10 Social Media Goals for Author Promotion

Twitter, Facebook, Good Reads and More
When and where should authors use social media? I recently read a blog post about how businesses are using social media. Here, I go through these 10 purposes and muse about how authors might use social media for the same reasons.

Who is Reading Your Work?

Online Tools I Use Daily
As a writer and blogger, I use several tools daily to check on my published work and my online work.
To Monitor Sales of my Published Books
Salesrankexpress.com
This site will quickly return

format

Does Format change a story?
Format. Yes, it makes a difference. How you present information or how you present a story make a difference to the text. For example, I’ve been wanting to write

Type

Do you ever type up someone else’s picture book or a chapter from someone else’s book? I do. I find that just reading a selection, even reading aloud, doesn’t

Revising for Audience

I’m writing a picture book that I know should work. But it’s not.
Consider the Picture Book Audience

Part of the problem with this story is that it’s set in a commercial kitchen and I have a kid who wants to cook. Critiquers tell me that the writing is great, the kid is great, but they [...]

Audience

Do you pay attention to your audience when you write, or do you write for yourself, an audience of one?
PW’s Shelf Talker Josie Leavitt has an interesting posting on when toddlers pick out their own books. Even as toddlers, boys and girls choose books differently. Both are passionate about the books they love and both [...]

Kids

Keeping in touch with kids is hard sometimes. I’ve been working on lists of picture book ideas for Friday Ideas and I find myself writing nonsense! No kid would be interested in some of the ideas I put down.
Then, my grand-daughter came to visit and I remembered what I must never forget: kids have a [...]

The Dual Audience for Picture Books

This entry is part 5 of 31 in the series 30 DAYS TO A STRONGER PICTURE BOOK
After you’ve written the first draft of the picture book, let it cool off a week. While it’s cooling off, I’ll cover a few other things about audience and dealing with illustrations. Then, we’ll get to the [...]