What we're up to these days:
Publicity for our most recent book.
Yeah, I know, I keep saying that authors aren't in charge of doing publicity, yet here I am, doing publicity. So, what have I done?
Answer: I've put stuff about the book
on my web page. This is wonderful, and free (I already have a web page because, face it, who doesn't?). Whether it will lead to any sales, who knows?
I've talked about the book here, and in
my news group at SFF Net.
I have it in my sig line here at AW (I rotate various things through there) -- the sig changes, and by the time y'all read this perhaps something different will be in the sig. (Look at the bottom of this post.)
I posted the book in the
AW library. (More content for AW! Woo!)
I've been doing readings from works-in-progress at SF conventions for
years. Since this book has been in progress for years....
When the publisher sent us a bunch of ARCs, I dropped them on various places (including my two local weekly newspapers). I live in a town of 2,000 people; those guys are personal friends of mine (the writers' community), and we got a couple of very nice newspaper articles out of 'em. Hurrah, go us!
Now the signings and such. Where did these come from?
Answer: from the publisher. They found the bookstores, and worked out the dates and times. (We talked to the publisher's publicity guy, he talked with the bookstores.)
And this leads us to the next bit, when we got an e-mail from New Hampshire Public Radio, asking if we'd like to be on one of their programs, about our upcoming book. The answer was, you betcha.
So yesterday we had a telephone pre-interview (to find out, perhaps, if we're the sort of authors who can actually talk, and have anything to say that might fill a half-hour). Upshot of that: We'll be on
The Front Porch on Monday, 27 November, 6:30PM EST.
This is New Hampshire Public Radio, and the show is available on the air, as streaming audio, and archived afterwards.
- 88.3, Nashua, WEVS
- 89.1, Concord, WEVO
- 90.3, Nashua, WEVO
- 90.7, Keene, WEVN
- 91.3, Littleton, WEVO
- 91.3, Hanover, WEVH
- 97.3, Plymouth
- 99.5, Jackson, WEVJ
- 103.9, Portsmouth
- 104.3, Dover, WEVO
- 107.1, Gorham, WEVC
- MP3 Player Stream
- Windows Media