Comments on: Selling Our Books on Social Media–Don’t Be a Personal Space Invader

By: Robynn Gabel

Robynn Gabel — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:53:26 +0000

Again, Excellent! I can say first hand that I have encountered this. Old friend saw my FaceBook, looked around, saw I had written a book, and wallah! Sold book. Common sense information. Thank you.

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By: tjgholar

tjgholar — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 13:49:49 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this! It really needed to be said. I am an artist, and am so tired of people using my Facebook fan page to advertise their work! Get your own page. I am also losing patience with the “social media experts” who follow me on Twitter expecting me to follow back. What I need is to have more art collectors following me, not useless spammers. they’re a plague on social media.

By: E.b. Black

E.b. Black — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:25:06 +0000

I usually ignore ads all together, but certain ones have gotten on my nerves before and caused me to unfollow certain people, but it has to be extreme.

I’m glad to know my social media plan is headed in the right direction. I WILL NOT be tweeting about my book even one a day, I won’t be putting it at the end of my blog posts unless I’m on a guest blog, but I will mention it occasionally, when appropriate. What I’m going to try to do is make friends and hope that sales happen, too, eventually and we’ll see what happens.

Still, authors do this tweeting about their book over and over again on twitter so much that this guy said he didn’t want to talk to me on twitter because I had the word “author” in my description and that must mean I wasn’t really interested in being his friend and was just trying to sell something to him. I don’t even have anything for sale yet, so that was literally impossible.

I like to socialize, too. Honestly, focusing on socializing more than advertising is just as pleasurable to the person trying to sell the books as to the people who could potentially buy your books.

By: Honey A Hutson

Honey A Hutson — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:01:27 +0000

I completely agree with you. As a writer, I understand the drive to “get your book and yourself out there.” As a person, more than once in a while – really bugs me, therefore I try not to do that to others. In fact I don’t often mention the books on my personal page, I leave that for the book’s page and only post (only one or two posts at a time) every other day about a lot of things, not just the book. It has been well received as only those liking that page get that information.

By: Jack Whitsel

Jack Whitsel — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:19:57 +0000

Wonderful article. Advice and insight that should be adopted by our writing colleagues.

By: bardessdmdenton

bardessdmdenton — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:23:05 +0000

Thank you for this, Kristen. I am in agreement with your approach, and have tried to nurture and expand the relationships I have through my blog, that although a nice venue to promote my novel, is mainly a dialogue – much of it creative – between me and the friends I continue to make through it. I was recently guilty of invading someone’s ‘private space’ on FB (did so quite spontaneously and without thinking much about it …) and was quickly reprimanded and rightly so!

By: Kimberly Packard

Kimberly Packard — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:00:04 +0000

Great post, Kristen! I’m all about supporting my fellow Indie authors, but I’ve un-followed those who post “buy my book, buy my book, buy my book” 20 times a day. Thank you for sharing!

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