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The Marketing Salsa

By Helen WalshPosted on November 12, 2022Posted in WritingTagged pull focus, writer-in-residence, writing life

*This was published in Open Book as part of my writer-in-residence appointment. You’ve finished a book. Congrats! Now, you’ve got a book deal, decided to self-publish or signed with a hybrid publisher (the ‘pay to play’ option, which provides some editorial and marketing support, but at a fee). The hard work of marketing is about to begin, and you’ll need to become an author-entrepreneur, regardless of your publisher, or whether you’ve engaged some freelance PR help yourself. It’s […]

The Writing Life

By Helen WalshPosted on November 1, 2022Posted in WritingTagged helen walsh, publishing, Sylvia Fraser, writer-in-residence, writing life

*This article was published by Open Book during my writer-in-residence appointment. It’s late October and I’m writing this on a cold, rainy day after learning my friend, the writer Sylvia Fraser, has passed away. Such profoundly sad news. Author Sylvia Fraser. Sylvia was three decades older than me and more alive than almost anyone I knew. She backpacked alone around India for three months in her sixties. She took ayahuasca (a plant-based psychedelic) in the Amazonian jungle. She demonstrated […]