Rooted Reads to Encourage New Subscribers
Meet Peggy Arthur, writer of the forthcoming novel, The Pretender's Game. Peggy is working a strategy to encourage readers who would enjoy reading her book to find her. Peggy has begun a regular feature on her website called "Rooted Reads." Peggy's book, The Pretender's Game, is a sweeping tale of a Black family in the southern United States. Peggy, through this book, is creating a new mythology that is based, or rooted, in southern Black culture. Did you know you could create your own myths? I confess I thought just dead Greeks could do that! But as soon as I began to read Peggy's excellent and, frankly, thrilling book, I knew I was wrong. And so, where do we find our readers, when our book releases? Well, one good thing to do would be to line them up ahead of time, so that they're waiting for your book. Peggy is doing this by giving something away free to people who might want to read her book. She is giving them a recommendation for another book, like ...