Co-chair Barbara Beckwith offers members 10 ways to publicize your professional expertise and/or book(s) to both your colleagues in the Union and to the wider public

1. Sign on to the Boston Chapter low-volume listserv, where members announce book signings, workshops, blogs, readings and other local literary events. Here's how: Email nwu-bos@nwuboston.org and in the subject line type "subscribe." In message area, type "subscribe nwu-bos."
   
   
2. Promote your book or writer-related services to fellow NWU book writers around the country by subscribing to the genre-specific NWU-book. This well-moderated, civil and informed discussion group is considered by some one of NWU's most valuable resource. Here's how: Email nwu-book-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, leaving both subject line and message area blank.
   
   
3. Post brief notices about your upcoming writing related events on the Boston Chapter website. Here's how: Email webmaster Barbara Mende. You can also ask her to link to your website, and to link your book title to Powell's Books.
   
   
4. Submit a post-event Kudos blurb to Boston Chapter eNews. Here's how: Send a notice to eNews editor Sue Katz once the book is published. Provide a maximum of 40 copy-ready (ie. third person) words and feel free to include a website or other contact info. Check the Kudos listings below for examples.
   
   
5. List your professional services, book titles, etc. as part of the bio blurb you can add to our Boston Chapter 2009 Member Networking Directory (distributed to chapter members only). Send up to 100 words to webmaster Barbara Mende. She can send you the directory (no cost) as a pdf file. Contact her as well to add your bio blurb to the National Writers Union's new nation-wide member networking directory.
   
   Here's a bio blurb example: Kitty Beer, beerk@earthlink.net. Harvard B.A., Cornell. Author of novel, What Love Can't Do, published by Plain View Press, June 06. As journalist with environmental beat, wrote for publications like OnEarth, Ithaca Journal, and Harvard Magazine. Screenplay: Home, placed in the 2004 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards contest. Member of Society of Environmental Journalists.
   
   
6. To have your new book or flyers about your book, professional services, workshops, developmental editing, blog, etc displayed at Boston Chapter events, send up to 6 flyers, or one display copy of your book(s), to Boston Chapter co-chair Barbara Beckwith, 8a Appleton Rd., Cambridge, MA 02138. Questions? Email Barbara.
   
   
7. To promote your book at our annual winter Boston Chapter January Book Party, where we celebrate members' books published in the last calendar year, keep an eye out for our late fall "first-come-first-serve" call (via eNews and/or an all-member email) for 6 readers (5 minutes each). All book authors are invited to bring the books they published or edited, including past publications, for display and possible sale by the author, whether new, a paperback edition or a self-published project.
   
   
8. To be considered as an interviewee on a future (2010) broadcast of our monthly Brookline Cable TV "Third Wednesday" live show featuring NWU members, email co-chair Charles Coe.
   
   
9. Offer to write a short career tip article for the Boston Chapter website. Or suggest a Boston Chapter program on an area of your expertise, featuring you! Email co-chair Barbara Beckwith.
   
   
10. Spread word-of-mouth buzz about your book or other professional expertise by coming out to NWU meetings, programs, and social-networking events. We're known as friendly and welcoming.