I am a social media addict. There is a section toward the back end of Facebook where you can check how much time you spend online each
day. I won’t share my count because, frankly, I am embarrassed about it.
Ask anybody and they will probably agree that a part of a successful marketing campaign includes Social Media. Am I using my time at Facebook effectively? I think
it depends on my goal.
Facebook has countless Groups for writers of almost any kind you can imagine. Some of them, for example, a Group called Authors where Noizchild and I are a part of
the moderating team. As I am composing this post, Authors has 45,640 Members. Join a few groups. Even if you don’t indulge in Full on Shameless Self Promotion, you can help other group members from time to time by commenting in the feed.
Facebook has Pages. Take a few hours if you haven’t already and make a Facebook Page as an Author or in the name of your Blog or for your Books. Don’t forget to
post regularly, even if it is just a quick image upload.
Start your own Group. It will take a while to set up, then you have to figure out how you are going to find members. I advise you to resist the urge to snatch
people out of a sound sleep and make them join your group. They get rightfully angry about this.
I just gave you some of the easiest ways to use Facebook. It is a start but to make it really work to find traffic for your blogs, podcasts, virtual tours and
readers, you may need a Planned Approach.
Facebook marketing is an organic resource for authors that can’t be overlooked. But from book updates to event
pages to promotional content, the number of tactics you can use to interact with readers can be overwhelming. As an author, how can you be sure you’re getting the most out of your Facebook page?
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What do you do when the idea puddle has dried up to a geometric webbing of cracks hard baked in the summer sun?
What happens when you sit down at your word processor and it find yourself deleting whole paragraphs nursing frustration because not a single idea is arriving fully formed, today?
What happens when you simply aren’t motivated to start something new and your WIP feels like you have written yourself into a corner and can’t even fake a way out?
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I’ve known more than one writer who denies the whole idea of Writer’s Block. They will advise you to push right past it. You can do it.
Then there are others who are glad to point out that maybe you just aren’t cut out to be a writer after all. If you can’t hear characters shouting into your ear or running away with the scene treating you as their own personal secretary.
I am not a person who multi-tasks so any project I am into generally takes all of my attention for as long as it takes.
I will close the computer and begin a crochet project and I usually go big when I do that. I will also set up a canvas and begin a painting project that usually takes weeks.
My third option involves finding writing prompts. I keep The Pocket Muse within arm’s reach of my keyboard.
If you're on the hunt for book cover makers, you're probably looking to DIY the cover for your book. But before we get into our recommendations, we'll start with a caveat: don’t make your own book cover if you can avoid it, unless you're a professional designer already.
I want to encourage you to check into the various book cover creators listed in the article above. Let's talk about it.
