Track Changes: Marketing and Publicity (Part 2), and Defining Success
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ππβ€οΈ How authors can create a marketing strategy to promote their work, and when it might be right to bring in an independent marketing or publicity firms. Jenn shares the highs and lows from launching Donβt Ask Me Where Iβm From, and we discuss expanded definitions of success.
This episode features:
Jennifer de Leon, debut author of YA novel, Donβt Ask Me Where Iβm From (out August 18).
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 so far:Episode 2: Agents: Who Are They, What Do They Do, And How Do You Get One?
Bonus Episode: Publishing in the time of COVID
Episode 3: Selling Your Book (Part 1)
Episode 4: Selling Your Book (Part 2)
Episode 7: After the Book Deal
Bonus Episode: Inequality in Publishing
Episode 8: Marketing and Publicity (Part 1)
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
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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.