My Take on Marketing by Christine Tabaka Please welcome prolific poet, Christine Tabaka with her experience in marketing! My Take on Marketing What I am about to share is my own view point on marketing, and not based on any hard-core research on my part. As much as anyone may enjoy writing stories and poetry, writing a book is hard work. You have a lot of spell-checking, editing, formatting, and getting everything ‘just right’ before you send it off to a publisher, or a self-publishing site. Once you have the book published and in print, getting someone to buy it and read it is even harder still; unless you are one of the well-known writers of our time, or a famous deceased writer. And, to top that off, if you are trying to sell poetry books, it is even harder than fiction or short stories. Among my family and friends, many people I know will even tell me to my face that they have never liked poetry. I guess being forced to memorize poems that they never understood in grammar sch...