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 »
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 »
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 »
Social media has become an increasingly important platform for writers to communicate with their readers (or find potential readers). This means we all need to be aware of how to make the best of it. 1. Remember, you are a brand. Just because social media can often require you to write a concise comment, this is no excuse … Continue reading »
Loyalty us not as easy to define as people think. For me loyalty is a graduated thing. Yes, we can say we have loyal readers, but are we getting the maximum possible level of support from them? . Are they buying all of our books, visiting our sites regularly and defending and promoting us? … Continue reading »
