Tips From the Pros: Pamela S. Meyers

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Davalynn Spencer here from Colorado, pleased to introduce new author Pamela S. Meyers. Welcome, Pamela. Tell us a little about your journey to becoming an author. Although I’d always felt a need to write things down—I asked for and received a diary when I was eight—I never took the idea of writing for income seriously until my writing professor where I returned to college to get my degree encouraged me to do so. I started with articles but quickly gravitated to fiction. Then I joined ACFW, got connected to crit groups, and attended writers’ conferences, honing my craft and submitting…

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What’s Your Marketing To-Do List for 2013?

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Hi all. Pamela S. Meyers here with another post on marketing your books. We are nearing the end of another year, and I’ve been thinking about what kind of New Year’s resolutions we authors can make as they relate to marketing. Happy day after Christmas! If you’re not out shopping the bargains, now is the perfect time to put those marketing goals into place. What they might be depends on if you just had a book release, or have one coming up in the new year. In my case, my Love Finds You in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is releasing April…

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Marketing a debut novel

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Hi everyone. Pamela Meyers here for my monthly column on what I’ve learned about marketing your debut novel. We’re almost to the end of July and with fall just around the corner, I can look forward to Love Will Find a Way, my second book in the On The Road to Love series, coming out November 2012—exactly one year after Thyme for Love made its debut appearance. Over the past several months, I’ve let the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer lull me into a kind of laid-back stance as I’ve spent time researching historical information for a book series….

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To Tour Or Not To Tour

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How to Make Your Blog Tours More Successful An author recently asked me (Cat Hoort), “do blog tours really work?” I sat silent for a moment, wondering how to react. I could be shocked: “What do you MEAN? Of course they work!” I could be ambivalent: “Meh. Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t.” I could be doubtful: “Not really. But we can keep our fingers crossed.” I could be enthusiastic: “Absolutely! All the time. Every time!” So which one is it?

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