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 »
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 - … Continue reading »
A selection of the most popular tools for social media are listed below – with links. This is not a complete list, but hopefully it will help you and inspire you to look for more! If you’d like to add to the list do so through the comments at the bottom. Listening & monitoring: Topsy … Continue reading »
I have 13 boards on Pinterest and 298 followers on my favorite board linked and pictured above. That board provides clues to the riddle at the heart of my first published novel. You can click on the images. Some will take you to Amazon to buy the book. Others will take you back to my blog, … Continue reading »
I received a proper, with money involved, offer for the option rights on The Istanbul Puzzle. We are all very excited and my publisher in London, Harper Collins, are negotiating the finer points about percentages of the box office and all that with the Hollywood producer involved. Now, keep this in mind. I was rejected … Continue reading »
