Promoting a novel is an important job for authors these days.  Not many publishing houses have the advertising and promotional budgets they had in days gone by.  So, unless you are Stephen King or Nora Roberts you are probably on your own, with only a little advise from your pub house.  My plan is to appear in bookstores and coffee shops throughout the midwest to promote by book, Feisty Family Values in the spring of 2010.  The pub date is February, so look for me in March.  But things can change, so check back!