Spirituality and Marketing Yourself as an Emerging Writer

Joy Notoma speaks with guest Cecilia Caballero, PhD on the importance of marketing yourself and not relying on the publishing industry for your success. Cecilia offers a helpful tip to regulate the nervous system when talking about your writing on social media feels scary. 

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Thank you for listening to Ep. 2: Spirituality and Marketing Yourself as an Emerging Writer.

I spoke with guest Cecilia Caballero, PhD on the importance of marketing yourself and not relying on the publishing industry for your success. Cecilia offered a helpful tip to regulate the nervous system when talking about your writing on social media feels scary. Participants noted how it's often more scary to talk about your writing with family and friends than with strangers. We also discussed how spiritual practice aids the writing process and why it's essential to how we care for ourselves as artists. 

To connect with our guest, Cecilia Caballero, PhD subscribe to her newsletter here and follow her on social media on Twitter: @la_sangre_llama and Instagram: @bookworm_por_vida.

The following are links to resources, people, and readings that came up in our conversation. They are listed in the order in which they were mentioned. 

Women Who Submit

Octavia Butler Legacy Network

Gloria Anzaldua

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Toni Morrison “The Site of Memory” PDF

Saidiya Hartman Critical Fabulation/ Venus in Two Acts PDF

Saidiya Hartman Lose Your Mother

Barbara A. Holmes

June Jordan “Calling on all Silent Minorities”

Thank you to participants Alison Leigh Jones, Hazel Pritchard, Brittany Felder, and Alice Steinke. Special thanks to the one and only Mat “Mat Mat” Poirot for help with editing and production.