I’ve always kind of bristled at the phrase It takes a village to   (fill in the blank) . But sometimes, it does. Before my novel was published I heard so many authors say something like “much of the work happens after the book is published because then you have to market…” and I’d stand there and smile with the phrase to market to market to buy a fat pig, running through my brain because the word market didn’t have much meaning. Here’s how I define it, what I’ve whittled it down to, at least with books: There are lots of books out there and you want yours to stand out.…