Hunter College Sat. June 4th

The Hunter College Writers' Conference, NYC, is next Saturday, June 4th, and I'm to speak about marketing. I'm on a panel so it may only be a few words.
All that keeps flying through my head is: I'd rather be writing. But these days a writer has to not only write the book but sell it, talk it up, get it noticed.
It used to be different. Can you imagine Eudora Welty talking to Jay Leno? Or William Faulkner sitting across from an earnest Meredith Viera? How about Virginia Woolf on The View?