Yesterday I was doing a brainstorming session about how to revolutionise my marketing approach (like, to get one), and a big cartoon star of inspiration fell on my head:
“Don’t become a good marketer. Be a good author. Instead of learning to be good at the Internet, write your books and stories. Make those as good as they can be, and trust that this will be enough, even if it takes time.”
(Now if my 900 Twitter followers would just buy a bloody book”¦)
Meanwhile, I have a real-life event to attend this weekend: I’m packing up a suitcase full of books I’ve made and going to The Scottish Poetry Library’s annual artists’ books and small press fair, By Leaves We Live. I’ll have a table there all day, and at 2:30PM will be giving a talk called “How to Make a Paperback”.
It’ll be weird being in Edinburgh as a visitor!
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