Great to meet you! Social Media Follow Up

Hi Vanessa,

It was nice to chat with you today. As promised please see below some general guidelines we have for social media. I don't have Google+ listed as we haven't used that channel previously but please continue to do so :)

Goodreads details: vanessaravencroft@yahoo.com

Facebook : è Create author's page and promote it on all platforms. Ideally we’d like to get 50 new likes every week à like other authors in your genre, add them as friends and ask them for cross promo à add yourself to all relevant groups you can find (reader groups and author groups) and interact with people to inform them about the book (ask them to read it if available on Inkitt, tell them about your writing life) à Can you think about other fb groups were potential customers of your book might be? à Make sure to post once per day from your author's page, take a look at Lauren's page how she does it à Some other examples: • https://www.facebook.com/Li ndsayBuroker Buroker’s Facebook page combines updates and information about her own work with links to articles (not written by her) that she thinks her audience and Facebook followers might enjoy reading. This helps Lindsay keep her name in front of her followers (in the News Feed), while increasing the chances that her followers share a link or status update she posts on their own walls, increasing her exposure to a new audience. Thunderclap à Promote it on social media pages and pin it to your twitter à Ask personal friends and friends on social media as well as engaged readers on wattpad to sign up to it. Twitter à Follow all relevant authors in the genre, they should follow you back à Ideally 200 new followers every week à on twitter you can and should tweet several times a day using writing related hashtags I personally think the most powerful hashtags at the moment are #writerslife #writersblock #amwriting and #wordcount => Good example: • https://twitter.com/BrianR athbone Instagram à Get an author's account à Same strategy as twitter, follow people like content they will follow/like back à Check out how other authors are doing it http://www.diyauthor.com/in stagram-for-authors-how-author s-are-using-instagram/ àAlso check out how these guys are doing it! Goodreads => Get authors account, create groups, add people to those groups => Please read: http://www.authormedia.com/how -to-promote-books-goodreads/ Here is a step by step guide: http://www.yourwriterplatform. com/market-book-goodreads/ Last but not least: Always remember that while we can give your book an initial boost to make it popular, in the end you are the face behind the book and people will love you, not us. Everyone knows Ernest Hemingway, but nobody knows who published him. As you continue your career as an author people will buy your books not because of the story but because it's you who wrote it. It may seem like a lot to take on, but your hard work will pay off!!