Mechelle is doing Much musing on the idea of self-promotion

It used to be something that seemed, well … kind of gauche. Or at least it was to me and most other writers I knew. We’d never say, “Oh, by the way, did you read that story I wrote?”

We’d roll our eyes at those writers who might have done that. Self-promotion was almost seen as a character flaw. We were writers, not salespeople. Hey, the story was published. If it was good enough and people were interested, they would find it. Maybe somebody who liked it would pass it on – by word of mouth or, as technology advanced, by e-mail or message boards. That was OK … but we weren’t going to beat our own drums.

Wow, how stupid were we?