But, there’s a whole lot of post-award publicity and book sales left on the table for small press or self-published writers . Without resources of a large publisher, there’s no expertise to develop plans in advance or manage promotion after winning a significant book award.
Continue reading →To you and yours I send one simple message: If it is not possible to have peace on earth, may we at least live at ease with each other. Pax.
Continue reading →There are no traditions for merging the happiest time of the year with the emotional pain of loss, whether sudden or lingering.
Continue reading →How can an author supplement a publisher’s efforts to find readers? The pros say discoverability is key to an author’s success and active social media is a must. I’d like to believe that social media can also open two-way communications.
Continue reading →Margaret Atwood, PD James, Cormac McCarthy and James Howard Kunstler have not bothered my sleep in worse times. But I wouldn’t sleep with Mandel’s story in my mind.
Continue reading →What makes sense for my work to be discovered by readers? Here’s what I discovered: Women over 45 account for 58% of all books purchased. They rely on personal recommendations and like to visit bookstores..Some are not online. Those who are find their way to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Continue reading →@c_kraack is now truly a brand. One that Calumet has built. At any moment someone in the world could be reading a tweet from @c_kraack that I generated or Calumet generated. A lesson is now learned—expecting @c_kraack to serve as both my personal twitter handle as well as a business presence is like forgetting difference between Facebook and LinkedIn.
Continue reading →We have written about grim events that required researching information we should not be thinking about the night before a physical. But we can’t help ourselves. We just think too much.
Continue reading →You may have been nurtured by a mother possessing all the perfection of Caroline Ingalls or struggled through childhood with a parent who took lessons from Hamlet’s Queen Gertrude. For most people growing up in Mom’s kitchen fell in a more safe and boring middle ground.
Continue reading →To have The High Cost of Flowers named a finalist in both the contemporary fiction and literary fiction categories in the twelve-state Midwest Book Award competition is an honor.
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