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Old 02-29-2008, 12:35 PM   #37
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...Another author I know writes SF and fantasy, and had what I thought was a very sensible idea: she treated the advance from her first book as a marketing budget, and used it to do her own promotion and pay for travel to appear at SF conventions and the like to promote herself and her work. It worked, and she's established now, with books under contract to two different publishers, and a career that is progressing nicely. And she's fortunate enough to have a husband who makes enough money that the revenue she makes from writing is gravy, and not required just to support the family. But she realized the fundamental truth too many writers don't grasp, that it is ultimately on them to establish themselves and promote their work. ...

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Is that Wen Spencer, by any chance? Wen has certainly done a good job of promoting herself and her work. Of course, the fact that her work is darned good really helps...

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