Find a Follow and a Friend
March 11, 2013
Welcome to our social media category!
One of Safkhet’s goals is to create an audience for her authors and since so many people are on social media sites, we’re intent on helping our authors connect with their readers. Wherever you are in your social media journey: jump on the social media bandwagon when you like, add your own comments, and come on a virtual world tour with us.
This week’s tasks:
- search Facebook and Twitter and find 5 people on each platform to follow and add as friend who write in the same genre as you, so you can connect with like-minded fantasy writers, or romance writers etc.
- do the same with Goodreads and Library Thing – review 5 books in the same genre as your books .
It’s all about knowing your genre. Check what other writers are doing and what they’re writing about. Don’t just search for writers based in your country; broaden it out to countries where your books will be sold.
Until next week, Happy Follow-ing!
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Don’t most of us do this anyway, Amber? I know I do; I look for writers, artists and general public that might be good material to re-tweet to their followers as well. I probably get, on average, about ten new followers per week. I now have over 1100 followers. I do think perhaps I ought to do more reviewing, but what does reviewing actually mean? Do we have to read some or all of their book and comment or are we just acting as support for a writer?
To quote you ‘review 5 books in the same genre as your books’. How much of a book do we read before we can say we reviewed it? Thanks, Lin x
This link is quite interesting:
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/writing/online-writer-in-residence/blog/542/
in order to review a book, you’d best have read it in full! Otherwise, how can you believably say how you liked the character development, the story, plot,…? This is not meant to be just support for another writer, but also you engaging with other writers’ books and also discovering what readers like.