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Selling Yourself

Selling YourselfYou need to be fantastically opportunistic, enthusiastic and dogged to promote yourself and your book or script.

Here are some tips from the experts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why you need to get online

Why you need to get online

Here's an interesting piece from the New York Observer on why you need to use the web to get your writing noticed and promote your books.

Doing your own PR

All writers need to publicise their work. Candace Markwell caught up with Megan Lloyd Laney, PR expert, to find out how to triumph in the PR world.

Tune up your voice

Tone of voice is a more slippery concept than it might seem, but it’s at the heart of good copywriting, argues Tom Scott. It's also an essential tool in selling yourself and your author brand.

Building a community online

Ex-literary and theatrical agent Lizzie Jackson is a web community consultant for the BBC and other market-leading companies. She talked to Nina Benson about how authors can benefit from an online presence.

How to sell yourself

Novelist Jane Jackson gives Jenny Hunt advice on how best to exploit the media for self-promotion.

Professional Advice

The writer has to ask several questions, including: what voice do I use? Who’s listening to me? How can I engage that person?

John Le Carré, Bestselling Author


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This hands-on one-day course is designed for busy professionals to help you write better marketing copy. Run by MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth, in conjunction with HERDA’s Higher Skills Creative Industries Project, the course has been  created with solo practitioners, small and medium business, and business support organisations in mind.

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