Reality Check on Publishers’ Dismal Marketing Efforts By M.J Rose

It’s a sad but true fact. Authors need to learn some marketing basics because publishing houses don’t do enough PR for all but their biggest or hottest books.
Last week, one of the students in our Create a Buzz Plan class and I had a half hour phone call (which is offered to all Buzz students now) to do some more brainstorming. During the call he told me what was going on with his book. He’d landed a traditional contract and received a $175K advance. But, his publisher was doing nothing to get the word out. Absolutely nothing.

Patience, Perseverance, and Pain by Dorothy Baughman

I started writing somewhere around 1966. My favorite authors were the mystery ladies, Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart and Phyllis Whitney. I wonder if I could even come close, I said to myself. I had mysteries on the brain since my Nancy Drew days and had even had one started at 15, but marrying and having children put an end to writing for awhile.

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