What Every Indie Author Needs To Be Doing Right Now

If you are like me, marketing yourself isn’t really your thing. You can write a good story, but not promote yourself worth a darn.

I became an independent author not because I couldn’t publish traditionally, but because I just wanted more control over my own work. I also have enough rejection notices (many of them canned) to fill my house a few times over.

Don’t let me get started about the “glass ceiling” and the “gatekeepers of art”.

Sheesh.

I’ve been working at the self-promotion game for some time, but lately I realized that I really wasn’t doing enough. I could use the excuse that I’m a full time teacher and father of four teens (which is a pretty good excuse), but what it all boils down to is that I’m spending too much time trying to leverage social media and not enough time on real-world, flesh-and-bones networking.

Last weekend I attended a local free comic book convention where I met with several artists and writers, each of them firmly grounded with roots in my home state of Oklahoma. What I discovered is that there are a lot of successful artists and writers right near me who are much more willing to work and collaborate with me than some stranger in New York or California. All of them have the desire to not only promote themselves but promote each other. We all share that commonality.

If you are an indie author (and you probably are if you are reading this blog) the best…