I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

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  From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting publi

• M. J. Rose:

  Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if

• M. J. Rose:

  Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of

• M. J. Rose:

  Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it co

• M. J. Rose:

  Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has comi

• M. J. Rose:

  Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to th

• M. J. Rose:

  We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and libr

• M. J. Rose:

  PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and

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  With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that

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  Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love