{"id":2526,"date":"2015-01-08T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T22:38:36","slug":"guest-blogger-amanda-mctigue-talks-about-marketing-your-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/guest-blogger-amanda-mctigue-talks-about-marketing-your-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger Amanda McTigue talks about marketing your book"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you’ve got your book written, or almost written, or you have an idea for a book, but you’re stuck dead in your tracks because you detest the marketing aspect of the book business<\/p>\n

Amanda McTigue says, “No doubt about it: we writers love to write, hate to sell. How could it be otherwise? We\u2019re the odd balls who\u2019d rather spend vast quantities of time alone in our imaginations. And yet these days, we\u2019re told not only must we craft (and sometimes publish) our works, but also find readers to read them: a daunting challenge compounded by our own dread. What\u2019s a writer to do?”<\/p>\n

Amanda shares resources on one of our least favorite challenges: marketing yourself and your book.<\/p>\n

“The Psychology of Writer Promotion. How to Promote Yourself,\u201d Chuck Wendig<\/a><\/p>\n

“Book Marketing 101,\u201d Jane Friedman<\/a><\/p>\n

“Five Mistakes You\u2019ll Make on the Way to Publishing Success,\u201d Carmen Amato <\/a>via Jane Friedman<\/p>\n

71 Ways to Promote and Market Your Book,\u201d Kimberley Grabas<\/a><\/p>\n

15 DIY Tools to Promote Your Book,\u201d Writer\u2019s Store<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Amanda<\/a>Author, playwright, stage director and storyteller, Amanda McTigue<\/strong><\/a> has also worked for decades as a creative marketing consultant for such clients as Walt Disney Entertainment, Paramount Entertainment and design firms such as Thinkwell and The Hettema Group in Los Angeles. Her novel, \u201cGoing to Solace,\u201d was cited by public radio KRCB\u2019s \u201cWord by Word\u201d as a Best Read of 2012. She also makes regular appearances at Petaluma\u2019s \u201cWest Side Stories\u201d and \u201cGet Lit.\u201d She\u2019s busy completing short stories and a second novel. Click here<\/a> for Amanda’s Resource page.<\/p>\n

Amanda will be the March 19, 2015 Writers Forum<\/a> presenter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, you’ve got your book written, or almost written, or you have an idea for a book, but you’re stuck dead in your tracks because you detest the marketing aspect of the book business Amanda McTigue says, “No doubt about it: we writers love to write, hate to sell. How could it be otherwise? We\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104],"tags":[321,615,613,614,616,617,343],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers","tag-amanda-mctigue","tag-carmen-amato","tag-chuck-wendig","tag-jane-friedman","tag-kimberley-grabas","tag-writers-store","tag-writers-forum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-EK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}