Made it back to the Writer’s Coffeehouse this month. It was a smaller crowd than usual, but that just meant we had more time to go in-depth on everyone’s questions :)
My notes are below. Many thanks to Mysterious Galaxy for the space, and to Henry Herz for hosting!
- publishers and writers of san diego: meet once a month in carlsbad about the business of self-publishing
- henry: doing a triple-launch in october at mysterious galaxy
- orange county children's book festival is in october
- san diego union tribune book festival is in august
- san diego state univ writers conference is in january 2019
- la jolla writers conference is in november
- snowflake pro: really good software for building a book pitch
- question: seeing problems with story in current first draft; go back and fixit now? or keep writing as-is?
- answer: write it as if it's fixed, but keep going; leave notes to go back and fix the earlier bits in later drafts
- new market: future-sf.com
- bootstrapping social media?
- henry: when he was getting started, interviewed successful authors and posted them on his blog
- whatever you do, try to find something that relates to writing and do that
- a way to kick-start the conversation on social media: ask people for recommendations (taco places, procedural movies, etc)
