How do you know whether your book might benefit from a particular technique (i.e. a book tour, a blog tour, a social media campaign)?

Next post in my series inspired by the panel I spoke on at #AWP2026 is going to be based on this question from moderator @cristinadeptula.bsky.social

What do you think? If you want my answer, subscribe at wordpressblogsforwriters.com/subscribe

#BookMarketing #AuthorSky #BookPromotion

Today's email was about how to identify your book's likely audience. Next week I'll share how to discern whether your book might benefit from a particular technique.

#AWP2026

Nice!
#AWP2026 #LatinxPoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingAwards #CantoMundo #PoetryMatters #LiteraryRecognition #LatinxWriters

Here's the obligatory #AWP haul! #awp2026

It was such a pleasure talking with everybody at #AWP2026 about our host college’s MFA in Creative Writing. We are thankful for their support. Applications are OPEN until March 15th!

To learn more and apply 👉 citycollegemfa.commons.gc.cuny.edu

⭐ Flyer designed by our PCP intern, Nazaughn James.

A color desaturated photo of a person with curly hair and glasses playing guitar on a stage lit by strings of lights and overseen by enormous skeleton puppets in the rafters.

A color desaturated photo of a person with curly hair and glasses playing guitar on a stage lit by strings of lights and overseen by enormous skeleton puppets in the rafters

A photo of a person with red curly hair and glasses playing guitar on a stage lit by strings of lights and overseen by enormous skeleton puppets in the rafters. Her head is canted to the left as she sings. There is a skeleton in a black cloak listening above with its head at the same angle.

A photo of a person with curly hair and glasses playing guitar on a stage lit by strings of lights and overseen by enormous puppets in the rafters. The entire photo is tilted so that the rafters look like upright bookcases and the musician is defying gravity as the stage spills her to the left.

I wanted to show you all these photos that @chriscampbell.bsky.social took at the amazing Black Cherry Puppet Theater #AWP2026 showcase of musician-authors last weekend.

We loved meeting y'all at AWP! We received questions about joining our team so we wanted to extend an invitation for Associate Editors to join our team. Please send an email to ihlr@gmail.com with a brief application

#litmag #awp2026

two stacks of books on a shelf, with Taco Bell Quarterly As Seen In The Library Of Congress prominently displayed

wrote about #AWP2026

www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658198

#AWP2026

5 women of different ethnicities and over 50 years old, standing in a conference room against a beige wall

a wide-angle shot of the audience, filling a large conference meeting room

a shot of the moderator and 4 panelists sitting at a long table at the front of a conference room, with shared microphones and beverages

a shot from the view of the panelists facing the audience, several with hands raised for questions

back from #awp2026, where i was gagged to see SO MANY writers at our “debuting after 50” panel w/ melanie faranello, zeeva bukai & nita noveno, moderated by the 🔥 sara lippmann. huge thanks to all who showed up!🙏

Okay so #awp is over, what have we learned? #awp2026

That was really weird #AWP2026

My panel at #AWP2026. A wonderful discussion of the interconnections between place, history, and literature.

Home and drained after a lively #AWP2026, my first. A highlight was seeing the new issue of OSU The Journal at booth 232 and getting to thank the wonderful editorial team for publishing my story. Excited to read the whole issue!

Anna, it was so lovely and groovy bumping into you. Glad your #AWP2026 was all you'd hoped it would be! 😻

Anna Vangala Jones reading a story; Dina Relles, AVJ, Andrew Bertaina, & Lauren Woods at the 804 Lit Salon Reading; Ruth LeFaive, AVJ, & Maureen Langloss at the book fair; AVJ signing copies of her short story collection Turmeric & Sugar; AVJ & James Yates; AVJ & Chris Gonzales with his book I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat; Stephanie Austin & AVJ holding each other’s books, Burn and Turmeric & Sugar

had a great time reading, signing books, meeting writers & reuniting with others, & now I’m ready to sleep for about a week. goodbye, Baltimore! #AWP2026

goodnight, Baltimore! Thank you for hosting us rowdy writers, for the fog and the Canada Geese and the CHARM ♥️ #AWP2026

I can’t believe over the years I’ve made so met so many wonderful, creative, lovely writers that I didn’t have a chance to see them all in person at #AWP2026!

If I missed seeing, know I was there in spirit!

For those I did see, thank you for all the laughs and fun!

AWP 2026 was filled with craft talks, book fair walks, and many laughs with friends 😊. Till next year! #AWP2026 #Baltimore

The best part: I drove by my old childhood home on route 30 (going east this time) and saluted my roots. One in a million moments. On behalf of the team, we thank you so much. See you next year and at Philly AWP in 2 weeks. Until then, thank you, take care, and escape the mundane.
#awp #awp2026

#Awp2026 is in the books. Happy to meet these fabulous Roadside Press authors @christyprahl.bsky.social and @johnnycordova.bsky.social

One thing I noticed about #awp2026 is that no one shared their Wordle scores

They were a delightful topic of conversation at our happy hour last night
#AWP2026 #bathroommunchkins

*chef’s kiss*
#AWP2026

Zaynab Iliyasu reading her poem “Finding My Way Home” at the @chestnutreview.bsky.social offsite event for #awp2026

Thank you ALL for another great gathering at AWP! We love being with you in person and in love for Black literature & arts ❤️

#ObsidianatAWP #AWP26 #AWP2026 #AWPBookfair #ObsidianCommunity #ObsidianContributors #BlackLit #BlackArt #BlackPoetry #LitMag

Before we depart #AWP2026 (until next year!), we wanted to share some generative writing prompts from fellow writers like @kahamilton.bsky.social from the book fair!

Whether these prompts inspire a sentence, a playful poem, or a submission to our Breakout Prize contest, be proud for writing today!

When in #Baltimore you pay your respects to local legends. #awp2026

Sometimes you need a break from #AWP2026

There's still time to stop by the Obsidian table (211) in the AWP26 bookfair! 🎉

#ObsidianatAWP #AWP26 #AWP2026 #AWPBookfair #ObsidianCommunity #ObsidianContributors #BlackLit #BlackArt #BlackPoetry #LitMag