Not exact matches
Author: If I
tweet about this or that for three months, if I post on my Facebook page
about my
book or share a few
reviews, if I share a recipe board on Pinterest... how many
books will I sell?
Among other things, he's also the guy who writes
about your shows,
reviews your
books, runs your festival programming, DJs your parties,
tweets so you'll laugh, asks
about your legacy with comics, creates awesome podcasts you should hear — only awesome things, basically — and so much of what he puts into the world is free to enjoy.
-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting
books for Smashwords — Research
about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a
book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send
book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling
tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and
booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)
When you read
about one in a blog and it catches your fancy, the buy button is just a click away - and it's linked into the blog,
tweet, comment or
book review.
I have nearly 22,000 Twitter followers but unless I am
reviewing my own
book and
tweeting about it, that is not going to help me.
I will, however: — write in my blogs
about things other than publishing — work on my next novel and story collection — play lots of sims — write and share a short illustrated story, to see if I can —
tweet whatever I want — read and
review books when I want — make art, if I feel like it — make some new things for my Etsy shop — upload multitudes of unsorted travel photos from this summer — clean my house and get ahead of my laundry situation — help my son learn addition and subtraction — get away from the internet sometimes — experience daylight
But please don't let me read some
review or
tweet about a
book that's coming out next month and then not give me a way to get access to the sample before the
book publishes.
That isn't to say you shouldn't
tweet when your
book is releasing, or a great
review about it.