To Market to Market – by Ruth Bonetti

Hands up who loves Book PR? 

Quite… Don’t rush me. 

 

Let’s try a new slant. 

Create opportunities to interest potential readers. If they don’t know about your books it’s no wonder sales languish. 

 

Opportunities for a live book launch dried in past years. Many creative authors offer virtual book launches. Offer prizes. Showcase. 

 

BOOK SIGNINGS

Talk with book shop colleagues like Kirsten Hart, Store Manager at Koorong Books Toowoomba. Where Anne Hamilton along with others and myself  will share a signing session on Saturday April 29 at 11am, Centrepoint on James, Shop 3, 37 Prescott St, Toowoomba.

Get together with writing buddies to brainstorm how you can create an event. After such a productive session, fuelled by much coffee, Brisbane Omega Showcase emerged. Put August 11-12 in your diary for a writer's conference that showcases local talent and is also a learning experience. At the Coopers Colonial Motel at Acacia Ridge. Look out for some announcements, TBC. 

 

MULTI-TASK

Is it just me, or is this normal? Do we all burn pots on the stove while cribbing a little creative time? Deadlines like this blog by 5am Wednesday…If only authors had time to focus on the next w-i-p! Reality is bread and butter work intrudes. I reassure myself that my subconscious ticks away while I’m busy preparing for music performances next weekend with Noosa Orchestra. 

If you are able, come surf at Noosa (while I crib last minute practice) then enjoy uplifting music after.

 

PEOPLE TIME And family time. 

The demands vary as offspring grow older, as some are blessed to embark on grand parenting. So that book baby can wait. To everything there is a SEASON.

And so it is for any creative, whatever their medium. Indulge me while I share our excitement for eldest son’s break-through world premiere of his composition in the Sydney Opera House. In a glowing review: “Paul-Antoni Bonetti’s The Bright Day Clarion Calls the Quaking Earth, premiering as part of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 50 Fanfares Project that commissioned new music from 50 Australian composers, was an unexpected gem...a powerful, cinematic, and instantly likeable piece of music that didn’t feel out of place among these American greats."

                                                        Photo Credit: Megan Bonetti

 

This is the son who initially didn't pursue music teaching – until he met his lovely wife and embraced fatherhood and a mortgage. Who doubtless pulled many an all-light vigil to complete and finesse his composition. 

 

The Chinese bamboo tree during the first five years of its growth, puts out a tiny shoot which needs regular watering.  In that time, all of its development is underground and, to all intents and purposes, it seems like absolutely nothing is happening. However, at the end of five years, it suddenly puts on a fantastic growth spurt and in a space of five weeks, it grows to over 30 metres tall.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. 

And TRUST YOUR SEASONS  

ABOUT Ruth BONETTI 

ABOUT Ruth Bonetti

Ruth's many earlier books give practical support for confident performance of words and music, drawing on a lifetime of experience as a musician and educator. Her Trilogy Midnight Sun to Southern Cross has won awards including the CALEB Nonfiction prize. 

Available: Amazon, Bookdepository etc. Autographed copies from ruthbonetti.com and http://www.ruthbonetti.com/burn-my-letters/ 

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Ruth founded Omega Writers in 1992.