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Book Marketing Update

Get ready because this week’s Book Marketing Update is a super whopper!

I took last week off and during that time, I rediscovered TikTok.

A few years ago, I opened an account and after a few months closed it.

With time on my hands, I decided to reopen my account. Man, was I surprised by what I found.

You won’t find any vitriolic posts — at least I couldn’t find them. (Such a relief!)

Plus, #BookTok is a huge thing right now. Previously published authors are being rediscovered and new authors are finding success on this little, positive, and vastly popular social media platform.

I’ve included a few posts about TikTok in this update. Be sure to check them out. Personally, I find TikTok dangerously addictive.

So, beware!

Book Marketing

QR Code Generator for Authors from Kindlepreneur: “A QR Code is a small square image that is scannable using smart devices like your iPhone or Android phone. The ‘QR stands for quick response … With our QR codes generator for authors, you can not only create QR codes that link to your books, but you can also include your author logo or a book cover, to help keep track of what QR codes you have.”

Hive: Hive Index is a directory of online communities. Use it to find communities interested in the genre of your books.

TikTok – #BookTok

TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking notice from NBC News: ” ‘BookTok’ has sent old books back to the top of bestseller lists and helped launch the careers of new authors. Videos with the BookTok hashtag have been viewed a collective 12.6 billion times.”

The rise of BookTok: meet the teen influencers pushing books up the charts from The Guardian: “Young TikTok users are sharing their passion for books with millions – bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute.”

BookTok Is The Last Wholesome Place on the Internet from Refinery29 UK and by Alicia Lansom: “If you were starting to think that social media was filled purely with angry people shouting at one another for no reason, you wouldn’t exactly be wrong. But thankfully, in the depths of TikTok, there is a wholesome place reigniting faith in the internet.”

How TikTok Makes Backlist Books into Bestsellers from Publishers Weekly: “BookTok’s power to promote books relies on its grassroots nature. Through self-made content, users create the sort of literary publicity that, in its sincerity, money literally cannot buy.”

Publishing

Every publishing strategy should start with Amazon and Ingram – The Idea Logical Company/Mike Shatzkin: “What has happened since the pre-21st Century publishing world I — and so many of the executives now running things in our industry — grew up in is that book sales have shifted and fragmented.

Take A Look-See Here Too

You Are A Writer – You Create And License Intellectual Property Assets from Joanna Penn: “You have to understand IP and rights licensing in order to make a living as an author for the long-term, whether you work with an agent or you’re entirely independent.”

Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) offers a free webinar on how authors can get the most out of Amazon ads: Optimize your ads with the help of Bryan Cohen.

What To Do When “Someone Published a Book Just Like Mine”? Lisa delves into the positive side and extracts lessons for writers working on a book that someone else just published.

Quote of the Week

Hey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

Welcome to this week’s Book Marketing Update. How are you doing?

Today, I have another roundup for you that is chock full of tips and strategies all designed to help you sell more books.

So, sit back and enjoy!

Book Marketing

Create A Great Throughline For Your Book from Bard Press: “I just got done reading Adam Davidson’s book The Passion Economy … I found the book frustrating, but not because it wasn’t good. I was frustrated because I don’t think the book reached its full potential. I fear recommending it because many readers will just think it was OK. Not true! The trouble is that all the pieces don’t fit together as well as they could.”

How To Make This E-Commerce Holiday Season Your Best Yet from Forbes: “E-commerce has never been more competitive. However, the market is also bigger than ever before. While e-commerce has been growing steadily for years, it has grown exponentially since the Covid-19 pandemic hit last year.”

Does the Idea of Promoting Your Book Make You Feel Queasy? from Jane Friedman’s blog and by Lizbeth Meredith: “While a small group of enthusiasts may swap tips between sessions, the attitude of far too many—especially authors who fancy themselves literary—is that the promo piece is unsavory. They’re too important, and drumming up their own book buzz feels beneath them. (“Isn’t that someone else’s job?”) Or they’re too introverted. Too icked-out by the idea of becoming a self-promoter. The problem? Their books join the other million-plus published annually that don’t find their forever home in the hands of the right readers.”

Email Marketing

2019 Black Friday & Cyber Monday Email Checklis from MailerLite: “Email marketing is essential, as it gets your promotion directly in front of your customer’s eyes. This time of year, consumers are anticipating hoards of special offers landing in their inbox, so you’ll need a good strategy to compete with the chaos and get in on the action.”

