As a follow-up to my last post, I thought I might offer a few tips about getting the word out when you’ve made New Art and are ready to share. I am ALL ABOUT the joyousness of this occasion. There is nothing like having a new book/website/other brilliant work baby, and sharing it with your friends and readers is half the fun. So, yes — blog, tweet, Instagram that baby out into the world! Have a party! Hire a skywriter! YAY!!!! But you know what? Spamming people you don’t know

Part the first… I am very fond of my writer friends. I have also been very, very lucky to be surrounded by a community of wonderful writers, throughout my career, who have not blinked when it comes to lifting each other up. My first internet writer friends came from the Compuserve Writers Forum, which still lives on as the Literary Forum. IRL groups that have supported me over the years include the North Shore Writers, Canadian Authors, CWILL BC, CANSCAIP, The Writers’ Union