Track Changes: Marketing and Publicity (Part 2),
And Defining Success
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📚📈❤️ How authors can create a marketing strategy to promote their own book, and when it might be right to bring in an independent marketing or publicity firms. Jennifer de Leon shares the highs and lows from launching Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, and we discuss expanded definitions of success.
This episode features:
Jennifer de Leon, debut author of YA novel, Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From.
Bekah Sine Decker and Nikki Pierce created Method Agency, an independent marketing firm, in part to help Stephenie Meyer, author of Twilight, release films and #1 New York Times bestselling books.
Catch up on the series:
Episode 2: Agents: Who Are They, What Do They Do, And How Do You Get One?
Episode 3: Selling Your Book (Part 1)
Episode 4: Selling Your Book (Part 2)
Episode 7: After the Book Deal
Episode 8: Marketing and Publicity (Part 1)
Episode 9: Marketing and Publicity (Part 2), and Definitions of Success
Bonus Eps
Publishing in the time of COVID
Panel: The Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From team
Panel: Publishing From Every Angle
Discussed in this episode:
Politics and Prose, a Washington, D.C. bookstore
Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education edited by Jennifer de Leon
The LOGIC Model
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You
Holly Root, literary agent and founder of Root Literary
Track Changes is produced by Hayley Hershman. Zan Romanoff is the story editor. The music was composed by Dan Bailey, and the logo was designed by Collin Keith.
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