Lynn Murphy's Blog – February 2012 Archive (5)

 I spend my days searching for ways to market The Time Of My Life to a broader audience. I had been hearing about book trailers, but only embarked on the process after reading an article in the March issue of The Writer Magazine (www.WriterMag.com)

I went with their 5 steps on how to make a book trailer. Luckily I had the windows movie making software installed, so it was just a matter of dragging photos and adding text-which took a couple of…

This post isn't really about promoting my book,TheTime Of My Life, but about the reason why I wrote it. The story first began to bloom in the February of my oldest son's seventh grade year. His younger brother's best friend had just comeover to spend the night with us and his mother mentioned that she had just signed Jacob up to run track with the local youth sports organization. Ian responded to Shannon's comment with "I want to run track!" We hadn't known he was…

Before last week, I hardly knew what twitter was. But everywhere my fellow authors were posting about tweeting. I admit that while I signed up for a twitter account on my own, I had to enlist my seventeen year old son to actually understand how to do it. He taught me how to hashtag (I didn't know, for example, that you don't space between the words in a hashtag.).But we were both surprised how many suggestive women starting following. (Perhaps they think The Time Of My Life refers to…

I've been having a lot of discussions with indie authors about develpoing your market and your target audience. While I am still defining where I need to be concentrating my time from a marketing standpoint for The Time Of My Life, I reflected on books for which I became someone's audience and why.

So here are some recent reads for me: Getting Inby Karen Stabiner. Its a book about five families and the lengths they have to go to to get their kids accepted to the…

I had a good day, publicity wise yesterday. My press release for The Time Of My Life was featured in a very nice article in The Citizen, the local newspaper where I live in a great little town south of Atlanta. text messages came all day from neighbors who read about my book over their morning coffee or as they shuffled through the paper while they read the mail after work. I posted the link to my facebook page and heard from a friend I had not seen in seventeen years who could…