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo: How to Fly by the Seat of Your Pants—and Win from Jane Friedman and by Stephanie Bourbon: “When I first did NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2006, I started with nothing but a book title. That’s a little too much pantsing even for me.”

Social Media

27 Time-Saving Blogging Tools for a Supreme Content Marketing Strategy in 2022 [Infographic] from Social Media Today: “Want a list of tools that can streamline your blogging process? The team from Website Setup share their tools for success in this infographic.”

AudioBooks

5 Key Benefits Of Publishing Audiobooks For Indie Authors from Writer’s Edit: In this post, Writer’s Edit outlines the five key benefits of audiobooks for the self-published author.

Bookstagrams of Audiobooks: 17 Gorgeous Pics You Need to See from BookBubPartners: “f you’re trying to build buzz for an audiobook … posting eye-catching pictures of it on social media can be a great way to attract attention.”

Quote of the weekHey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

Bloggers were active this past week, which explains why the Book Marketing Update is so rich with marketing news today.

If you don’t subscribe to Jane Friedman’s free Electric Speed newsletter, don’t delay. She also produces The HotSheet, which costs $60 annually for the subscription. It’s another great newsletter to receive from Jane and well worth the nominal fee. And while I’m on this topic, be sure to subscribe to Jane’s blog. Her voice is, in my humble view, the most knowledgeable one available to writers.

Enjoy this roundup and have a lovely weekend.

Book Marketing

12 Free Graphic Design Tools for Authors by David Gaughran: “Free graphic design tools have had a huge impact on my business. One big change in my approach to self-publishing in the last few years has been recognizing the importance of branding… and doing something about it too, I guess.”

11 Powerful Book Promotion Ideas for Self-Published Authors from Editage: “For authors, marketing essentially involves drawing and engaging your target audience by sharing more about yourself and your book. It really is as simple as communicating.”

Great for Book Marketing: The Hive Index from Jane Friedman’s newsletter Electric Speed: Here’s what Jane Friedman has to say about this website: “You’ve probably heard the advice to hang out online wherever your readers are, at some mysterious, as-yet-unidentified water cooler. How do you find these people out of thin air? Try The Hive Index. It lists more than 900 communities that you can search by topic.”

Email Marketing

How to protect your social media with email from MailerLite: “Many of us spend a lot of time and money building our Facebook and Instagram business accounts. But what happens when there is a major outage? Or worse, you wake up to find that Facebook deleted your page?”

Author Blogs

How to Blog for Your Way to Expert Status by Nina Amir: “You want expert status, and you’re wondering how to achieve that coveted state sooner rather than later. No worries. Your blog can help you become an expert…fast.”

Social Media

How to Add a Link in Bio on Instagram and TikTok to Drive More Traffic from Hootsuite: “Even if you’ve only seen a few posts on Instagram or TikTok, you will have likely come across the phrase ‘link in bio’ … But what does ‘link in bio’ actually mean? Why are people always using it? And should you get in on the action too? Let’s find out!”

Must Reads

Overcoming Overwhelm to Write a Book — and Finish It! by Lisa Tener: Check out Lisa Tener’s four tips for writing and finishing your book.

More focused than an autobiography, a memoir is an intimate look at a moment in time. from Celadon Books: “A memoir is a narrative, written from the perspective of the author, about an important part of their life.”

Quote of the Week

“I had this idea that the novel can change things. If you help make people see the injustice in the world and the corruption in the world, the world will become a better place. And my life, and also my novels, got a lot better when I let go of that idea and came around to a notion of a community of readers and writers, and that the service was not to Society with a capital S, but service to that community.”

Jonathan Franzen

Hey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

I hope you enjoy this edition of the Book Marketing Update.

For some reason, there were a lot of blog posts about social media and authors. I especially like those types of posts and I hope you’ll enjoy the ones I selected below.

Social media is transitioning to an audio medium. If this is where your readers tend to hang out online, be sure to learn how to use Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse to help you with your book marketing.

Enjoy these cooler and beautiful autumn days.

Book Marketing

Success Without Self-Promotion from Writer Unboxed and by Greer Macallister: “Instead of self-promotion, think of the path to getting your book in front of readers on social media as a railroad track, with two parallel rails: be yourself, and take yourself out of the equation.”

TikTok for Authors: Best-Kept Secrets for Selling Your Books on the #1 Social Media App — Shayla Raquel: I don’t agree with this bloggers assessment. Why? Because the demographics of TikTok might not meet the demographics of your readership. Decide for yourself. “And considering being an author is not just “like” running a business, it is a business, then there’s no good reason for authors not to be using TikTok to their advantage when selling their books.”

