What book marketing techniques have been most effective for you?
We spend a good portion of the year travelling to different conventions all over the US and I've always found that selling books in person to people who show up at our tables is the best technique. As for online, there's so many different things to do and they all work together. I think the most effective technique is to just keep going. It may not seem like it's working, but when you stop then sales stop. So you have to keep promoting in a bunch of different ways.
Describe your desk
My main desk at home is actually used for sewing, not writing. There's two sewing machines on one side of the huge table and a drawer of current projects on the other. There's plenty of room for me to lay out fabric pieces, and have a laptop set up so I can watch Netflix while I'm sewing. And I'm surrounded by accessories and tools on all sides, within an easy reach.
As for writing - because that's probably what you're here for - I prefer to either be on a computer with my chrome book super early in the morning when there's almost no sound anywhere or at my 'real life' job during breaks. I don't really have a desk for writing, as I write better under a deadline. If I had a specific place, it would be too easy to go there any time. Which all seems counterproductive, but it works quite well.
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