Join us on Saturday, 30th January and work on your marketing strategy with our special guest presenter, Tracee Lydia Garner.
Please note that we’ll also be voting in our elected officers. This will take place after the presentation.
MEETING DETAILS
Saturday, January 30th
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Martha Washington Library (Room 14A/B)
6614 Fort Hunt Road
Alexandria, VA 22307-1799
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
You ARE a writer and as much as you’d like to simply stay in your cave and write, marketing is a necessary evil that you will have to tackle at some point if you want to get your book out there. You need a strategy and to be prepared. Preparation is half the battle to success. We will discuss all the different platforms for print, ads, social media campaigns to get your book out there. This presentation will also provide you with a sample marketing plan and give you some practical and low-costs tips to make any of the marketing efforts you choose, work for you.
PRESENTER BIO
Tracee Lydia Garner is a speaker, private writing coach and author of five books. Born and raised in Northern Virginia, she holds a degree in Communications from Old Dominion University. She tremendously enjoys the written and spoken word and prior to entertaining full-length novels, was a contributor to her alma mater’s campus literary magazine for her poetry.
Writing her first novel at 23, Tracee submitted it to a nation-wide contest hosted by BET Books, then the largest publisher of African-American fiction, where her story entitled Family Affairs, beat out hundreds of other contenders, winning the grand prize, a monetary advance, an all expense paid trip to NYC to accept her award with leading publishing professionals and a contract for publication. She signed a book deal for two more titles. Tracee has been writing since she was in elementary school. She teaches Romance Novel Writing and How to Write the Novel at the college level and has done so for ten years. Tracee uses a wheelchair due to having a form of Muscular Dystrophy, a neuromuscular disease. Anchored Hearts is Tracee’s fifth book.
Website: http://www.teegarner.com/
Follow Tracee on Twitter @Teegarner