For all writers, poets, photographers, artists who would like to get a promotional blog post together, this is for you.
Using the contact form makes it all rather cloak and dagger, so to simplify things for those of you with questions about what to include in your post, here are a few guidelines you might want to follow.
1) Introduce yourself in whatever way you prefer, personal or professional, and give us an idea of what you do.
2) Choose a sample of your work—prose, poems, photographs, illustrations—that does you credit. It can be as long as you like. Book excerpts are fine, just bear in mind that reading a lot of unbroken text on the computer is tiring, and you might lose readers if it’s too long.
3) Send any images that are relevant, like book covers, illustrations, author pic if you want. Again, be reasonable. Please don’t send clippings images—neither I nor WordPress can cope with them.
4) The point is to promote you, so please send links to your blog/website, social media sites where you are active, purchase links, Amazon author page.
Send all the material you would like to include in your post to:
jane.dougherty@dbmail.com
In theory, I’ll get back to you with an idea of when your post will go live. In practice, I probably won’t know until about a week beforehand. This is so organised for me you wouldn’t believe it
Jane Dougherty Writes 
😀 Well done Jane – see my post today about joining my Authors Resources Central and apply 😀
Can’t find your latest post. I think I must be getting in through a side door or somehting 😦
Here’s the link Jane:
Thanks Chris. I have no sense of direction at all! I’ll get onto it.
Looks like a fab idea Jane, good luck with this 🙂
I’m getting quite an eclectic mix. It will be worthwhile keeping an eye on these posts.
Sorry to be ages in replying, Just getting up to date with things now that I have completed three short stories for a book. 🙂
Well done!
Phew! We shall see if I’ve been wasting my time. Ta everso.
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#Authors: Promo opps!
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This is really great, and frankly I need all the promotion I can get, so lets hope I am organised enough to do this !
To do what? Send me an exerpt and a bit of a blurb & bio? If you wrote a book Peter, I think you’re capable 🙂 Or do you mean about letting other people invade your blog? That’s much more difficult. It helps to be organised and I’m not. And to be technically fluent and I’m not. It’s a challenge though and we’re supposed to need those. Aren’t we?