Next Meeting
Yes, They are Your Friends: Cyber-Promo Made Easy!
Marie-Claude Bourque
Date: February 9, 2010 7-9 pm
Location: Lake Hills Library, 15228 Lake Hills Blvd, Bellevue, 98007
*** Marie-Claude has generously donated a Critique of a Synopsis and Query to our monthly Raffle! What other Goodies await in this month’s raffle? Come to the Meeting and Find Out!!!
DESCRIPTION:
Straight from the American Title V promotion trenches, Marie-Claude Bourque shares her experience and tips to promote your work effectively online, and touches on balancing promotion with your creative side.
Learn how to draw on your own strength to create an effective promotional campaign, determine what level of promotion is most effective at this stage in your career and learn to deal with the effects your public promotion life has on your private creative writer life.
Marie-Claude will specifically touch on differentional strategies to use for each social network, including what to do with book trailers, how to touch readers at a personal level and how to avoid the over-promoting syndrome.
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Marie-Claude Bourque is the winner of the American Title V and the author of the upcoming Dorchester release, gothic paranormal romance Ancient Whispers. She also co-created the writer inspiration blog Musetracks and is a member of RWA and SFWA.
A French Canadian, she holds 4 college degrees including a BS in Physics from McGill University and a PhD in Oceanography from the University of British Columbia. She is a former research scientist, translator, fitness professional, an avid knitter, reader and busy mother of two boys. She currently resides in Seattle, WA.