by Heidi K. Rojek | Feb 19, 2020 | Literary Agents
You’re confident your collection of short stories is going to be a bestseller. It’s going to be the next literary sensation. Now, all you have to do is get it published. Should you hire a literary agent? Do you even know how to get a literary agent? Should you pitch...
by Brian Feinblum, Media Connect | Jun 26, 2019 | Articles, Literary Agents, Marketing, Public Relations/Services, Setting Up For Sales, Tips from the Pros
After three decades of promoting over a thousand authors to the media, I have found these are the strategies that work for authors marketing themselves: 1. Contact a ton of people in hopes that at least a small number will respond favorably. 2. Target a...
by Scott Lorenz, Westwind Communications | Jan 9, 2019 | Articles, Literary Agents, Marketing, Pre-Publication, Self-Publishing, Setting Up For Sales, Tips from the Pros
If you are a serious writer with high aspirations, then you’ll want to go to a writers’ conference. A writers’ conference is a think tank for authors to build on each other’s ideas and inspire new achievements in their own work. For the cost of lodging and...