Coming March 25th… Goodreads

RWchat 3-25-18

March is Social Media Marketing Month on #RWchat, and we’re focusing on the platforms widely used for book marketing.

Goodreads is the reader hangout, and a jungle all on its own. From its brutally honest reviews to its yearly reading challenges to its never ending To-Be-Read lists, it serves as a hub for reader hangout. But for authors it can be a tread-lightly-dangerous ground. Or is it? Come chat with us about how you use Goodreads as a writer for promo and as a reader for discovering books, Sunday 4pm PT / 7pm ET on #RWChat

Guest Post: Engaging on Twitter Outside of #RWChat

shutterstock_321433031We’re talking about social media marketing all month long and the wonderful and ever-talented Harper Miller wrote us a little something about building up engagement on Twitter!

Social media is my jam, and it’s probably because I’m a social butterfly outside of the World Wide Web. It’s no secret I want to know all the people! Every author is told that to build a following, you need accounts on the Top Three Social Media Websites: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I have accounts on those platforms, and a few others, but sometimes those additional platforms can be tedious, so I barely use them. My Holy Grail of social media platforms is Twitter. Continue reading