going to book fairs which also feature guns and knives and the customers' eyes glaze over when they see you are selling books. They're hunters, and they're hunting for guns and ammo.
With Internet publicity handled by Dorothy (my publicist-- how I love saying that!) I can sit in my pajamas at home and reach out to the whole world about my book(s).
As soon as we finish promoting Once a Brat, Dorothy already has plans in place to promote my next novel, The Women of Camp Sobingo, which will be released by Mardi Gras Publications on June 9, 2007. I can hardly wait to see what we'll be doing with this book's promotion!
This is not a paid endorsement, btw. I'm just happy to recommend her to all you writers out there who would love the concentrate more on writing, and leave the publicizing in the hands of a competent publicist: Dorothy Thompson.
Enjoy!
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