Jennifer Lane Books Blog

Welcome to October's Insecure Writer's Support Group, hosted by Alex Cavanaugh. Join us HERE .  This month's question: When do you know your story is ready? My answer is simple: WHEN MY EDITOR FINISHES!  I've worked with the same bomdiggity editor --Jessica Royer Ocken-- for all seven of my novels, and I absolutely trust her ability to polish the manuscript. Then my amazing book designer, Coreen Montagna, swoops in to make it pretty.  I'm lucky I met Jessica and Coreen, along with my astute critique partner, Nicki Elson, through my publisher. Now that I self-publish, I feel so grateful for the team that readies my story for publication. I manage to publish one book a year, and 2016's book launch (Spiked) happened October 1st. Once your story is ready to be published, how do you market your novel? I'll share a couple of strategies I've tried. Facebook Party. My zesty marketing assistant Mitsy Princell convinced me to host...

J oin the celebration on FB by clicking  HERE !! Aug. 31 6 PM Angela Mcpherson 7 PM Tia Silverthorne Bach 8 PM Twyla Turner 9 PM Jennifer Lane  (that's ME! stop on by 9 PM EST) Sept. 1 6 PM A.M. Wallace 7 PM C.M. Stunich 8 PM Heather C. Myers 9 PM Brenda Pandos Sept 2 6 PM Mary Ting / M. Clarke 7 PM Alexandrea Weis 8 PM Erin Hayes 9 PM Wendy L Owens Sept 3 7 PM Heidi McLaughlin 8 PM Lila Felix   9 PM CM Doporto 10 PM N.L. Gervasio   Sept 4 6 PM H.D. Gordon 7 PM S.I. Hayes 8 PM Jaidis Shaw 9 PM Juniper Grove Book Solutions a Rafflecopter giveaway

A big thank you to Alex Cavanaugh for starting the... Insecure Writers Support Group . Today I'll share an idea to make yucky marketing more fun: Create a MARKETING TEAM with fellow authors! Do you feel uncomfortable tooting your own horn? Do you lack the time to keep your books in the public eye? My pub sisters at Omnific Publishing decided to overcome those problems by designating one author a week for some major book pimpage. How does it work? The designated author creates some marketing materials and shares them with our closed Facebook group. Then other authors in the group promote that author throughout the week.  Here are the various marketing strategies: 1) Tweets . The author creates tweets like: Friendship is the best kind of ship. #NA #Navy #swimming #romance STREAMLINE by @JenLaneBooks http://amzn.to/1928OMJ #HotMenInUniform ...and her fellow authors tweet like crazy. 2) Goodreads . We "like" the 4 star and ...