I
love interacting with readers through the blog or social media and have been blessed with some wonderful friends that I've met through blogging.
They also provide fantastic opportunities to
interact with readers through lists, forums, and Author Central pages, and allow easy control of pricing and promotions for all your titles.
Instead of making major design changes to your site, you should think about how you can manipulate the functionality of your site to
better interact with your readers.
On this social reading platform, authors can
interact with their readers by setting up giveaways and book discussion groups (so - called reading circles), more on that in this post.
In the interest
of interacting with readers, and being open to new ways of marketing our work, what should a responsible author do, aside from shoot cat videos?
A takeover is just like it sounds, an author takes complete control of the page in order to hold contests, answer questions and
even interact with readers.
Similarly, social media has provided a fantastic platform where you can
intimately interact with readers and create a lifelong fan base that you can promote to directly.
Now, this isn't a non-fiction example, but best - selling independent fiction author Amanda Hocking is very active on Twitter and
Facebook interacting with readers and promoting her books.
Some of this isn't the users» fault: Amazon has chosen to limit each note to 100 characters, which the FAQ also doesn't advertise — I learned it only from the blog of an author who hopes to
interact with his readers using Public Notes.
Given I've written and published so many books now, and have a solid backlist that continues to sell books even when I'm taking a break in between projects, it's very easy to become complacent and take a long break, or not do as many blog posts, or not
interact with my readers as much.
Publishers (again, self - or traditional) need to
start interacting with reader spaces in ways that preserve the boundaries between publishing and reading and need to figure out how to feed and nurture those spaces without threatening or compromising them.
Some writers are «absolutely brilliant»
at interacting with readers, while others «benefit from some extra guidance — after all, their first skill is in writing a good book, so it's a publicist's job to work alongside them to get the best outcomes».
Also, it's great fun to share parts of myself with others; I love growing those relationships, and I also love when authors I admire like J.K. Rowling and Stephen
King interact with readers via social media.
Experience-wise though, I
think interacting with readers, working with the Shonen Jump team here as well as working closely with our counterparts in Japan has been the most rewarding.