One task of a new author is to help generate positive online coverage/mentions of one's new book. Some are less within the author's control than others of course, and some are more fun than others.
Since spring (coinciding with the release of Starting with Goodbye from University of Nevada Press) I've been writing guest posts and answering interview questions from literary journals, bloggers, reporters and freelancers. Mostly, I've had a great time. I'm still having a good time.
While the goal is to keep the book in front of people's eyes, one of the more satisfying side benefits for me has been that many of the resulting pieces double as useful tips, advice, and information for other writers.
The book launch, book tour, and general book promo craziness dominated my days for months, meaning I didn't have time to keep offering writing thoughts here at this blog, so whenever possible, I tried to tie in book publicity with literary citizenship.
I've meant to share this sooner, but life piled on...Anyway, here's a round-up of some coverage from the last five months -- only the pieces that I think other writers might find useful. (If you want to see everything, check out the Media Mentions page.)
Guest posts and articles on writing issues:
How Lit Journal Publications Paved the Way to a Published Memoir (at The Review Review)
How to Add Humor to a Sad Memoir (at The Memoir Project/Marion Roach Smith)
Publishing with a Small (Traditional) or University Press: When it Might be Right for You and Your Book (at Nonfiction Authors Association blog)
Writing About Family in Memoir: Fairness Counts (at The Writers Circle blog)
If You Give a Writer a Book Contract, She's Going to Want...Everything (at Women Writers, Women's Books)
Writers Recommend...for Writer's Block (at Poets & Writers)
My First (Disastrous) Writing Retreat (at The Quivering Pen)
Interviews (only those that cover writer advice, tips, insight, how-to's from my writing/publishing experience):
In Search of the Right Structure (at Author Accelerator on Medium/Jennie Nash)
Author's Notebook: Nine Tips on Writing Memoir (at The Whole Megillah)
Ruminations Interview (at Under the Sun, which published one of the original essays that became an important chapter in the book)
A Conversation with Lisa Romeo (at Literary Mama)
An Interview (at Proximity's True blog)
Author Interview Q/A (at the blog of Caroline Leavitt)
Be Well, Write Well Interview (at DIY MFA)
Writers in the Trenches: Q/A on how everything before prepared me for the memoir (at Fay Rapaport DesPres's blog)
A Conversation (at the Sunlight Press)
Q/A (at the blog of Christi Craig)
Podcasts (with in-depth dives into nonfiction writing craft):
The Creative Nonfiction podcast (w/Brendan O'Meara) - Episode # 98 - Lisa Romeo on the Power of Paper Habits
Write the Book podcast - # 508 (w/Kim MacQueen)
The Ish podcast (w/Cameron Dezen Hammon) - Episode # 8 - Grieving-ish Part II
And just for fun...
Spotlight (at Publishers Weekly)
How We Spend Our Days: Lisa Romeo (at Catching Days blog)
Becoming a Published Memoirist at 58 (at Empowering Women in Midlife)
I hope some of these will prove useful for your own writing practice, writing life, writing challenges. As book mania settles down, I hope to be back here at the blog more regularly, with the spotlight once again trained on passing along good writing life advice and lessons learned from experience -- mine and others'.
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