Tag Archives: marketing
Tell Me About Yourself…If You Must
If you’re a writer, you are lightyears ahead of the game if you love to talk to strangers, especially if you love talking about yourself. The great irony of a words-based calling is that the need to construct sentences and words in an efficient, evocative, memorable manner does not stop even with the completion of …
Announcing Nazi Lavender, My full stage play now on New Play Exchange,
In the last few years of novel work, I have had less time to focus on or even mention my other writing. That ends today with the announcement of my play Nazi Lavender now appearing on New Play Exchange…a site that lets interested parties read script by up and coming playwrights for possible production. Here …
Seek Out Unknown Authors (Like Me)
Discoverability is an enormous factor in one hopes of even modest success as a writer, especially, (but not exclusively) for the indie writer such as myself. We hear it all the time: Your stuff must stand out among literally millions of other options out there. Well, yes and no. If the reader (or consumer) is …
Yes, Virginia, Revisited
I have over the last several Christmases reposted an essay I wrote about the most reproduced newspaper editorial in the history of the English language: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus. You can find that annual post here. As I end another year as a writer of no particular fame or influence, I think …
Is My Work Worth the Work?
Writing is work. So, of course, is marketing. I don’t limit the concept of marketing to agents and publishers and glossy magazine pitches. Marketing your work also includes the delicate balancing act between gaining an audience for a piece on your blog or other platforms and spamming the life out of social media by linking …
Ty Unglebower 