I am soooo bad!
Yes, I really am bad.
It’s been ages since I posted, and I’m truly sorry. Life has been a little complicated of late - ever since a crazy person side-swiped my car and left me with whiplash.
I was sitting quietly, waiting for the traffic to clear so I could do a left-hand turn, when this person smacked the side of my car. She was so close I couldn’t open my door even a fraction. According to my GP, the impact jerked me side-ways, which is how the whiplash occurred.
I am defnitely not happy, particularly since my cute little car is only one-year old, and is the first brand-new car I’ve ever owned. <sigh> The repairer has promised to make it good as new. I hope he keeps his promise.
Okay, now some good news…
Next week I’m off to the Romance Writers of New Zealand writer’s conference. This will be my first trip to NZ in over thirty years, and I’m really looking forward to it.
I’m going there as a writer, but I’m also going as an editor for The Wild Rose Press. I will be giving a talk on publishing and TWRP, and will also be taking pitches from writers. This will be a new experience for me, and one I’m a little nervous about.
I’ve organised my schedule so I will have some time to just laze around for a day or so after I arrive, and also don’t have to rush off after the conference ends. I’m looking forward to spending time with cyber friends I’ve made over the years, but have never met personally.
I’ve booked into a couple of workshops at the conference, but from my perspective, networking is one of the most important issues at conferences. I’m in the process of getting all my gear ready to go, and that includes my marketing materials. I’m currently awaiting bookmarks, which are being printed as I type. If you’re ever lucky enough to attend a conference, either for writers or readers, bookmarks are a really inexpensive way to get your message out to loads of people in the shortest possible time.
One disclaimer with bookmarks is to try and target the right audience. For this particular conference, the audience is romance writers. So the bookmarks are double-sided, with Writer2Writer on one side, and the new romance sub-site on the other. That way I’m specifically targeting romance authors, and on the other side I also promote the ‘general’ site. Win/Win.
I’ll try to pop in again before I leave next week, but if I don’t, I’ll definitely post details of the conference on my return.
Oh, and if you’re going to the conference, make sure you come up and say ‘hi’!
Cheryl
Tags: Cheryl Wright, marketing materials, promotion for writers., Romance Writers of New Zealand, writer's conferences