Authors, Can You Slide Into Someone’s Holiday Letter?
Your own or that of your kids, your parents, your business, your employer?
Thriller writer Anna Sharpe reminded me it was that time of year again, the season of Christmas cards and holiday letters.
It reminded me that even though I am over 50, I still get a paragraph in my mom’s annual holiday letter that goes out to her list of 200 people. This is good. Better than it used to be when I would wait for the letter in the mail to see what cringe intepretation she had of my prior year. Now my siblings and I get an email in early December with a request to write our paragraph so that she can cut and paste it right into her end-of-the-year missive.
In my paragraph, our family will get one sentence, my husband and kid will each get a sentence, and my sentence? Well, I just might mention my upcoming book, nothing long or fancy: Sharon has collected 300 of her articles on author businesses into a new book coming out in January: The Profitable Author.
What about you? Can you tastefully slip mention of your book, books, and/or publishing adventures into your own letter? In…
