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Murder Must Advertise
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WHAT IT IS

Welcome to Murder Must Advertise, an email discussion list for every author who wonders about the best way to promote a new mystery book. Trade ideas and practical tips for touring, direct mail, advertising, and online promotion. Talk about where to get postcards made, how to tour on a shoestring budget, who to send press releases to. Publicists, web mavens, and booksellers are welcome, too.

MMA just celebrated 11 years of helping authors promote their own books in an ever-changing marketplace.

The Moderator recently did a podcast with marketing guru, John Kremer. Check it out here.

Individualized marketing services are now available for authors wanting more one-on-one services.

Membership is now over 1500 and traffic currently averages 15-20 messages/day.

The list is named after Dorothy L. Sayers' 1933 book, in which Lord Peter Wimsey takes a job working undercover at Pym's Publicity.

New!! Tagging Database -- MMA members can request tags for their Kindle titles via this database -- for members only

TO JOIN

Alternatively, go to the Murder Must Advertise community page at groups.yahoo.com to subscribe/unsubscribe. From there you can also change your mailing status (to/from digest, individual messages, or nomail), access archived messages, and see or download community files. Or send email to subscribe.

SITE CONTENTS

Here's what we have to offer at this site that is open to the public:

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about book promotion
Links - connections to other sites that can help
Bookstore - selected titles that relate to book promotion
Fresh Ideas - New ideas from authors about how to promote your works. This page is updated frequently and is always open to your own articles as well.

The following resources at groups.yahoo.com are open only to members of the Murder Must Advertise discussion group:

Community calendar - listing conventions and conferences of interest to MMA members. Switch to the month view for easiest browsing.
Community databases - mailing lists of members and reading groups.

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