Back to Promotion

With the end of my blog tour for Not as it Seems my online promotion is slowing down. I have a winner to have a character named after her in the next Deputy Tempe Crabtree series--and I've come to some conclusions about how I'll go about a blog tour for my next mystery.

Now, with the holiday season coming, I'm booked for several book and craft fairs.

This coming weekend I'll have a table at the Great Valley Bookfest in Manteca. (Saturday, October 10 from 10 to 4.) It's held outside near the Bass Pro store.This will be my 2nd time there. I'm also giving a talk at 10:30 a.m. about writing and sustaining a mystery series.

The following weekend on Saturday, October 17, from 10 to 4, I'll be in my publisher's booth at the big art festival in Visalia (downtown near the Bank of America). It's my second year for this one too.

On Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7, from 10 to 5, I'm participating in the Porterville Art Association's Holiday Boutique with a table in the Porterville Art Gallery, on Main St.

I may have a booth at the White Barn in Springville on Saturday, December 5, but that isn't finalized yet.

This is a great time to take advantage of the fact people are buying gifts for their friends and family and what's more unique than an autographed book.

Marilyn

Deciding What Books to Take to a Book or Craft Fair

This is always a dilemma for me because I have copies of every book I've ever published and there are lots of them.

Of course I'll take my latest Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery, Dispel the Mist, and a few copies of others in that series. I also have copies of No Sanctuary, the latest in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series--so I should bring earlier books too. There are a lot of readers who want to begin with the first in the series.

If I'm doing a festival on the coast, I'll bring copies of books that are set on the coast. When I'm doing books in my part of California, I want to be sure to bring books that are set here.

I always wonder if I should bring any copies of my Christian horror--but when I do, I always sell a few.

One thing I've learned over the years, you really can't tell who is going to buy a book--nor what book they are going to buy.

When I'm doing a festival or signing near where I live, I'm pretty confident that most will want my latest book because of publicity I've had in the paper. However, even then, sometimes a person will buy a book that I certainly didn't expect them to be interested in.

A big example is my psychological horror, Wishing Makes It So. It's about a very bad little girl. I'm surprised by how many mother's of little girls buy that book.

Never judge a book by a cover nor a book buyer by how they look.

Marilyn
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