how to use social media to help promote your books

 

Promoting books can be challenging, but we live in a world where social media can be really a valuable tool to promote your books. 

Using social media for your writing can be difficult but not impossible. I have all my writing social media separate from my main social media. I run a blog, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook page and podcast all to do about writing. 

It can be hard to juggle it all but find what social media will work best for you and go with it, I don’t use tiktok for my writing but I could if I really wanted too. 

The key is be consistent and don’t always promote your work do it sparking and upload content about writing in general and then share your work every now and then. This is the process I have found to work for me the most. 

I post every second day on my Instagram and Facebook page, once a week on my podcast, twice a day on my Twitter as I can. This might be too much for you but what ever schedule you decide make sure you stick to it. 

Do your research on keywords and use them effortlessly so that you can get the most views possible on your work. Don’t use hashtags with a lot of posts but don’t use ones with only a couple because you won’t get seen that way look for the middle ground. 

My last tip is to have fun with it. 

What are your tips for social media promoting and writing? Let me know in the comments. 

My favourite author quotes

 

Author quotes are something that amaze me, this is my updated favourite author quote list

• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. - Ernest Hemingway
• A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Quiet people have the loudest minds. -Stephen King
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
  
•  writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. -Thomas Mann
• The most effective way to do it, is to do it. -Amelia Earhart 
  

Writing update July 2022

 

Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve done a writing update, so I thought I would jump on and write away update on how my writing is going because a lot has happened since my last one.

Where to start is going to be the tricky bit. I think I’m going to start with project hybrid. I have almost finished editing the book. There are only five more days of editing, and then the read-through I have sent it away to 2 different agents, which marks 4 agents in total the book has been sent to The first two declined the book because it wasn’t what they were looking for at the moment but I’m waiting to hear back from the two newest agents.

project endometriosis is being rewritten because a lot has changed with research and also my personal life so I’ve decided to completely re-write the book with the original draft being the basis of the structure  

other than that I’m only working on one other book and that is project gang and I’m really excited ants definitely a different one from my normal writing style but I’m really enjoying writing it I’m doing it for nanowrimo July 2022 and I’m already 3000 words into the first manuscript.

How have you guys booked been going let me know in the comments I am excited for you guys to check in and let me know.

how to speed up the blog process

 I know running a blog can be hard work when all you want to be doing is getting back and writing, but it is an essential part of promoting yourself and your work, but the question comes can you speed up the process on how you write a blog? And if so, how do you do it?

The answer is yes; you can speed up the blog writing process. It takes me less than ten minutes to write a blog post which is insane. That doesn’t count into any time I have to research, though. 

The second question is a bit harder, but I’m going to do my best to explain how I do it. 

Obviously, the first step is if it needs some time to research, I do that first and take notes. I then open up the word document on my phone, whatever that may be. For instance, I use Google Docs, but you could use anything 

I then turn on voice to text and just speak my blog post. It takes a lot less time, and from there, all I simply have to do is make a blog graphic edit my work and make sure it makes sense less than 10 minutes for a 500 to 1000-word blog post, which is a lot quicker than if I was to write it all by hand and do the research at the same time I like to research when my daughter goes to bed and then when I’m walking her around because she’s in a bad mood and just wants cuddles I then make my blog post

Which says more time for writing and editing my novels and of Las

Which says more time for writing and editing my novels and novellas.

How do you speed up your blog writing process? Let me know in the comments, and I hope I’ll see you guys for the next blog post

My typical writing routine

 

Now that I have a child to also take care of my typical writing routine has changed a lot very quickly and while I’m still trying to juggle everything I almost have it down packed. 

Each week I focus on a different thing but I only ever have two books on the go. 

One week I will be editing one book and the next week I am writing a different book but I now refuse to change which book I’m writing or editing until the previous book is done. 

If I get writers block I take a week off and then the next week I look into agents and a plan of how to publish before diving back into editing. 

I try and write or edit for thirty minutes a day, typically this is once baby goes to sleep before I follow but sometimes I will use speech to text on my phone on the writing weeks to get more words quickly while I’m doing housework. 

When I have to edit things get harder but I am doing a lot on my phone right now so I have Grammarly installed on my phone to help me edit on the go. 

I try and brainstorm when I am in the car and I have nothing better to do while I sit passenger. 

This routine doesn’t work all the time and I can’t wait for it to be more consistent so I can really concur my writing but for now this is what I’m left with and that’s okay. 

Ways to find me online

I have been getting asked questions recently about the best way to follow what I have going on at the moment and I thought what better time to make this blog post. 

I have a range of social media you can follow me on

My linktrees hold all my information in one place:

https://linktr.ee/phoesrules

https://linktr.ee/Beautyqueensbeautys

To hear about my writing the best places to go are. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhoebeM.C.Author

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/phoesrules

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoebe_m.c/

Blog: https://phoebe-mc.blogspot.com/

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/713VkYcY6p7BVeDLUDbhFF?si=o5DcSPN9SH-f9XEb8WD4qg

If you want to see more of my day to day life the best place for that is my 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoesrules

And 

Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSdjKjnsB/

For YouTube related things. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youtubesbeautyqueen/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/beautyqueen145

Interview with a book character

Today I decided to give you an inside look at one of my WIP characters with an interview. 

This character is from my WIP titled project hideaway

 1. What is your name?

My name is Anastasia, but I go by Anna.

2. How old are you?

I am twenty human years old but I am really 60.

3. Where were you born?

I was born in a small village called crescent which was wiped out when I was eight years old. 

4. What did your father and mother do for a living?

My father was a slaughterman for one of the local farmers and my mother was a stay at home mum. 

5. Were you well off? Middle class? Impoverished?

We were neither impoverished nor middle class; we did okay for ourselves but couldn’t say we lived any sort of luxurious life. 

6. Do you have siblings? If so, what are their names and ages?

I had an older sister named Camilla who would passed away from illness when she was fifteen. 

7. Where do you fall in the birth order? The oldest, youngest? 

I am the youngest. 

8. Which one of you is your mother’s favourite? 

Camilla was my mother's favourite. 

9. Why?

She was always the golden child and the most intelligent if only she could see me now. 

10. How did you feel about that?

I wasn’t too happy about it, I went out of my way to try and impress my mother but it never worked which was my downfall. 

11. When you were a child, what was one thing you could always be sure of?

When I was younger I could always be sure that I could get away with anything I wanted because no one paid attention to me; not my family or the town. 

12. What was something you were never sure of?

I was never sure if I would ever be noticed by someone until I was ten years old when I was noticed by Jacob. 

13. Where did you grow up? Is this a place you’d go back to now? Or avoid?

I grew up in the town over from Crescent called moonlight I would avoid moonlight at all costs now because if I ever went back I would be stoned. 

14. Do you still have friends there? Or family?

Everyone from my past died a long time ago. 

15. How did you do in school? 

I never actually went to school, I was told I didn’t need to because I would never get anywhere in life but once I grew up and got away from my family I started to teach myself everything I needed to know. 

16. What was your favourite subject?

I loved to learn math it was my favourite thing to learn once I started to teach myself things I needed to know to survive with the ever-changing world. 

17. What was your greatest talent?

My greatest talent is running, I’m like a lightning bolt in the night you see me one second and the next I’m gone. 

18. What did you do badly?

I was never one for art. 

19. What is your life like at the moment?

My life at the moment is something I have pride in, I built myself up over the years to be someone I am happy with.