25 Apr 2013
Off to NEC-RWA
Book Tunnel- photo by Petr Kratochvil. The book tunnel is the Prague library and book tunnel in Prague's library was created by Matej Kren in 1998. I want one!
Tomorrow I’m off to the New England Chapter of RWA (Romance Writers of America) annual conference. It’s no great travel adventure, just a hour drive up route 95 from my little home. I’ve been several times–it’s always a great event, and I come back replete with knowledge (for at least a few minutes–I love learning new things, part of the reason the Internet is dangerous for ) and social interaction with my fellow writers. I’m excited and curiously nervous. I keep changing my mind about what to wear, as if that matters. My promo materials are packed. I got a haircut today. And tomorrow I’m off to talk writing and books, learning about writing, meet new people, reacquaint myself with people I rarely see, and more than likely drink a bit too much. Oh, and sell books! Let’s not forget the book signing on Saturday. 3:30-5:30 PM at the Burlington, MA Marriott.I’ll not only be talking about books, and acquiring books, I’ll be selling books. Perhaps this is the source of my anxiety. I should have all my ebooks available, but I’m really not sure how one goes about “autographing” ebooks. I have postcards for some of the books, but not all of them. And now I’m panicking a little about that.
In any case, I’ll be back on Saturday night, with a lot of new freebie books to read, and, I hope, some words of wisdom to impart!
Picture by Petr Kratochvil, from PublicDomainPhotos.net. More information here: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=11604&picture=book-tunnel”>Book Tunnel</a> by Petr Kratoch
Autographing ebooks:
* Kindlegraph
* Printed bookcovers
* Bookplates (I have custom ones)
* Postcards – I made ones for my publishing company so they have multiple covers and info on them, and since my books won’t go out of print, the cards will always be useful
* Any other promo material you might have (although why spend the money?)
Obviously none of this helps right now, but thoughts for the future.
Dayle
April 26th, 2013 at 12:53 AMpermalink
Hi Dayle, thanks for the info.
I have printed book covers and a flyer for one of my backlist series so I’ll guess I’ll be OK.
I’ve bookmarked Kindlegraph for future reference–have seen it mentioned in passing but always in a situation where I thought “I’ll look into that sometime” and never did. Looks worth doing, at a quick glance!
Teresa Noelle Roberts
April 26th, 2013 at 8:05 AMpermalink