Throughout the week I research new writing blogs and sites and follow links posted on Twitter. So, I thought, Fridays would be the perfect day to post “Things I’ve learned” either through experiences of the week or resources and tidbits I found.
This week:
Marketing:
Twitter has become my source of marketing, socializing and information. I learned how to search for “Tweets” about a specific topic, i.e. “young writers,” and how to locate Twitter users that are local (for niche marketing purposes) Follow this superlink to learn almost anything about Twitter:
http://mashable.com/category/twitter-lists/
everything twitter how’tos
Networking:
It’s a give and take, this game of networking. This week, I had the opportunity to visit Arnie Bernstein, author of Bath Massacre:America’s First School Bombing, at a local indie bookstore. Stopping in to visit with Arnie meant I was a little late to a family graduation party, but it was well worth it. Not only did I get two copies of Bath Massacre signed, but made a valuable contact. I will be interviewing Arnie for Writers Inspired in the next few weeks, and he is putting me in touch with many other reputable authors. Lesson learned: Get out there and support other authors! Meet face-to-face whenever you can.
Blog Tours:
If you stopped through this week, I hope you had the pleasure of reading the interview with Elisa Lorello on her experiences of self-publishing her first novel, Faking It. Not only was the interview extremely candid and thorough, but the comments and replies throughout the day were amazing! Lesson Learned: when hosting a blog book tour, let the author know what to expect and PUBLICIZE the hell out of it (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, email list.) I plan to write an entire post on Book Blog Tours soon.
So, what have you learned this week? Please share!
4 Comments
June 26, 2009 at 9:07 am
Thanks for the Twitter link! I’m still very new to Twitter and figured I’m nowhere close to maximizing its potential.
June 26, 2009 at 9:19 am
I’m still looking through all the article/tips on that Twitter link. And with each new discovery, I’m shouting ” Oh, cool!”
June 26, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Great info here! I agree about publicizing a book blog tour day that you host. I publicize the day before I host an author on blog sites like The Motherhood, BlogHer, Blogamama, and others. Hopefully this helps bring more people in to learn of the author on his/her tour.
June 26, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Kimberly, I didn’t think about publicizing on other blogs; thanks for the tip!