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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3440615" data-attributes="member: 5171">ha-gieden, those are some wonderful self-promotion ideas.If you don't mind me asking, which publisher are you using?Whenever the publication train rolls around, I'm hoping that the blog will come in handy. (Linked in my .sig.) Until then, it's a good place for me to bounce ideas off people (and talk about non-writing stuff -- work is pretty big right now, since I'm there six days a week).Last thing I'll mention: cons. There are some very good ones out there -- the ones that are more aimed at writers than readers. On the U.S. west coast, Potlatch is a great one. I've also had really good experiences at WisCon. I believe that both of those cons have agent pitch sessions for which you can sign up: essentially, a good professional agent (a member of the association whose name I'm blanking on at the moment) sits for an hour or two and hears pitch after pitch from people.The agent isn't really likely to sign you up, of course, but she might well be interested enough to ask you to send her the manuscript so that she can review it later. More importantly, she provides feedback right there about what leapt out at her as cool and interesting, and where you lost her. It's a great learning experience, and if nothing else, it gets you more comfortable with condensing your 800-page fantasy epic to an elevator pitch -- the thirty-second spiel that you could bring out if you found yourself in an elevator with a major agent or publisher and had exactly that much time to get them interested in your book.Anyway, good luck! Can't wait to hear how things go!</blockquote>

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