Fran Orenstein's Page

As you can all see I have not been on this website in a while.  Well that is all about to change.  I have a new company called Dressing Your Book to market myself and my books.  That means there will be a lot more information coming out about my books and where I will be doing events, etc. so you can all come out and visit when you are in the area.  I look forward to hearing from you all and seeing you at the events I…

The bane of a writer's existence is the amount of time spent marketing her book. It takes time away from writing and can be a daunting task for someone who isn't technologically astute. Lots of people find it difficult to market yourself, which is what a writer must do to become known to readers. I finally bit the bullet and hired The World of Ink to do a two-week public relations on-line tour. They know the blog sites and where the on-line market is for my books. I will be posting a daily…

Elitist attitudes toward self-publishing and POD or small press publishing is still rearing it's ugly head. Yes, there are a multitude of writers out there who should take up art or music instead, but they abound in traditional publishing, too. I'm sure many readers have opened a book published by one of the five major publishing houses and closed it after a few pages; badly written, boring, slow, poorly executed plot, editorial errors, ad infinitum, but nonetheless published. On the other…