Today's #minirant advice comes from Dawn Michelle Hardy, founder of Dream Relations PR and literary consultant agency; she is also known as the Literary Lobbyist. She has the ability to help authors reach their readership, win awards, and garner national and local media attention. Dawn is both a publicist and a literary agent. She continues to build her list with memoirs, sports biographies, contemporary fiction for women of color, essay collections by notable figures and non-fiction narratives about race, class, and gender. So on this episode of Mini-Rants, Dawn will share advice to new and self-published authors on getting started.