Sci-Fi, fantasy and speculative Indie Authors Review discussion
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Great idea - likes coming up. My page is facebook.com/daedalusandthedeep - likes gratefully accepted
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Do you reckon FB is any use (to us here I mean) by the way?
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I'm only just getting started with it, but plan to have it mainly for fans who prefer FB for connecting. It's not my first choice of social media, but I'd rather be accessible. ;)
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What I don't quite understand is: what's to stop everybody here on Goodreads doing the same thing - everybody 'liking' everybody (and everything) else, billions of 'likes' flying back and forth and completely clogging the system?
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What I'd like to see is how other people used their facebook pages.This is the page I've created for Tsarina
https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSector
Obviously feel free to like it, but I'd also be interested to see what other people are doing and other off the wall ideas
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Just one question though: one of the photographs (taken from a ferry and showing three, um, quadrupeds strolling along a riverbank) appears to include a living unicorn. Did you take this picture yourself?
Richard wrote: "'Liked' it Jim.Just one question though: one of the photographs (taken from a ferry and showing three, um, quadrupeds strolling along a riverbank) appears to include a living unicorn. Did you take this picture yourself? ..."
I like to claim that all pictures are sent to me by Haldar, or taken by those tourists who've taken us up on the fabulous free holiday offer.
In a facebook discussion somebody did comment and I checked with Haldar. It seems that way back somebody did a genetic modification which seemed good to them at the time, and on some worlds there are horses which show that particular feature :-)
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Well I felt I needed to provide readers with something other than stuff saying 'How wonderful I am'Ideally they like the book, but if they like the book there's no reason for them to be particularly interested in me, so there's not a lot of me on the page, in fact I'm never mentioned.
Jim wrote: "What I'd like to see is how other people used their facebook pages.This is the page I've created for Tsarina
https://www.facebook.com/TsarinaSector
Obviously feel free to like it, but I'd also b..."
That is a great page and I have duly 'liked' it - I think using pictures is a great way to make the page engaging... I tend to post up links to my blogs, other interesting blogs, updates from my book and general stuff, but I think pictures might be the way to go!
www.facebook.com/GarryAbbottAuthor - if you want to check mine out.
Shame most of my stories are set in future worlds though... might be hard to get pictures.
Well Tsarina is quite literally at the edge of the galaxy and is set well in the future.But it's amazing what you see that might be relevant, think how fashions come round in cycles.
What I really need is a competent artist or at least somebody who can do nice pencil sketches
Jim wrote: "Well Tsarina is quite literally at the edge of the galaxy and is set well in the future.But it's amazing what you see that might be relevant, think how fashions come round in cycles.
What I reall..."
Ah! I see - My eyes had been drawn to the real world pictures, but I've just gone back and looked closer and I can see that you are building up a 'picture' of Tsarina from all sorts of sources. That's very cool. Well done.
Hey there!Great to see so much support here.
Here's the Facebook page for my first book:
https://www.facebook.com/HisDarkerEye
I generally post links to my blog posts on
http://www.michaelscoinsauthor.com/blog but as I'll have a new book coming out in a few months there'll probably be more material on that!
Garry wrote: "Ah! I see - My eyes had been drawn to the real world pictures, but I've just gone back and looked closer and I can see that you are building up a 'picture' of Tsarina from all sorts of sources. That's very cool. Well done. ..."
That's what I've tried to do. Whenever I come across anything that might be appropriate, I've even got friends who send me pictures :-)
J.A. wrote: "'Liked', Garry and Michael :)"As have I. Great looking pages. I think mine might be in need of a facelift!
I have liked some pages and will come back when I am less ill-feeling to check out others. If anyone is happy to like mine, it is:https://www.facebook.com/ShellWriting
Don't forget to "like" mine back. I'll have a brand new CHIPMUNK UPDATE tomorrow.
I've given my page a bit of a facelift since I put the link up, and finally got around to using the logo Fireship bought for me when Daedalus was published. What does everyone think?By the way JA, is it worth setting up a similar thread for external blogs?
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K, here's my F,book ... https://www.facebook.com/turhan.halil...My Twitter is ... https://twitter.com/DLTDEYH
aaaaand my Wordpress blog/book review is http://www.indiebookblurb.com/
Just gotta mention this guys ... All my social media sites are pretty much devoid of content. I've really not been active with Facebook or Twitter but it would be nice to exchange 'likes' with ya'll and connect witcha :) My Wordpress site which is an absolute fledgling is something that I'm going to keep working on and at some point I'll be reviewing Fantasy/Paranormal etc books there, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. I just started to load some reviews onto it that I'd done in the past, so it's an evolutionary process, but I'm determined to make it a place where indie authors can turn to, to get your books reviewed for free.
TIA for all your likes, and as soon as I can, I'll get back to this thread and 'like' your pages. For the Mo, real life beckons :)
Great idea! Mine's https://www.facebook.com/sharisakuraiI think I'm up to date but if I've missed anyone please let me know :) thanks!
