This is a Fund Raising/Book Boosting Post

 

I’m taking a leaf out of fellow single mother, Cardi’s book and flogging my own books on these internet ‘streets’. Ten dollars! Just ten dollars for a gem of a book filled with raw, unvarnished truth about the ups and downs of single motherhood. “I know you got ten dollars!” Find Single Motherhood Unplugged on kofi: https://ko-fi.com/annemariemusawale/shop. You can also purchase a print copy from the Nuria Bookstore or amazon sites: https://bit.ly/printbooksannemarie

- Annemarie Musawale

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Allow me to add a separate but related post.

This week has been a ‘promote my kofi bookshop’ week for a number of reasons. I’m tired of the middle man. He’s eating good from me and using the proceeds to burn the world to the ground. Yes, I am speaking of Jeff Besos. I hear there’s something called blackout which involves boycotting big business and buying from small, ‘black-owned’ businesses. I’m just trying to do my share in letting you know where you can get some good books without going to Amazon. I guess the above two reasons are connected but it’s not only sticking it to the man that motivates me. I want to grow my own community and this is how I choose to do that. So here’s a video of what I’ve been up to during the week. The captions I used were fire. You should visit my instagram at authorannemarie and see for yourself. Aside from that, I just really enjoy making the graphics. More to come.

- Annemarie Musawale

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Marketing Out of the Box

Solange or someone said how they cannot be confined to just one channel of creative outlet. That they were more than just the singing or the acting or whatever. Same thing with the Smith siblings. Just doing all sorts of creative shit.

It's inspiring for me because I'm a writer but I also dabble in other things - painting, drawing, graphic design, making videos, everything.

And all these things are not different parts. They're all part of the same whole. So I've recently come to discover focus videos and the fact that I might be on the spectrum. These two factors are related because focus videos actually help me to well...focus.

Now it's hop skip and jump from watching focus videos to thinking "Hmm, I can make those too."

But why just make the videos when you can also use the videos to post excerpts?

Utility and marketing. Out of the box thinking.