Cindy’s Comments (group member since Mar 08, 2016)

Cindy’s comments from the Authors Helping Authors group.

https://twitter.com/C_Springsteen

J.E. wrote: "I'm trying to figure this out! Here are a few of my contact pages:
https:facebook.com/darkendoftherainbow
www.janetirvin.wordpress.com
The Dark End of the Rainbow" Here is your Goodreads link, I just followed you https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Welcome!

E.A. wrote: "This thread is awesome! As a brand new author, I had no idea how much time I was going to have to spend marketing. Cindy, those are some great tips I'm going to be putting into practice. Looking fo..." Thank you! Been doing this for 6 years now and have truly learned a lot. I took my author from under 1000 followers to now over 48,000 just on twitter alone. Her FB page to over 10,000 and trust me I know the hard work that it takes. The key is having the resources here we are now building. We truly can take the market by storm if we all ban together on this. We would be introducing our followers to all new things as my followers would know hear about all of you and your awesome books! Please feel free to friend me on FB join our FB group and ask questions.

Thank you Susan!!!

Marketing is truly the hardest part! Especially for self-published authors. I work for a top author, who I learned a lot from and I run all her social media. I used to each social media years ago that is how I got the job with her.

Sadly it takes money to truly advertise and market properly. If you are able to invest in yourself and your books then many resources are available. Since most of us probably don't have that then need to truly ban together. Many people your friends with etc.. like on Facebook will get tired of seeing your posts for your book, so need to be diverse.

Have a Facebook page.
Have a Twitter - find good people to follow and build your following.
Have a Google Plus.
Have a Linkedln.
Have an Instagram.

Don't always just try to promote your book. Find quotes and other things that relate to your book and post about those as well.

If we each follow each other on twitter retweeting each other could be very beneficial.

Sharing and Liking posts on Facebook pages helps to reach a larger audience.

Since we don't all know each that well we truly have an advantage here of reaching so many new readers if we truly ban together.

Set a schedule to budget your time for the most part. You can pre-program your FB pages to post things so if you do a day or two ahead post at least twice a day not promotional each time then you can work on other things.

Use Hootsuite and do the same for twitter. Pre-program tweets to go out numerous times of day. Some promotional, some Retweeting others, some quotes and tips etc..

Any questions or anything feel free to ask, this is truly what I do for a living. Just sadly with the work I do for everyone else hard to do same for my own and write.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Please follow each other on Goodreads. Starting a discussion and everyone can add their link to make this much easier. Just add your links so we can keep this clean and easy to follow.

Here is my book.

Title: Destiny (Forever & Always

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Forever...

Blurb: BASED ON A TRUE STORY…

A HEARTFELT ACCOUNT OF A LIFELONG LOVE

Danny and Cassidy meet as teens and fall in love. Their tumultuous relationship brings misery and happiness to Cassidy. The story is told from her perspective and brings the reader into her emotions and trials. Determined and loyal, the once shy girl fights for a love that she cannot let go of. Her belief that Danny is her destiny perpetuates her longtime fight to bring them together.

Tragedy befalls her in her twenties and she has to face the fact that she has lost Danny. Still, their love seems to live on and she meets the obstacles head on. The story walks the reader through her difficult life. At times, you may want to scream at her….to just give up. Her journey will pull at you and make you feel many emotions: love, betrayal, rage and a desperate heartbreak.

Can they learn to let go of a love that always seemed to prevail, or has destiny set a path for them that’s beyond their control?

Thank you for considering my book. Right now it is only $0.99 on kindle.

Cindy

Mimi wrote: "Thanks for the invitation, Susan. I've struggled also with this Indie career and it hasn't been easy at all. One thing I can mention is that it helps if you can join or form a group where you can a..." I tried to click on your link but it won't take me to your page?

J.J. wrote: "Hi Jacquie, I think you have a good chance of finding an audience for this book. Readers like books that are different! Have you tried tinkering with the categories and keywords (or key phrases)? T..." Really helpful article thank you JJ for telling us that!

Voted and good luck to you! Feel free to post this in FB group see if you can't get more votes.

Hi Everyone and great idea J.J.! My name is Cindy Springsteen. I have published 3 children's books, two are still online, but the other I am redoing and self-publishing before the end of this year if time allows. If you read above I had a terrible publishing experience, took back my rights and am now self-publishing. I just re-released my true based novel a couple weeks ago called Destiny (Forever & Always). You can find it here http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B...

Since the message was sent before some of you joined, we also have a FB group to join if you like. FB can be a little easier to converse and follow each other, share etc.. https://www.facebook.com/groups/14080...

Aliya wrote: "So happy to find this group! I am a (very) new author, with my first book (Sweet Vengeance) having been out all of 10 days now! I'm looking forward to learning from everyone here, especially about ..." Welcome Aliya! Congratulations on your new release! There is a link in this thread for the FB group to join as well. Happy to help!

Ann wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Here is a link to a Facebook Group that we can all also post and help each other from. https://www.facebook.com/groups/14080..."

Joined, thanks. My novel is out today, lots o..." Congratulations on your book! I agree exchanging experiences is extremely valuable to help us little fish in a big deep ocean!

Dannye wrote: "Susan wrote: "Are those 50 books eBooks or print? "

I haven't found that giving away books is useful. Back in 2011 when I ran Breakthrough Bookstore, I gave away the first two novels I had written..." Yes that is hard! I usually find that having a FB party did my book good justice. Got a lot of sales and reviews. I do these things for a living and have worked hard to build a following, but that publisher issue ruined a lot I had built.

Susan wrote: "Cindy wrote: "I am on Facebook most of the time as my job is running authors pages, plus I have my own so feel free to post questions there as well."

Maybe we should be sharing posts so that we're..." Once we get everyone on FB maybe we can create a page as well so that it links to goodreads? just a thought so that we can rotate posts making sure everyones books get posted about, this also helps people not seeing repeat posts, as for me I feel sometimes that friends get annoyed seeing me post same things.

Susan wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Marketing is really hard and I have asked some of the top authors what works, some of their methods do, but mostly the best marketing comes from word of mouth and recommendations to o..." She sends ARC's to her readers, some print approximately 25 rest Ebooks.

I am on Facebook most of the time as my job is running authors pages, plus I have my own so feel free to post questions there as well.

Yes it is on Goodreads and thank you Emm!