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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Creating tension, the need to read on, to find out what happens next, is a technique that social media posters can use to build engagement with their followers. I’m not suggesting that each post should have a cliff hanger, but I am encouraging awareness of how storytelling techniques can be used in a corporate or … 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 »
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 »
As you know I am an author. My first novel came out January 2012, published by Harper Collins. So why do I do all this stuff on social media, Twitter @LPOBryan, Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TheIstanbulPuzzle etc etc etc? I believe we are in a new age of hand selling or screen selling (screlling?). I have heard it … Continue reading »
