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Pauline Baird Jones
Please join me in a big Word Museum and PromoBeats welcome to Pauline Baird Jones. Moe: Please tell us what name(s) you write under, the name of your book(s), the genre of your book(s), and the formats.
Moe: What do you do to promote your book(s)? Pauline
Baird Jones: Moe: What method or methods of promotion have you used that have not worked well? Pauline Baird Jones: Well, personal appearances are probably my least effective as far as sales go, but I enjoy them the most. I love talking to readers. I am a reader, so I love talking books with my own kind. I've had mixed results with contests. What I've learned is keep it simple. Choose items or prizes that are easy to mail or deliver. I had these cool, original prints that a friend sold me. The winner was in Canada and I had a terrible time getting them safely to her. After that, I've chosen gift certificates or copies of books. I find books make great prizes, because the people who enter are usually readers. Contests conducted as part of groups have worked much better for me in terms of promotion. Moe: Where did you learn how to promote your books? Is there a special place or places where you find good promotion information? Pauline Baird Jones: I learned everything from other writers. My beginning steps were guided by EPIC (The Electronically Published Internet Connection) members. I also belong to Tobeez and Word Museum. Mentoring is a time honored tradition in all fields of endeavor. Writing is no exception. Moe: Do you like to promote? Or do you find it frustrating? Pauline Baird Jones: No, I don't like to promote. It takes time away from writing and I've never been comfortable promoting myself. Now give me someone else's book and I'm cool, but when I push my own work, I'm always aware that I'm asking others to invest in my words! Scary stuff! That said, I love talking to readers. My favorite times are when I can be face to face with readers, just talking books. Moe: Have you been interviewed as an author? By which mediums? Pauline Baird Jones: I've had some radio interviews, set up for by PJ Nunn. They were very fun. Never been on tv. Was interviewed for a newspaper once, years ago about a play production (I wrote the play). It was interesting. <g> Moe: Do you have any good promotion tips for your fellow authors that you would like to share? Pauline Baird Jones: My best tip is to be positive, be helpful and be friendly. To everyone. You never know who is watching. An author can't afford to behave badly in any venue. It makes it hard sometimes, but when I get annoyed, I just funnel into my books. <g> Moe: Please add anything else here you'd like to say. Pauline: Keep your perspective. It is so easy to get sucked into the promotion rounds and forget what you're real job is, which is to write. It's also easy to lose the joy of writing in the grind that is the business aspects of writing. If you don't stay grounded and aren't clear on why you're in this business, you'll lose your creative soul. If you're in this only for the money, you're in the wrong business. I try to keep promotion down to one day a week, though sometimes it spills over into other days. It's a beast that needs to be constantly kept under control. <wg> Moe: Please add a short bio, your personal website url, and your publisher(s) url for your book's page(s). Pauline Baird Jones: Award-winning novelist and screenwriter, Pauline Baird Jones was born and raised in Wyoming, but currently calls Texas home--after an eighteen year sojourn in Louisiana. Pauline's been a fictional killer since the first Gulf War. She claims it helps her to stay mellow. "It's very cathartic," she asserts. "If someone annoys me, I just smile, then make plans to kill them in my next book." While people in her life might wonder if they've ever been her fictional victims, Pauline plans to take that information with her to the grave. Not even her husband of 28 years knows, though he suspects he's been her victim more than once. You can find out more about Pauline and her books at her official website or email her. Some of Pauline's books: * *
Pig
in a Park (aka The Spy Who Kissed Me) 06/03 |
Pauline
Baird Jones: I write under my own name, with variations
of Pauline B. Jones and Pauline Baird Jones. My genres are
romantic suspense, romantic mystery and comedy romantic mystery.
My books are mostly available in all formats except audio.
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