{"id":158,"date":"2016-10-14T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolscorner.ca\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T21:17:53","slug":"14-amees-story-is-written-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/14-amees-story-is-written-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"14. Amee’s Story is Written – Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/a> Amee helping to promote the book Amee’s Story<\/em> at an event and a table of books, along with a newspaper article about the book at a book fair. <\/p>\n

“Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what you have done, but nobody else does.” Madi Preda<\/p>\n

I knew that people needed to know my book was published, it was available for them to read but how do I let them know? I love telling stories. I had now written a story. Now what? I realized that when I spoke to ladies groups and later camps I could have books available for those who wanted more of the story. But who else might need to read this story and be encouraged or be inspired to share a story of their own? \"img_4523\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

I still don’t know all the answers to these questions and often feel I am not doing a good job of telling others about the book, the process to get to this point or what God has done in our lives. Yet opportunities present themselves, often when I least expect them. My job is to be ready to share, to listen, to present the book. <\/p>\n

It takes being willing to share a story orally and then the written form. It takes knowing how to shorten a story for an interview and giving more details in a longer presentation. The key is to keep telling the story. <\/p>\n

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing regardless of how they published.” Jo Linsdell\"can-stock-photo_csp27925000\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you written a book? How do you market it and let people know it exists? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amee helping to promote the book Amee’s Story at an event and a table of books, along with a newspaper article about the book at a book fair. “Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what you have done, but nobody else does.” Madi Preda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.carolscorner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}