Marketing the Muse: A Resource Center for Writers

MARKETING THE MUSE.com virals its way into the e-mailboxes of writers on the road to publication.

MarketingtheMuse.com is a work in progress.

In time, writers that visit MarketingtheMuse.com will refine the focus just as writers in my real time workshops do.  Please consider it your site with me as benevolent dictator. Visit often. Tell me what you want to know more about. Look for postings of contests, giveaways and interviews with industry Pros sharing what they've learned along publishing's highway. 

MARKETINGTHEMUSE.COM OVERVIEW 

• Publishing news worth knowing gleaned from websites the Pros check daily. 
• Self publishing's inroads
• Annual book convention highlights
• Tips: How to hire a professional editor: Who? When? Why? How much?
• Opportunities: Query letter sessions & contests
• Agent speak
• Editor speak
• MarketingtheMuse.com visitors' blog speak 

Beyond this, I don't have a view but I don't need to see the entire road to begin this journey, a lesson I learned from Anne Lamott when she spoke at SBWC in 1995. It was the year after her bestselling book on craft, Bird by Bird, debuted.  She was working on a novel and didn't know the ending. She quoted a noted novelist who compared novel writing to driving at night down a dark, winding road. You just need enough light to see what's ahead.

Let me know what you think of MarketingtheMuse.com. I'll let you know about opportunities to participate. Also coming soon, a DVD that incorporates two Marketing the Muse workshops and features literary agent Katharine Sands, Borders Book executive Kate Schwab and bestselling author Carol Kline.   

Until we meet again, be well and keep writing.

Posted by Marla Miller