[stylist] Marketing Article and Recent Posts

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

David,

Braille actually doesn't have to be expensive anymore with the conception of
digital Braille. Of course, this requires a device to read it, which is
expensive, but once you have such a device-- Braille keyboard, Braille note,
etc.-- you can download Braille files to read, sometimes for free like
through NLS. This is primarily how Braille users read now.

Online and social media promotion is big nowadays. Self-publishers to
traditional publishers use these platforms to market and promote books.
Writers are encouraged to have websites and a social media presence in order
to promote themselves and their work. How effective this is depends on how
much you utilize these platforms, and how well you execute promotions.
Big-time authors still have a team working to help promote their books, so
they have an advantage over those of us doing it on our own, or with just a
couple of people, often semi to non-professional.

Bridgit

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Hello Writers,

First, thank you Vejas and L Y N D A (Lynda) for your responses to my recent
posts. I to a lot more assuming in life than should be done.
Yes, I know about the right and left arrow keys, and will try to make mental
note to check name spellings using those keys.
 Vejas, as to the marketing article by Angela Hoy, I agree, it would have
been nice for Angela to perhaps share her own learning experience. I will
grant, the article was somewhat an infomercial of sorts for her book or
program.

This is mostly assumption on my part, but from those whom I have had brief
discussion with here:
Bridgit has a network of persons through her MFA program to market skills or
help.
- Lynda is connected with academics and to some extent the blind community
at large.
- Sarah worked with a "traditional ? or self publisher" in getting her books
out.
- Michelle is published on Lulu, and has a team that help print, produce,
and distribute her novels.
To all of you, Who promotes and how?

The better question is how do you go about making a unique promo?
There are jingles we probably each know from memory that we'll never forget.
Those are unique promotions.

My editor who is sighted made the observation, paraphrasing, you will
probably hear things from these writers about writing and publishing that
sighted people take for granted. Let me know what they are.
She wondered, do most blind authors have their books also  recorded now
since braille is expensive?

Cheers,

--
David Russell
david.sonofhashem at gmail.com
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener

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