Self Promotion

Last year I was thinking how do I get myself out locally at an in-person event.

Luckily my author ambitions this year are about to happen today.

Sometimes goals take time and now I finally feel ready to do this.

I have my Author copies of my books, my banner is ready to be put up and i have some limited edition ‘bookmarks’ – all of this makes the whole thing feel a little more real.

I’ll be appearing at a local Christmas fair alongside fellow Indie Author Lee Hall https://leehallwriter.com/  and we will have a local authors table.

As I am a performer I am not too daunted by this prospect although I would be lying if i said I wasn’t a little nervous. This will be a new experience and I plan to be supportive to anyone who is interested in writing, listening to poetry or just just plain interested!!!

Being able to meet potential writers/ poets or creative work lovers is an exciting thing and is also something I have never really had the opportunity to do outside groups of peers.. Whether or not I manage to sell any copies of my works kind of doesn’t matter to me but the idea of simply facing people and getting myself out there does.

This year has been busy as I have been performing a lot and have my name out there in various events as a named artist and even the Headline performer.

I have also published 2 books this year so now have 8 in print!!!!

I have met many poets who have liked my work and my network is growing.

Today is an opportunity to share locally and build a network possibly for my own event.

However, myself and Lee will be talking about our journey as writers, but also how we cross over.

Wish me luck!

I’ll promote some of my books and hopefully update how things went

Joe

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Author: Joe Campling

Joseph Campling lives in Buckinghamshire, and is married with adult children. He trained as a both a General and Mental Health Nurse in the South East of the United Kingdom in the mid 1980’s and has worked in various roles over the past 30 years. His first authored article in 2007 was jointly written about the need to share positive research based practice amongst care teams locally which was then published in a professional journal. He published “Mild Musings May Mitigate My Mentality” which was his first collection of poems in 2018. He has subsequently published MERRING or is it MRS GREN? Having written sporadically over the years (usually for friends and family) he has been writing more consistently over the past two years and has begun to recite his poetry at various Open Mic nights and Spoken Word events. He is often found ‘scribbling’ and then performing what he has just written. He recently has also been collaborating with a jazz composer by writing lyrics which have been put to music. His interests include watching live music, trying to play the guitar (still project in progress) and quizzing. He also likes to watch TV; mostly factual documentaries, comedy and quiz shows He also needs to read more and swears that he will do so very soon as he has a pile of books to read. He also ‘hangs out’ with members of the local drama club although he has no plans to act but is partial to the odd pint of orange juice and lemonade!! He follows rugby and can sometimes be found cheering his team on (London Irish) whether they win or lose.

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