

'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Seven: The Two Things You'll Run Into
The idea of this series of articles is to make you the most effective marketer of your own work that it’s possible to be. Naturally, it...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Six: The Relationship Between Writer and Reader
What attracts your attention? Human attention is drawn to things that a) seem out of sequence b) contain gaps or mysteries or missing...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Five: Waking Up Your Readers
To recap slightly: modern marketing tells you to stand in a packed room and toss out your message like tennis balls into the crowd in the...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Four: The Undiscovered Country
We’re looking at marketing as nothing more (and nothing less) than communication . The basic idea is that, when you write a story, you’re...


'Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?' Part Three
Continuing our series about marketing as communication, we come to the point of defining some steps which every writer who wants to be...


‘Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?’ Part Two
So if marketing is communication, and if the act of marketing is an extension of the act of writing — both involving building on appeal...


‘Oh no! Not Marketing again! Do I have to?’
Marketing seems to drive some writers crazy. I suppose one reason why traditional publishers developed as they did was because they were...


Seven Things You Can Do In Stressful Situations
In the lockdown situation of a few years ago, many people around the world, including many writers, found that staying at home was more...