As you’re making plans to market your book, it’s also good to plan to challenge yourself to step OUTSIDE of your comfort zone and explore new methods to get the word out about your book.

For instance, I’ve never been comfortable with the thought of using Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace. But as I’m planning on marketing my new book, Yes! You Can Learn How to Write Children’s Books, Get Them Published, and Build a Successful Writing Career, I’m challenging myself to try ONE new thing that’s outside my comfort zone. So I’ve decided to add a folder for each of these and am going to explore setting up accounts and networking with other writers on each of those connections.

How about it? As you read my upcoming posts on the different marketing I’m doing to help promote my new book, choose the ones to do first that are in your comfort zone. But after you’ve got those under your belt, how about challenging yourself to choose one, just one, strategy to try that’s outside your present comfort zone. Who knows? You just might find out you like it! And it will help spread the word about your own book, too.