A Quote by Heather Hart
Marketing starts even before our books are published.
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There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.
I think the reason I've published so few books is that I have a pretty high expectation of self-reinvention between books and I would prefer to have been in this world and published fewer works than I would publishing the books that would reveal the process of the changes.
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.
The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.
I read my books aloud before they were published.
I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.
Sometimes I go to a test screening and look at the audience in line, and I start to go, "Okay, I bet this is going to work, and this isn't going to work." It's weird, but just going and facing the music and putting it out before a crowd, even before it starts playing, that exercise of putting it up on a screen for people makes you realize things even before it starts rolling. It's really weird. I've heard other people say that, too.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
Thousands of books are published every year in India, and it's becoming more difficult to stand out and get people to buy the books. The only way to get people notice the book is to create a buzz much before it's released.
All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having their memoir published. Even though these books deal with serious, often painful, issues, in all cases the authors felt as though writing their story would be an empowering and healing experience.
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.
I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.
