The post title is fairly self-explanatory I suppose, but I'll go into detail here in case anyone is curious about what a media-kit involves. If you have wonderful (if meddling) friends who want you to succeed, or theoretically an agent, you will probably be required to make a media kit. This consists of things like business cards and head-shots and other promotional materials. It's been suggested by other websites that you have all this ready before you get published, but I'm going to come right out and tell you that in a lot of cases I think it's better and easier to wait.
Get your work accepted by a publisher first. By working with the publisher you'll know what sort of theme they're going with for your novel and you can branch out from there with your media kit. Don't, however, do what I did and wait until you're supposed to go to a convention in a week to do literally anything about it because you didn't think it was important.
Start with business cards, these should have your contact information and the contact info of your publisher/agent/whatever along with a short blurb about yourself or your newest work, whichever you feel is most applicable. Business cards are surprisingly cheap and actually good for everything.
Business? Give them a card.
Meet someone socially and want them to have your number? Business Card.
It's the classy way of giving people a way to talk to you and an idea of what you do.
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