If You’re a Fiction Writer, You Absolutely Should Be Blogging
A guide to marketing yourself and your work.
Every fiction writer should be a blogger.
There. I said it.
Here’s the difference blogging made for me: When I sold my first book to a major publisher, I wasn’t blogging, I didn’t have an email list. I believed the narrative that fiction writers don’t need a platform.
And, to be honest, I was relieved by that idea. I didn’t want to market. I wanted to write. I bet you’ve heard that before. Like in your own thoughts.
So, I trusted that there wasn’t anything I needed to do to sell my books, except for write them. Only problem was — that book didn’t sell very well.
I sold another book, a few years later, and this time I knew that creating my audience was my responsibility. No one else was going to do it for me. So I’d started blogging and building an email list.
That book went out into the world with about 1000 pre-sales. That’s a big deal. It made a major difference.
If you’re a writer, you should be blogging.
Blogging gives you the chance to publish regularly — weekly, at least. Maybe even daily. It also puts you in control of the…
