Oklahoma Writers & Authors: TULSA NIGHTWRITERS

4/7/08

TULSA NIGHTWRITERS

One of the largest writers' groups in OK is the Tulsa NightWriters with over 100 members. They were featured in Oklahoma Magazine for the month of April. You can see the article and photo (you have to let the photo at the top of the page cycle to a pic of five people dressed in black--that's us!). The URL is http://www.okmag.com/ . Gloria Teague Shirley is the editor of the TNW's newsletter, NightScripts.

THREE RULES FOR BETTER MARKETING

1. Develop a vibrant blurb to describe your book to someone in a couple of sentences. If you can't do that - revisit your work. The writer unable to do this often has a problem with their book - so see how well you can define (in selling terms) your work.
2. Establish "talking points" about your book: what sets it apart? what sets you apart? why should someone buy your work?
3. "Lattice" your work to other venues and events. Do a web of your book and identify all the parts and how you might market the book to those sub-sections.

NOTE:
Not just self-publishing authors are faced with the need to become better at marketing their own work - surveying the recent edition of WRITER'S MARKET shows even some "big name" houses are expecting their authors to be their own best promoters.

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4/7/08

TULSA NIGHTWRITERS