5 Indie Author Mistakes That Can Tank Book Sales from Anne R. Allen and Ruth Harris: This blog post delineates the five common mistakes that indie authors tend to make.

Social Media

Making Social Media Easier from Chanticleer Book Reviews and by David Beaumier:  “Social media can feel like a scary thing, but if you work on a schedule and promise yourself a little time on it each week, it’ll grow before you know it.”

15 Ways Authors Support Each Other on Social Media from BookBub Partners: “… we’ve been inspired by how authors have stepped up to build community and spotlight their fellow writers’ work.”

Twitter Announces Broader Roll-Out of New Spaces Tab, Adds New Spaces Invite Process from Social Media Today: “… Twitter is launching a broader roll out of its new Spaces tab in the app ….”

Amazon

How to Self Publish a Hardcover Book on Amazon from Dave Chesson: “Publishing a hardcover book used to be a complicated task. Amazon didn’t produce them through KDP Print, so you had to go to Lulu or IngramSpark to get them done, which cost extra and resulted in really expensive hardcovers for readers. But that has changed.”

Take a Look

Want To Improve Your Writing Craft And Business? from Joanna Penn and with Kevin J. Anderson: “In order to write your novel in a month or less, you need to develop a plan and increase your productivity.”

Quote of the WeekHey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

We have a new season and a new Book Marketing Update.

There is a lot to consider as you read through the list of blog posts I discovered this past week. Publishing is changing and it’s fascinating to watch the changes play out.

Enjoy your weekend and your writing!

Book Marketing

What Do Authors Earn from Digital Lending at Libraries? by Jane Friedman: “Of the many changes wrought by the pandemic on the publishing industry, one of the most dramatic has been on library circulation. OverDrive, the biggest US distributor of digital materials to libraries and schools, saw lending increase by 33 percent in 2020 ….”

TikTok’s Influence

BookTok Has Quickly Become a Major Force in Publishing from The Mary Sue: “Now, books discussed by readers on BookTok (book marketing on TikTok) are getting their own table at Barnes & Noble and picked up by major publishers.”

Vella

Bringing books into the TikTok era: Amazon’s Kindle Vella and the rise of the new ‘story platforms’ from GeekWire: “Some early Kindle Vella authors say the overall audience hasn’t met their expectations. Amazon says it’s just getting started. It’s supplementing royalties with bonuses in the meantime to help keep authors engaged.”

Social Media

Facebook Tests New Option to Facilitate Post Sharing to Multiple Groups at Once from Social Media Today: This new option would enable Facebook users to crosspost content to multiple groups and get more people sharing more content.

AI Audiobooks

AI audiobooks take a big step towards the audio New Normal from the Passive Voice Blog: “The service uses innovative technology that replicates the human voice to create a listening experience that is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.”

Of Note

What is Upmarket Fiction? And Book Club Fiction? Are They New Genres? by Anne R. Allen: “You can find lots of lists of fiction genres, but you won’t see “Upmarket fiction” included. You may have seen somebody mention “Book Club” novels, but you won’t find that section in a bookstore, either.”

Can Fiction Make a Difference in the World? by Susan DeFreitas and from Jane Friedman’s blog: Think about the books by James Baldwin and the difference he made in literature and life. He was as political as he was literary.

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview: Be sure to watch this on YouTube or Twitter.

Quote of the WeekHey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

I hope you enjoy this week’s Book Marketing Update.

I’m happier than usual. Why? It’s Autumn, my favorite season! I love the cool early mornings and warm afternoons and the colors. Oh my. The orange and red leaves are the best colors in the world, aren’t they?

So get out there, take a walk or a hike, and enjoy the beauty of this season. May it inspire your writing.

Have a great weekend!

Book Marketing

: Sophie Brent shares the lessons she’s learned from running BookBub ads.

Amazon Author Central Tips to Improve Your Book Sales by Daniel Parsons and from Self Publishing Formula: “Create a profile on Author Central, however, and you can send readers to an optimised author profile page dedicated purely to your books.”

Best Book Promotion Sites from David Gaughran: “These are the best book promo sites in 2021 for boosting your sales, launches, free promotions, series promotions, and mailing list too.”

Email Marketing

100+ newsletter content ideas for your next email from MailerLite: Coming up with new newsletter topics isn’t always easy. That’s why some authors (like me) use their blog posts as newsletters. If your newsletter is separate from your blog, check out these tips.

