04-08-2024, 01:05 AM
(04-07-2024, 01:43 PM)DISRAELI Wrote: Thank you for your very helpful comments. There are special factors involved in that my book field is theology (though PPP is actually history and theology in combination), and religion is no longer an area of "general interest" in the UK as compared with the U.S. so I can't see bookstore appeal to the local populations gettting me anywhere. I'm not part of the academic world and I don't have any pull with church authorities.
This also restricts the availablity of conventions. When I published the first two books, someone on ATS waa advising me to go to the "big religious conventions", but of course I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic for the ones he had in mind. Here the most obvious opportunity is Keswick. I have indeed had thoughts about Keswick. I think I would have to book a room and/or work out some arrangement with the local bookstore for that week, perhaps inveigle the local church into providing people who could help set it up. I could wander around all week wearing my London Book Fair lanyard, and leave bookmarks in places where the cleaners won't feel obliged to remove them.
I would think that at any fair or meeting where the clergy are invited would be a good place to do some marketing, then.
And are you confident enough in yourself to set yourself up as a speaker for certain topics? Libraries and book clubs and so forth often need speakers.
