Writing is a creative passion, and in a way, social media is a true test of the writer’s skill. The novel is finally published. Your novel! Now you are faced with letting people know how wonderful it is. Yes you are partial. But at the risk of sounding self-indulgent, you truly believe your book is an exciting read. It has important things to say–hell it could possibly save the world! 

If you are like many authors, you attacked Twitter, knowing you would have 10’s of thousands of people rushing to follow you and buy your masterpiece. 

Wrong. After months and only a few hundred followers, depression along with the social media facts of life set in. There must be something wrong with your account, right?

Excuse me, I’ve gotten off topic. Speaking from my experience…after struggling with various tweets and ideas for blowing my own horn, I came across some things that worked so I thought I would share 4 steps that worked for me.

1. I befriended another exciting new author, John Darryl Winston, bought his book and suggested we write reviews for one another. He requited, tweeting that he bought my book and I followed suit. Between our two posts, had over 5,000 impressions.

2. I joined the club “BooksGoSocialAuthors' Group” on Facebook – I highly recommend it- and it’s FREE! This put a small army at my back and these Authors work at helping one another. Suggestion, if you join take the time to read their files and learn how the group works, then reciprocate. This group is all about author’s helping authors.

3. I pulled a few exciting lines from the first three Chapters of my novel and wrote an interesting blog .

4. Following the group’s suggestions (found in their Facebook files) I included my blog in a form and shared it with the group. Within 4 days I received close to 900 retweets and growing.

Now I’m sharing with you what works. You can do the same–I invite you to do the same. Those 4 steps netted 13.5K impressions and 300 new followers in a week. We can help each other succeed. By helping other authors, you help yourself.

Happy writing.
RB Anderson
TwoWorldsbook.com