Patricia Wrede

And besides, it’s boring and it takes time and it’s boring and it takes energy and it’s boring.

Publicity and Marketing are areas where writers tend to be at one extreme or the other: either they’re naturals or they’re floundering.

There are books and classes on all these things,

For the unpublished and newly published, PR is usually indistinguishable from Marketing. When you only have one or two books out, everything you do in public tends to be targeted at selling those titles,

attending conventions as a pro and getting used to doing panels be

giving TV interviews on one of the major networks (

unless of course your first book is a megahit bestseller, in which case you’d better learn fast. We should all have such problems.).

reputation/relationship the writer has with editors, agents, reviewers, other writers, and industry professionals), and the general reputation the writer has with fans and readers at large.

Out in public” most definitely includes Facebook, Twitter, blogs, comments on other people’s blogs, and any other Internet venues, even if they’re supposedly locked or private

it’ll take an enormous amount of time and effort to change perceptions of you.