I got to know bestselling mystery writer J.A. Jance when she kindly wrote a blurb for my most recent book. I wrote to thank her, and we've kept in touch ever since. My
current blog post is a talk with Judith, in which she details her own contribution to marketing her books. It's all about getting off one's butt to make personal contacts and turn readers into devoted supporters. She was first published by a NY publisher, but as a paperback original, which means little attention or promotion. She parlayed that opening into a terrific career. "Don’t let the turkeys get you down," she writes. "Don’t just grumble. Do something. Do events. Get people in your corner. I still encounter people who say, 'I met you the first time selling books on a card table outside a Waldenbooks in wherever.' Fifty plus books later, those people are still reading my books."
Have a read. You might learn something; I did.