To clarify things for anyone else who might read this, I didn’t say this on my blog, but on my Facebook page, where I mentioned that I was starting the blog and connecting it with my writing/editing web site, partially due to editors wanting writers to have an online presence. This wasn’t any particular editor, just a general buzz I’m picking up from writing publications’ market updates and from other writers, as well as what I’m hearing when attending writers’ conferences and workshops.

Editors refer to a “platform” being necessary for writers these days–meaning, you have multiple capabilities from which you can promote your own work and get your name better-known. For children’s writers, we have to try and keep up with the kids, who are always better than most of us at the cutting edge stuff. This could mean a web site, Facebook, Twitter, a blog, pod casts, and.or whatever new technologies come along, too.

Old School techniques are still important. This means plenty of speaking appearances, free bookmarks promoting your book and yourself, interviews, book announcements on mailed postcards, any means toward getting your name out there and into the potential audience’s brain. Writers can do their writer friends a great favor by reading their new books and commenting favorably on Amazon, as another example. I have never contemplated a tattoo, but I’m sure there’s a writer out there with their book’s title somewhere on their body, for all to see.

I don’t pretend to be a techie, because I’m not. But I hope that answers your questions? Anyone else have more to add?