Using Twitter to Your Advantage

, by

Pamela Meyers here with another post on marketing your book. Last month, my post involved social networking and how new and veteran authors can make it all work. I shared many tips that author, Jane Steen, presented at my local ACFW chapter in October, and promised this month I would share her tips on increasing your Twitter presence to your advantage. If you are like me, you’ve been on Twitter a while now, probably used it a lot at first and then as life got in the way, found yourself only going there on occasion. After hearing Jane’s method on…

Read More

Postcards Aren’t Just for Making People Envious of Your Vacation

, by

Hi, all. Pamela S. Meyers here, freshly back from the ACFW National Conference in Dallas, with another installment about marketing your new novel. During my year of blessings in 2011, I received a three-book contract with OakTara Publishing, and a single-title contract with Summerside Press. This fall, the second book in the three-book series is coming out, and next spring the Summerside Press title is to release. When I received final cover art for both books within days of each other, I didn’t have any time to waste if I were to have a promotional item to take with me…

Read More

My Journey to Publication & What I’ve Learned Along the Way

, by

Hello from Pamela Meyers I’ve been asked to write a series of blogs about how my debut novel came to be and what was entailed in its ultimate publication last November. Especially how the conceptualization relates to marketing the book once it was published. Like a proud mama, I’m always pleased to talk about the birth of my baby. Isn’t that how we authors come to think of our stories, be it your very first novel, or your hundredth? What better combination is there than a good romance coupled with a who-done-it mystery written cozy style? At least to my point…

Read More