Welcome to Day 17 of the Lieurance-King Summer Article Challenge!

Did you know that many of the article directories, like ezinearticles.com, also accept press releases (they’re in a different category from the articles, though, so be sure to submit your press releases in the appropriate spot)?

Start promoting yourself through press releases as well as articles for article directories.

And, here’s another tip - once a magazine picks up your press release, post something about it on your blog - to give some online mention (and thanks) to this publication. That’s one more way to promote yourself while promoting others (the magazine that featured you).

To come up with a press release, just think of something newsworthy about your writing or writing business.

Are you launching a new website or blog?

Turn that information into an exciting press release.

Have you recently started a new podcast, radio show, or ezine?

Let the media know by writing a press release about it.

Are you offering a new product - an ebook or CD?

That’s worthy of a press release, too.

A good way to get the feel for writing a press release is to go to www.prweb.com and read some of the thousands of press releases that are posted there every day.

Try it.

Here’s a press release that went out at the end of our first quarterly challenge this year, The Lieurance-King New Year’s Article Challenge, when we presented several writers with the Golden PJs Award:

On Wednesday, April 4, 2007, The Working Writer’s Coach, Suzanne Lieurance presented Golden PJs awards to the participants and winners of the Lieurance-King 2007 New Year’s Article Challenge. Since the participants do not live in close proximity to one another, the awards were presented virtually in a teleconference arranged through www.freeconference.com.

Twenty-four writers began the article writing challenge on February 1, 2007, with a goal to each write 30 articles before March 31, 2007. Other writers continued to join the race even after Yvonne Perry, owner of Nashville-based Write On! Creative Writing Services, had reached her goal and secured her place in the winner’s circle beside second and third runner-ups, Hal Manogue and Kate Garvey. Keep Reading »