Author Websites

Author Websites: Are You Missing These Five Crucial Elements from BookBub Partners: “A well-optimized author website can help an author brand themselves and sell more books. It’s an important marketing tool that provides readers, publishing professionals, and members of the media vital information.”

Of Note

Privacy Reset: A guide to the important settings you should change now from The Washington Post: This is a super article about how to make your settings more private on Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Venmo.

How to Start Journaling: October Journaling Adventure by Lisa Tener: Journaling has many benefits. Learn more about journaling, Lisa’s new book, and her October journaling adventure for writers.

Can Exercise Make You More Creative? from The New York Times: I love to walk, do you? Walking and hiking always boosts my creativity. Now a study confirms what has been true for me for years.

Buying Books for the Holidays? Be Prepared to Be Flexible. by Jane Friedman: “This month, the biggest US book wholesaler and distributor, Ingram, released several statements to its customers warning about the challenges ahead. “

Quote of the WeekHey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

This week’s Book Marketing Update is huge!

In fact, I include five posts on the topic of book marketing and several more on social media.

I also found the blog post on how writing affects the brain to be interesting.

Enjoy the roundup.

Book Marketing

5 Reasons It’s Necessary To Market Your Books With Social Media by Rachel Thompson and from Start It Up: “Many writers new to book marketing aren’t quite clear on the connection of social media to book marketing.”

All of Rachel Thompson’s latest articles in one place. Book marketing, book promotion, social media, blogging, writing, etc.: How great of Rachel to compile her blog posts for us, eh? Be sure to check them out!

What I Learned from a Hudson News Book Buyer by Keri-Rae Barnum: Keri-Rae Barnum of New Shelves Books details the types of books that sell well at airports.

Warning to Writers: You Won’t See This New Publishing Scam Coming by Anne R. Allen: Another great post from Anne R. Allen. This time she writes about people who clone authors’ Facebook pages.

QR Code Generator for Authors by Dave Chesson: Be sure to check out Kindlepreneur’s new QR code generator for authors.

Social Media

The ‘Facebook Files’ Investigation Highlights Key Concerns in the Platform’s Approach from Social Media Today: The Gabby Petito case has shined a harsh light on the sometimes cruel side of social platforms. While they can be helpful for authors who need to build their followings and get awareness for their books, there is a sinister side to platforms like Facebook and Instagram that can’t be ignored.

Pinterest Tests Idea Pin Sharing Direct to Facebook and Instagram Stories from Social Media Today: “Pinterest is looking to help users maximize the promotional value of their Idea Pins, with a new option that will enable direct sharing to Instagram and Facebook Stories, complete with a Pinterest watermark.”

Worth Reading

How Writing Affects Your Brain, According to Science by Kristina Segarra and from The Writing Cooperative: “Writing isn’t just a creative activity. It also offers amazing benefits for your brain.”

Quote of the WeekHey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

After a one-week hiatus, the Book Marketing Update is back!

This edition includes book marketing, publishing, and social media news. Plus, I included a post on Substack by Jane Friedman.

I hope you enjoy reading these posts and that they help you on your publishing journey.

Book Marketing

How to Sell More Books Using TikTok with Lila Dubois and Jane Rylon – from Mark Dawson and James Blatch: “Is TikTok just another social media time suck? Jayne Rylon and Lila Dubois don’t think so. On this episode, they share where they think TikTok’s value lies and how authors can benefit from the early days of the platform.”

The Importance of the Book Pre-Order to Authors by John Briggs and from Ryan Lanz: “Enough pre-orders give a book a big boost on the best-seller list the week it officially becomes available.”

Publishing

Publishing Scammers are Proliferating like Tribbles: How to Stay Safe by Anne R. Allen: A great post on how to avoid publishing scammers.

Discovery Writing: Telling a Story Back-to-Front – with Patricia McLinn and from Self-Publishing Formula: “In this interview Patricia talks about the choices she made and how they served her, and has advice for upcoming writers about focusing on what matters.”

Substack

I Like Substack. But the PR Is Getting Ridiculous. by Jane Friedman: “I subscribe to more than 50 Substacks. I even pay for a handful. I think it’s a great platform and I recommend it often to clients. That’s not so much because I love Substack the company, but because I believe in email. “

Social Media

New Report Looks at Social Media Usage Trends Over the Past Decade, and Where Things are Now Headed from Social Media Today: Looking at trends and considering how they can improve your sales is always a worthwhile endeavor.

