What I’ve learned from a year of pitching… So one question that comes to me is that if I’m going to have to do most of the promotion anyway, why would I give the publisher 85%? For what? The imprimatur of a “real” publisher? Let’s cut out the middlemen and the gatekeepers. And for me, the freedom to write what I want to, design the presentation, and launch it promptly is as important to my creative process as getting paid.
Ok people this is like knowing about your bank account. It’s time to learn. You need to keep track of lots of different usernames and passwords. This is an introduction to url, hosting, wordpress, and coding, so you know what’s what.
Our kickstarter campaign to pre-launch Underground Restaurant ran from 7 July to 6 August, 2012. We reached our goal of $3500 and surpassed it by
For a long time blogs were seen as vain, and/or as drivel. That’s over. Now blogs are driving and interpreting the news. They are also
Here’s the not-so-pretty truth that I’m sure you already are starting to know. It’s NOT about whether your idea is new and innovative. It’s about
We’re learning to communicate more effectively, with messages focused on getting people to take action. But not every communication that helps get your message out
As we dove into promotion of Underground Restaurant, we immediately realized that we had made a terrible mistake. We had never written a book proposal,
I was initially attracted to twitter and joined up years ago because I like to write and, as Audrey Lorde says, “poetry is economical”. But
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