Hello all!Liked you all! And hoping for a like back!
Www.facebook.com/authorlaurenshelton
Www.facebook.com/thehybridbook
Www.twitter.com/laurenmshelton1
Man, you guys are all so awesome! I've just arrived at this group, and it's nice that everyone is so friendly! :)LIKES ALL AROUND.
Check out my artist/author page on facebook (if any of you guys need help with cover art, illustration, contact me, I don't bite!): https://www.facebook.com/tammywitzens
twitter: https://twitter.com/TammyWitzens
and my blog: http://tammylwitzens.wordpress.com/
HUZZAH.
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I am happy to like and support like minded authors, so I have liked all of those listed above that I was able to. Two were personal pages, so I apologize, since I don't have a private Facebook, I don't have the option of friend requesting. (Which is kind of sad/funny because the page manager app will tell me to invite friends to like my page, but when I click, it tells me I have no friends.)
Anyone interested, please feel free to check out my page:
http://facebook.com/mcmullenwrites
I am curious though, whether or not you see that I have liked your page or you only see the page count go up. I get mystery likes from time to time and it drives me crazy. I want to know who likes me! :)
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I think I'm up to date with everyone but if I missed you let me know.
Btw my twitter is https://twitter.com/J_AnneIronside I review books and sometimes say something funny. Always happy to retweet on info about books I've enjoyed especially for fellow Indies :)
Wow, I need to go back and click everyone's links. My facebook page is: http://facebook.com/authorkarajorgensen
and my twitter handle is @authorkaraj
I like to use my facebook to announce releases and post links to things that are related to the first book or the second one, which I'm currently working on.
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Christina wrote: "I am the absolute worst on Twitter. I break the cardinal rule and just autofeed from Facebook. I do try and interact with folks, but the stream of info is insane. I like the list feature because I ..."I didn't even know there was an autofeed feature... :/
BUT THOSE PESKY SPAM BOTS.
They make it hard for me to want to get into Twitter...
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Christina wrote: "I am the absolute worst on Twitter. I break the cardinal rule and just autofeed from Facebook. I do try and interact with folks, but the stream of info is insane. I like the list feature because I ..."I don't get Twitter either. Most of the posts looks like gibberish to me. :/ Yet so many people use it, I'm making an effort to try to understand it. (Doesn't work too well though.)
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I just post random things about what I'm doing or working on and end with writing or author hash tags like #amwriting or #indieauthor or #writerproblems
I'm pretty sure Twitter is just full of robots. It's like a bot's paradise! The hashtag? That's like a trendybot's Starbucks.Only a robot can say something "meaningful" in 140 characters.
Wait... you guys aren't robots, are you? It's cool if you are- I don't judge....
Christina is the one who recommended this group to me (Many thanks, Christina!).Here is the link to my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Checke...
I have the list of other Facebook links that I will go through and add. If you one of those mega-posters who posts several times an hour, I may not like your page, or if I do, I'll mute it. I'm not too particularly fond of people who flood my page. No offense, there are members of my own family I don't find that interesting either. :)
This is how I learned to work my social media...
I post project updates, perspectives on this or that subject, etc. to my blog. My blog is shared to Twitter, which is shared to Facebook. I post quick things to Twitter and sometimes pictures. So, if you follow me, Facebook receives the most details of my posts because of the linkage. However, I am much more active in the communities on Google+. I post semi-regularly on the others, but I like meeting new people and discussing various things with random strangers on Google+.
Anyway... It's wonderful to meet ya'll.
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I just made a run through here and liked everyone's FB page. Here's mine: https://www.facebook.com/danielpikekn...If you follow me on Twitter at @pikeknight, I will follow back.
In addition, I think I can answer some of the social media questions being tossed around, but the answers are somewhat bleak in terms of what you can actually do with Facebook these days.
Twitter is a better tool, but you have to know what to hashtag and have an audience that actually cares about what you're tweeting (which is tough). The next time you tweet something about your writing, try #IARTG and either #AMREADING if the book is published already or #AMWRITING if not. These seem to work a lot better than hashtagging the genre.
Thanks for the suggestions, Daniel. I've followed you on Twitter.I use the same hashtags consistently for my projects (when I remember), mainly so I can easily look up something later more than someone else trying to find it. Other hashtags I use are random, but relate to the post. For example, I posted something the other day about photobombing someone with the hashtag "#WhereIsWaldo". A friend of mine works in the social media industry, and tosses me nuggets every now and then. He's big into following others who follow you, because it expands that circle of reach. He also says to put a hashtag on every tweet, which also expands the reach. Also, he says promoting someone or something via social media can be a full time job. I actually know people who do that for a living for an ad agency.
Also, I have TweetDeck, but I have yet to figure out how to use it effectively enough.
Anyway, if anyone has a few minutes to nip over to FB and like my new author page, I'd be really grateful. (and happy to return the favour!)
https://www.facebook.com/DystopianIro...
Let's network! ;)