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All great advice, the best advice that I have been able to come into contact with is that some new authors will appear at book stores or other store openings to talk about the art of writing. They will mention their own works at the tail end of the conversations.
Another advice that I have heard of is its more in terms of positioning in the writing universe. Millions of readers are always looking for new authors to pick up on and will notice you becuase you - a) write the type of books they like, such as dectives or thrillers and 2) becuase you appear similar to an author that they know or 3) you appear to have a niche to write about. The last is probably the best way that I know of to get noticed, find something that is unusual or new in litterature and explore a new facet of litterature. John Grisham got noticed becuase he was wrting about lawyers in a period that lawyers were not typically in books. James Rollins was noticed becuase he started writing about federal government black ops in an era where that was not generaly written about. Fins something original to write about: a police detective that get the killer (not generaly written about these days as the books typcially talk about amateur and non-police getting the killer).
Why is Robert Langdon popular? (he is the main characters in a recent book called the Da Vinci Code) Becuase he is a symbologist which is unique in modern litterature. Why is Jack Ryan popular? Becuase he is a federal government civil servant which is odd in moern litterature.
Find something new and unusal. Dig through what you know, what you have done in the past, there has got to be something that you know about that could be adapted into story form. For example - in the real world I am a network administrator and that can be adapted into a story line as network administrators are often defense against cyber crimes and if a terrorist decided to use the internet to take down the US's finanical markets a network administrator would be the first on the battle field.
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