tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post4340189715858568246..comments2024-03-22T21:55:42.651+00:00Comments on Elizabeth Baines: How I feel about publicityElizabeth Baineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-7080095436080558552009-07-29T14:52:13.339+01:002009-07-29T14:52:13.339+01:00Thanks for this, Anna May, and all the very best w...Thanks for this, Anna May, and all the very best with promoting your work!Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-55589238702537717962009-07-29T13:51:15.032+01:002009-07-29T13:51:15.032+01:00Hello Elizabeth, your thoughts on publicity are ve...Hello Elizabeth, your thoughts on publicity are very interesting. I am a writer and a teller and a sharer and have come to realise that if I don't promote my work it won't get read. I blog, and talk about my work a lot on radio to stimulate interest in it. Silence gets me nowhere, especially in the amazon sales rankings !<br />Talking about my work doesn't mean I am immodest - I know very well that there are many, many better writers than me - but I have to do my bit to support the editors who have commissioned me and to attract readers.<br />Also, I was FIFTY when I got published so I am amazed and excited to have the opportunity to promote my work - which I thought for a long time would never come!<br />And finally, as writers if we don't believe - why should readers ?<br />Anna May ManganAnna Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14116772124748496194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-47638618241792756782009-07-28T18:49:50.233+01:002009-07-28T18:49:50.233+01:00Absolutely, Nuala!Absolutely, Nuala!Elizabeth Baineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17193751871434773972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33010980.post-48310248589174427752009-07-28T18:21:38.910+01:002009-07-28T18:21:38.910+01:00I am with you on this on both counts ELizabeth.
1)...I am with you on this on both counts ELizabeth.<br />1) I find 'boasting' difficult.<br />2) But I need to promote my work.<br />I've often felt the boasting issue was becasue it is very un-Irish and very un-Catholic to be proud of your achievements. Praise was seen as wrong and 'self praise is no praise' was a regualr childhood chant.<br />BUT, like you, I've realised I have to get my work and myself out there in order to get anywhere in this writing world. Hence my blog and my website. Both things I resisted doing for years. Now I really enjoy them!<br />One needs to strike a balance - I don't want to annoy people by going on about my work or achievements but I want my books to sell and most importantly, to be read.Group 8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07924947352624027079noreply@blogger.com