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In-Person Sales: The Marketing Strategy You Might be Overlooking with Lauren Domagas
A literary agent tells you your book is “interesting” but they don’t know where it belongs on a shelf. Do you revise it into something safer, or do you publish the thing you actually meant to write? Host Sayde Walker sits down with Lauren Domagas, author and independent publisher of Songs for Mahalia, to unpack the moment traditional publishing uncertainty became a clear invitation to self-publish with confidence.
We talk about what Lauren learned pitching at the San Francisco Writers Conference, why short story collections and cross-genre work can be tough for traditional publishing teams to…
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