Social Media for Writers: Marketing Strategies for Building Your Audience and Selling Books

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Maximize the Potential of Your Online Brand! Over the past decade, social media has transformed from a fad into a necessity for writers. But for the inexperienced author, trying to make sense of--much less master--the available platforms can be a frustrating experience. The variety of social media options alone is dizzying enough: WordPress, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, and more. That's where this guide comes in. Whether you're just starting to create an audience or looking to refine your online presence, Social Media for Writers will equip you with the essential tools you'll need to succeed. In this book you'll learn how to: Develop an editorial calendar: schedule consistent, quality content for your blog and work with other authors on guest posts and blog tours Create an online brand: write content for several different networks, and tie them together to develop an authoritative, trusted voice Utilize ""best practices"": learn the ins-and-outs of the online community and how to maximize the potential of each platform Build a community: make connections and create a fan base to endorse your work You'll also find appendixes that show you how to set up the major social media platforms and perform basic functions. With all of these strategies, techniques, and applicable information, Social Media for Writers is a comprehensive source for all your social media needs!

Tee Morris has been has been active member in social media since 2005 when he podcast, MOREVI, the first novel podcast in its entirety. That experience led to the co-authoring of Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, and All a Twitter and Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 Minutes. Tee is also one of the voices in The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, written with his wife, Pip Ballantine. The previous titles in this series were named finalists in Goodreads Best in Science Fiction of 2011 and 2012. Philippa Ballantine has been writing professionally since 1997, and since then she has gone on to produce novel length fiction and even serve as Technical Editor on Tee Morris' All a Twitter. In 2006 she became New Zealand's first podcast novelist, and she has voiced and produced Weaver's Web, Chasing the Bard, Weather Child and Digital Magic as podiobooks. She is the author of the Books of the Order series with Ace Books, the Shifted World series with Pyr Books, and has appeared in several anthologies as well as a non-fiction collection of essays entitled A Taste of True Blood from BenBella Books.n Now in 2014, following a successful Kickstarter campaign for Ministry Protocol, an original anthology of short stories set in the Ministry universe and a Parsec win for Tales from the Archives, Tee and Pip celebrate the arrival of their third book, Dawn's Early Light and launch a new venture-One Stop Writer Shop-offering a variety of services to up-and-coming and established indie authors.