I am a writer, not a publicist. Long before I ever got into blogging, I was a writer and I remain so today - just a writer who happens to love F1 as well. But my weakness in the area of promoting my work really came home to me this week.
A completely gratuitous photo of the Williams FW30
It has been a week of bloggers contributing to other blogs, the week of the guest writer, in fact. Over at Sidepodcast, Christine demonstrated how to make the most of such an event, putting up a post that alerted readers to her contribution to Ollie's fine BlogF1. As I read her article, I could not help wondering why I had not thought to do something similar for my own contributions to other sites. Just a lack of imagination on my part, I suppose.
Christine had even gone to such lengths of decency as to mention my previous guest spot at BlogF1, thereby shaming me in my shortcomings at failing to mention it to F1 Insight readers. Hopefully that link up there will be sufficient apology, belated as it is.
And that brings me to a more recent event: my guest article on F1 Fanatic today. I am actually quite proud of this one, considering it a good example of how a writer can waffle his way to a long piece on very little real information. It was fun to write, too.
This also gives me the opportunity to recommend these guest spots on Blog F1 and F1 Fanatic; they are series and a different writer/blogger will be doing each one. That should certainly be well worth keeping up with.
Then there is a forthcoming project of my own and others, soon to be announced. Consider that a teaser, rather like those ads seen occasionally that point to an important new product but refuse to name it until the great unveiling. Hint, hint.