Marketing and Rejection
July 1st, 2009A writer really does wear several hats. Many writers have day jobs or have side businesses tied in with their writing to survive financially until they become recognized authors on a bigger scale. Some are website designers, book cover designers, run their own publishing companies, owners of review sites, or still maintain their outside jobs not related to writing.
My scoring job was short-term but gave me some money to spend on promo which is expensive. If only I could just write and have someone else do all the marketing and mailing of promo items. I hate packaging pens, bookmarks, and other items to mail to several places. And postage rates keep rising. But at the same time, I’m proud of my books so want people to know about my releases.
I’m busy working on marketing for my new August release, WHITNEY IN CHARGE. I’m also having bookmarks designed and choosing other promo items. I’m trying to keep the cost down so I make a profit.
It’s great there are cheaper print companies online now so authors can save money by uploading their own designs. Goddess Fish is doing a virtual book tour for Whitney in August.
My very first editor, Ansley, at Samhain loved my writing and gave me the three contracts for the books I have with this publisher. When she left before my books were edited for publication, I was assigned to a new editor. I had a great working relationship with the second editor, Linda. One problem though is she doesn’t care for what I write. She likes hot reads, especially erotic romances. She’s not interested in accepting straight contemporary if it doesn’t have a lot of hot sex scenes. I submitted my novella to her recently with hopes that she would offer me a contract. Wrong. She said, “The sex scenes aren’t hot enough for our lascivious readers. Straight contemporary is a hard sell here.”
I’m not going to change my novella by making the two small sex scenes hotter. I will submit it elsewhere. Wish me luck! I love this short and think readers will enjoy it, too.

