Nonfiction
How Can Authors Use Social Media to Find Readers for Their Books?
As a self-published author, you might consider using social media to introduce yourself to potential readers of your book. With LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, you have a huge audience for exposure. Generally, fiction entertains and nonfiction educates. Since I mostly work with nonfiction authors, I’ll expand on that. As an expert, your nonfiction book shares your expertise to reach a wider, larger audience than you do with your services. And where can you find a larger audience than social media? You’ll also want to build your author platform to maximize your reach. Attract ideal readers Your goal when posting on social media is to find and attract readers, those who fit your ideal audience. How do you do that? First, make them…
Read MoreWhy are you writing your book & why will readers buy it?
I always ask my nonfiction book coaching and copy editing clients two questions before we begin any work on their book: The first steps The first step to writing a book or ebook is to determine these two motivations: Let me clarify what these mean. Author motivation can include a variety of goals such as: You may have a different motivation, so think about what it is and write it down. Or you may have more than one. As you move through the process of writing a book or ebook and confront challenges or distractions, you need to connect with your motivation(s) to keep your forward momentum. (Don’t even think you won’t have distractions or excuses, because you will; that’s why it’s so important to…
Read MoreWhy I’m a fan of ebooks
With an ebook, you start with your idea, check the competition, write your short ebook of 30-50 pages, have it edited, and upload it to Amazon and other booksellers. You can do this all for only several hundred dollars (mostly for the editing) and in a short amount of time.
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