Instagram for Authors: Robin Kall’s Expert Tips from Lisa Tener: Learn how this author uses Instagram. Her tips are universal.

Instagram is Developing a New ‘Montage’ Feature to Convert Stories to Reels, New ‘Favorites’ Listing: Another post from Social Media Today about what’s new on Instagram.

Hey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

I know I’ve said this before but there is a lot to love in this week’s Book Marketing Update.

From book marketing tips to Amazon tips to publishing tips … whoa! I continue to be amazed by all the information other authors share to help the greater publishing community to succeed.

Enjoy the tips below and the rest of your summer!

Book Marketing

When should you put a new cover on your book? by Jennifer Crosswhite and from Nessgraphica: “Every reader will see your book cover, and it plays a huge part in their decision to buy your book or not.”

How We Hit the USA Today Bestseller List with a Multi-Author Anthology: This is an interest post about a group of romance authors who collaborated on an anthology.

Some Unconventional Advice About How to Write the D*mn Blurb by Ruth Harris: “Your blurb (aka Production Description on Amazon) has one — and only one — purpose:  to make the reader an offer s/he can’t refuse.”

Publishing

3 Steps for a Great Small Press Experience by E. J. Wenstrom and from Elizabeth Craig: “The right small press can be an incredible way to get your books into readers’ hands! But it’s important to know what you’re looking for in a publisher, take steps to know who you’re getting into business with, and be an active partner in the process.”

The Ultimate Guide to Print Publishing Options for Indie Authors from Alliance of Independent Authors: This post reviews print publishing options for writers.

Book Sales

How to Make Six Figures Self-Publishing Children’s Books from Jane Friedman and by Darcy Pattison: If you write children’s literature, be sure to check out this post.

Amazon

Do You Need Keywords to Get Into Certain Book Categories? by Dave Chesson: This post outlines a recap of how Amazon’s categories used to work and new changs to the platform.

Quote of the Week

Hey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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Book Marketing Update

I hope you enjoy this edition of the Book Marketing Update.

There are posts in nearly every category of an author’s life from publishing to book distribution to book marketing.

Enjoy today’s roundup and your last days of summer.

Book Marketing

Author Platform: Here’s What All the Fuss Is About from The Write Life: “The rise of the author platform as an industry obsession is a relatively new phenomenon. While industry folks may argue that platform has always mattered, today it’s more important than ever before.”

Publishing

Start Here: How to Self-Publish Your Book by Jane Friedman: “This is an introductory guide on how to self-publish and choose the right services or approach based on your needs and budget.”

Kindle Unlimited

How Do Kindle Unlimited Subscribers Behave In 2021 (And How Does it Impact Authors)?: “Kindle Unlimited has revolutionized the eBook experience for both readers and authors. In this post we take a closer look at the habits of KU readers compared to non-KU readers, and what that means for authors whose titles are enrolled in KU. We surveyed over 2,500 readers and analyzed the results to find out what the takeaways are for the author community.”

Book Distribution

The Value of Book Distribution Is Often Misunderstood by Authors by Jane Friedman: I don’t believe I’ve ever read a blog post on book distribution before. This one is excellent so I recommend that you read it.

Reading List for Authors

Writing, Publishing, and Business Books for Indie Authors from Alliance of Independent Authors: “Over in the AskALLi team, we thought we would collate a mid-year reading list for you ….”

Social Media News

Facebook Brings Reels to its Main App as it Seeks to Capitalize on the Short-Form Video Trend from Social Media Today: “As TikTok continues to gain momentum, Facebook continues to seek new ways to quell that growth, with its latest attempted pushback coming via Facebook Reels, which will enable users to create and share Instagram Reels within the main Facebook app.”

How To Get Real Followers For Instagram from Kicksta: This post includes an infographic with 12 tips.

Great Read

5 Tips for Authors When Negotiating their Author Agreements from Anne R. Allen and Ruth Harris and by Joseph Perry: “For authors who are given a book contract and may not have an agent or attorney, here are a few tips that may help you in negotiating against the publisher.”

Quote of the WeekHey, I’m Frances Caballo and I’m a social media expert for writers, building and managing author platforms to enhance book sales. A writer all of my life, I also provide content writing and email marketing services. If all you need is some training, I enjoy offering one-on-one training sessions as well. Of course, check out my free, email-based social media training course (you’ll get a free, 64-page Twitter ebook with it). Or, sign up for one of my social media audits to find out how you’re really doing.

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