Weekend Wrap-up Oct 21: Social Media or Social Meh?

Could I make the logo any smaller?

I use my social media for one thing…well maybe two, but they are related.

To entertain. Any one who finds me on any of my social media platforms will hopefully enjoy the content I create*. I am most often humorous, sometimes cynical, at times satirical, and occasional just bizarre. To reach new readers and to sell more books. Why else would I write and publish?

The danger in promoting books is over-promoting to the point that people get annoyed and will tune out. But in order to be visible, you need to showcase your work often. I try to keep my promotional posts to under 50%

If you are on X-Twitter, you might notice it is a bit of an excremental extravaganza. Many authors use it as part of their advertising and I usually do one promotional post/day but since a post will quickly get buried in the feed, it doesn’t get seen by many.

Some of my posts I think are entertaining and will elicit a good conversation thread, but alas, twas not the case.

Do you remember when this was the most popular website? pic.twitter.com/JyGokypYfm

— Leon Stevens (@linesbyleon) October 19, 2023

I have “met” some very supportive author there, and a few readers have said they found me through that platform, but more and more it is feeling like a waste of effort, so I’m slowly backing away from X and focusing more on the others. Where else am I?

https://books.linesbyleon.com/links

I started on the new platform, BlueSky, and I have a few invite codes if you want another platform to try.

On my blog this week:

Free Book Friday Oct 20: Book or Not a Book
Thursday Thoughts: 25 Years and no difference?
Weird Wednesday Oct 18th: Cartoons
Open Book Blog Hop October 16th: Music and Writing
Metal Music Monday Oct 16: Too Early to Rock?

*Please don’t call me a content creator.

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/

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