Kirsten BellKirsten Bell

Kirsten Bell is an Australian anthropologist living in London. The director of the publishing experiment Caw Press, its first book, Silent but Deadly was released in 2022 and its follow-up, The Baggage We Carry, will be out in November. You can find her on Substack, where she writes the free Silent but Deadly newsletter, and her Facebook author page.
Paying for Exposure on Social Media: What Not to Do
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An author decides to pay a bookstagrammer for exposure for her book, and comes to regret it so much that ...
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I Hired a Book Publicity Firm for £1,800. Here’s What Went Wrong.
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One author reflects on how her desire to not just outsource marketing, but to outsource even thinking about it, led ...
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