Welcome to My Worlds: A Bipolar Christian Tells All

Michelle here again. I’ve always been a bit of a marketing whiz. Ever since I was a kid I’d sold the most cookies for camp, the most newspaper subscriptions, the most greeting cards, etc. If there was a contest I’d take the bull by the horns, sell like crazy, and win it…every time! Seriously. I guess I’m competitive, eh?  

Well, now that I need to sell my debut novel and market the online magazine I’ve had to pull out all of those former skills and dust them off. I guess I’m doing okay because things are coming together very well and the word is getting out there even better than expected. I keep getting all of these great marketing ideas and they are working out very well, but like KFC’s special recipe, I ain’t sharing them all with you or it would spoil the fun.

I ‘ve even been granted the title of Marketing Director for Sheaf House (the new small press I’m published with) and Marketing Director for Christian Fiction Online Magazine. Crazy, huh? But it’s true. It just comes naturally for me. The funny thing is that you would think it would be a huge advantage for publishers to want to take me on as an author this day in age when authors have to work so hard to market themselves. You think they’d see that I’m not a wallflower who is meek and can write great books but not tell a soul about them. Well, that’s just not me. I guess Sheaf House benefits most from this. Sheaf House has majorly talented authors (more you don’t even know about yet) and the whole world is going to know about them very soon…once the books start selling like hotcakes.  

Even in these tough economic times it’s still possible to succeed in a sluggish market. What you need is enthusiastic people to represent the product who genuinely believe in it and want to tell the world what they are missing out on if they let the opportunity pass them by. That’s me. The manic marketer. I told you it describes me perfectly. What I’ve discovered about myself is that if I’m doing something in my area of giftedness and God is behind it, then whatever I’m doing gives me energy. I’m telling you, Sheaf House it’s the best thing to hit the edgy Christian fiction lovers market in a long time, and you’re all going to see that very soon. I am also very excited (and proud) of the online magazine. It’s going to be so hot people are going to slap their foreheads and ask themselves why they hadn’t thought of it first. Trust me, you don’t want to miss it! That’s it for today. Whew! I even tired myself out describing that aspect of my life. Peace!

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