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A Cure for Marketing and Its Discontents

Deborah Lee Luskin's avatarLive to Write - Write to Live

icons-419200_640It’s now a month since I launched my redesigned website, started blogging, re-branded my author page on Facebook, updated my LinkedIn profile and joined Twitter.

I wish I could say that the result has been an unequivocal success with hundreds of site visits, subscribers, friends, connections and followers.

Mostly, I feel as if I’m crawling up the steep and jagged learning curve on bloody hands and scraped knees. I keep looking ahead, at how much higher I have to go to reach – what? What, exactly, am I aiming for?

I had several clear goals in mind at the outset: update my website, start a blog, clarify my branding, build audience and increase my use of social media.

I’m doing all these. But I want more.

cakes-489849_640I’m like a glutton at a banquet, scanning the buffet for what to eat next while wolfing down what’s already…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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