One aspect of social media for writers, which has been little discussed, is the idea of extending your story with social media. Social media is part of the new wave of communications, which is dominating the mindspace of hundreds of millions, with its instant tribal culture, its visual cortex stimulating nature and its snappy story-telling … Continue reading »
Can you get on with people who are different to you? Collaboration is a critical part of achieving your dreams as a writer. If you can’t get along with your editor, mentor and writing group colleagues how is all this going to work? And the next step to getting along is helping your fellow writers … Continue reading »
Image courtesy of Kittikun Atsawintarangkul / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Whether you’re just starting out in your freelancing writing journey or you’re a veteran author working on your masterpiece, there is a plethora of online services and applications that should be in every writer’s toolbox. From document sharing to copyright checks, to finding interviewees to SEO assistance, there are more tools … Continue reading »
The above is newspaper coverage in Ireland of Dan Brown’s new book and how I found echoes of my own novel in it. Would you be willing to court controversy to promote your writing? There are more books than ever getting published. Millions! Seth Godin predicted there would be 12 million published in 2012 in the … Continue reading »
Giving away books is one of the easiest things you can do on social media as a writer to raise awareness. I have given away copies of my books every month for the past six months and I have posted copies to as far away as Japan. On Goodreads over 500 people responded to a … Continue reading »
One of the most challenging tasks for any writer is what to create for social media. Twitter is important and we can retweet, reply and link to other content with it, but if you have a blog or web site with valuable content you can draw people to your own site and expose them to … Continue reading »
Most writers want to get noticed. These services were designed to help you achieve that. I am both self published and traditionally published by Harper Collins. My first published novel achieved a number one placing in its paid for category on Kindle and is close to selling 35,000 ebooks since launch in 2012. My total … Continue reading »
Flipboard, as you know, is a magazine app on iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets. They have recently created a feature which allows us to create our own magazines. Anyone can subscribe to your magazine after you have created it. I have created a magazine called socialmedia4writers and it’s available on Flipboard http://flip.it/U21eR - just … Continue reading »
Reblogged from Restless Writers: The last thing I want as a writer is another social networking platform to worry about. I have enough distractions, thank you very much. And so it begins… With a little persuasion from Maria, I have started “Pinning.” I’m using Pinterest for my writing research. Sure, I’m creating personalized boards and … Continue reading »
Another storytelling technique you can use to build social media engagement is characterization. Characterization builds empathy between the reader and your post or feed/series of posts. But how do you do that? Characterization is built by revealing personal details. It’s in the advice to “be personal”, but we can expand on that idea to give … Continue reading »
