NOW THAT MY BOOK’S OUT….

In real estate, it’s “location, location, location.” In book promotion, it seems more like “connections, connections, connections.” Oprah, where are you?

 I am lining up more Book Talks. They help get the word out and are fun to do. And some books sell after each one, which is a good thing. I need to break out from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to places like Pennsylvania, Florida and Montana where some of the stories featured in my book take place. I wonder if people in Bozeman, Montana for example, would turn out to hear an Easterner talk about a book called What Else You Got? Freelancing in Radio? Maybe. If not, there’s always great fly fishing nearby. 

 The thought of an audiobook is enticing. Here’s something I know nothing about, nor does my publisher. We need to contact a producer of such books and learn more. I’d want to narrate, which wouldn’t be easy, considering all the voices in my various stories. Would I impersonate or just use a different tempo for each voice?

 Question: At a recent Book Talk in Chestertown, MD a friend asked me to sign two copies of my book that she bought for her daughters. As I’m writing the first note (creative, of course) a man in line asks a question. Time out! Thinking, creative writing and answering a question simultaneously does not work for me. Can other authors do this? Is there a technique to focus on one while listening to the other? Of course, come to think of it, it’s not such a bad problem to have—I mean signing books while people are lined up means people are interested and buying, right? 

Photo credit: Brooke Harwood, courtesy of Washington College, Chestertown, MD