I started this blog series for two reasons: to help me collect my emotions during my debut year, and to create a helpful guide for the sparkling debuts after me. Tonight’s post leans heavily on the latter, which is a perfect segue to my first point…

Why. For the love of God. Are there not…more…guides…FOR MARKETING AS A TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED DEBUT AUTHOR???

Don’t get me wrong, there are a few resources out there. And there’s my publicist, who’s great. But her job is to handle the background...