Hazel’s
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(group member since Jun 18, 2015)
Hazel’s
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from the The Indie Connection: Authors and Bloggers Unite! group.
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It's hard to start off, social media always takes a while to get rolling to be really helpful. I never get as much traffic on my blog posts here as I do on my actual blog. Do you have a Twitter or Facebook? if you do, posting all your new updates from your blog will help get that out to anyone who follows there. As for joining up a blog to your site, I have no idea how that would really work. I know it depends on how each one works. Sometimes, you can put a feed on, or simply just have a tab that will link directly to your blog.
I definitely know how that is haha. As someone who is not really tech-savvy I know it's definitely best to learn how to do something yourself. I'm not familiar with Square Space, but in my experience you can usually figure stuff out if you play around with it. The problem is remembering what you did that worked :P
I have only literally just started a Wordpress account, so I'm not sure of everything you can do with it yet. I know you can set up a simple website through them too, and then possibly link a blog to it? if not, you can always have a separate blog and just link it. What site provider are you using now?
Giveaways work to get people seeing the book and adding it to their shelves. Hopefully you'll even get reviews from the winners. Also, people who are interested enough will perhaps buy a copy themselves if they didn't win it.For book tours, you can pretty much just google Virtual Book Tours and you'll find a bunch of sites that will set them up for you. That would probably be best for your first time, but you can also set one up yourself if you feel up to it, just look into how they're done, or I would definitely be willing to give you some tips if you wanted to go that rout.
If you want an easier way to do a blog, I would try Blogger or Wordpess as opposed to using your personal site (Unless you use either of those already) and then you can actually just link them to your GR blog. That's how I have mine, so I don't have to update them both, I just update my actual blog and then it automatically updates here too.
Diane wrote: "Hi Hazel and everyone. I self published my debut novel, "If I Go," and now am struggling in the wilderness of self-promotion--something that's really hard for me. I'm starting my first blog here, a..."Hey Diane, glad you joined! It's definitely a bit overwhelming at first. I would say a good place to start is launching a Virtual Book Tour, that will get your name out to people everywhere and not just to anyone who goes to the bookstores that have your books. Goodreads giveaways are also a good way a get your books interest.
Definitely feel free to message me here on Goodreads if you have any other questions!
Hey Savannah, can you re-post this in the beta reader/reviewer section? That way people know where to look, thanks :)
Followed :) I'll add mine too:@artfulscribbler
Hi Samantha and C.B. welcome :)
My latest post is a review of Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige : http://hazelwest.blogspot.com/2015/06...
K.L. wrote: "Hi Hazel, long time no talk eh? Thanks for setting up this group, Ive been out of the 'marketing my own stuff' loop for awhile, but this seems the opportune moments to get back into it (since I am..."Hey! Good to hear from you again. I've been out of it for a while too, but wanted to start up a new group to help everyone else haha. Hopefully it will work!
This is kind of a fun topic for specifically authors, but bloggers are more than welcome to use it to. If you have a strange question or are looking for a certain kind of book or research item, post about it hear in it's own topic (i.e. "Looking for Information on Ancient Rome") and the rest of us will do our best to help you find what you need.
This folder is for posting services that will benefit authors or bloggers, like promotion, cover art, formatting, editing, or reviewing. Sort of like the business side of the classifieds. Please post what you do in the topic i.e. COVER ARTIST and your website. Feel free to post any deals or promotions you are running as well.
If you're looking for reviewers or beta readers, post your books here! Please use the following format to do so:Review or Beta:
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Please post your topic like this: TITLE/ GENRE
If you are a reviewer or beta reader, reply to book post with your contact information and preferred format.
Authors, you will be responsible for sending out the copies yourself.
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