Record-Keeping for Indies
I originally wrote this for the Dark Side Down Under's regular Magic Thursday Feature , but I've added a little bit more and thought it worth repeating here. Enjoy. Promotion. Regardless of whether or not you’re independently or traditionally published, it’s a nightmare, a time-eater, a word-creation-time thief. But there are ways of reducing the amount of time you spend preparing each promotion and blog post. The simplest of these is to create an Excel spreadsheet or Word document capturing the information you’re going to find yourself needing to repeat for each and every title you produce. Arranging it in alphabetical order makes it easier to find in a list, or document. The following is a list of the information I find myself looking for every time I write a post to promote a particular title: Title: Well, duh. Helps you find it on the spreadsheet or Word document Author Name or Pen Name: for those of you who write under different ones. Trust me, when you’re in a...