Tag: social media

  • Social Media Workshop Notes

    If you were one of the participants in my social media workshop yesterday at CAN-CON 2014, please accept my apologies! I had handouts of all the slides for you, but in the rush of finding a projector and starting late, I completely forgot (and my husband, who stopped to have the printing done on his…

  • Blog Tours 101: Setting Up Your Own Virtual Book Tour

    Blog tours to promote books — known as virtual book tours — are commonplace in today’s social networking world. While many services exist that help set up such tours, some authors choose to set up their own, often for financial reasons. Such was the case when I was looking to promote my debut novel; Sins of…

  • New! A Facebook App for Author Pages

    Good morning! It’s Social Media Monday here on the blog, and after a couple of weeks of being absent (read: trying to get my act together!), I’m back with a very cool thing that I only just learned about. (In my defense, it’s apparently fairly new. 😉 ) Did you know that Facebook has an…

  • The Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment

    So this week’s Social Media Monday is about an experiment. Specifically, the Great Wattpad Marketing Experiment. Over the last few months, I’ve been hearing a lot about something called Wattpad–with many of the mentions coming in a surge during the past two weeks. Never one to ignore a nudge from the universe (yeah, right 😉…

  • Using Graphics in Your Social Media Postings

    We humans are visual creatures.  I know…shocker, right? Shall I wait for you to recover? No? All good? Then I’ll continue. 😉 The reason I wanted to bring up this stunning revelation is because of its importance to social media. Platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram are both growing in popularity, and Facebook and Twitter have…

  • Just How Effective IS Social Media for Authors?

    Good morning, and welcome to another Social Media Monday! Last week, something occurred to me. Here I am, handing out advice to all of you on a variety of social media-related topics, but I had no idea whether or not social media actually worked. At least, not with regard to book sales. Oh, I like being on social…

  • How to Cheat at Writing a Blog Post

    It’s Social Media Monday here on my blog, but sadly, I don’t have an actual post for you today.  Instead, I’m going to show you a little trick I use when I need to post and I haven’t done my homework. 🙂 I’m going to give you a quick update and a list of all…

  • The Great Facebook Debate: Page or Profile?

    Early on in my writing career, I made the decision to use a Facebook page for my author presence instead of my personal profile. There were a number of reasons for this. First and foremost, of course, is the fact that Facebook’s policies clearly state that you cannot “use your personal timeline primarily for your…

  • Why Fiction Writers Need to Blog (and What to Blog About)

    So, now that you have your author website up and running (and have all the critical elements in place that we discussed last week), I thought we’d tackle another important aspect of your site: the blog. Or if you prefer (and you feel the way I did about blogging when I began), The Dreaded Blog.…

  • How to Build an Author Website: Are you doing it right?

    When I decided to run the Social Media Monday series, one of the most difficult things for me was figuring out where to even begin. Social media (in case you haven’t noticed) is huge. The platforms, communities, groups, hangouts, and places to see and be seen are endless. Even if you pare it down to…