How to Promote YOUR book on Amazon discussion
WATTPAD Feature - WOW!
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May 30, 2014 06:11PM
What is Wattpad???
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Jayelle wrote: "What is Wattpad???" It's a website where you post your writing for people to read. They have 25 million users. I've reached 78,000 reads now.
This sounds like a great way to gain readership. Post short stories and have links to your books on your profile so those who like reading your work can find your books to buy. At least that seams like the obvious use of the site from my perspective.I just signed up though and I'm a bit miffed. I mean, I don't want my personal facebook page associated with my author name. That's the whole point of a separate facebook page for that. However, if I want my facebook on there then it HAS to be my personal one. If I want Twitter on there then I HAVE to authorize them to post to my twitter account (I'm already having enough issues with that on youtube...about to disconnect my facebook and twitter from that profile too).
Yet, they have a spot for Lulu and Smashwords which would lead me to assume that they expect authors (or do they only expect those who vanity publish and have no serious interest in writing?)
*shrugs* I'm still going to play around with the site a bit before I decide if I'll post any short stories or poetry. I mean, I love the idea of increasing my readership but I already have enough networking sites to juggle.
Am I wrong here? Am I missing something?
*hugs*
Jayelle
I'm not sure about the facebook and twitter. The facebook page I link to is for my book, though I log in with my personal page. You can turn of notification and posts. I learned about the website at a publishing class I took at Stanford. There have been several success stories so far, and the latest one isn't even well written (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/tec...). Anna Todd just signed a three book deal based on her popular After series. It's the teen and young adult audience that drives the most popular stories, though there are regular published authors of all kinds that routinely visit. Check out figment and authonomy as well.
I've been looking over the site and I like it. I'm not sure about the links to fb and have left them blank, but have my smashwords listed. I don't use Lulu (I use Createspace instead) so that's a non issue. lolI'm going to work on some short stories to put up. The ones I used to have were eaten by a virus and I never recovered them (I now backup everything onto a flash drive).
