EVENT: Wisconsin Sisters in Crime Presents Author Maggie Smith - BEFORE AND AFTER A BOOK LAUNCH – A ONE-YEAR PLAN (via Zoom) DATE: January 20, 2024 (11:00 AM CST)
DESCRIPTION: While writing a book is not a linear process, marketing a book is. In the first half hour, we’ll go over how to set goals and budgets, and then step through a detailed timeline for giving your next novel its best chance to find a readership. In the next half hour, we’ll drill down into the nitty-gritty—things like cover design, blurbs, review sites, street teams, media coverage, blog posts, podcasts, social media, launch party tips, speaking gigs, hand-selling, bookstores, contests, associations, book clubs, joint promotions, and giveaways.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: In a career that’s included work as a journalist, a psychologist, and the founder of a national art consulting company, Maggie Smith added novelist to her resume with the publication of her debut, TRUTH AND OTHER LIES, a women’s fiction novel set in Chicago and released in March 2022, by Ten16 Press. It won NIEA’s Juror Grand Prize, the Star Award for Debut Fiction from Women’s Fiction Writers Association, Foreword INDIES Gold Metal for General Fiction, and was selected for the Women’s Book Association Great Group Reads. In addition to her writing, Maggie hosts the weekly podcast Hear Us Roar (215+ episodes), blogs monthly for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and is Managing Editor for Chicago Writer’s Association Write City E-Zine. She resides in Milwaukee WI with her husband and her aging but still adorable sheltie. Her second novel, a psychological suspense called BLINDSPOT will be released in May 2024.
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