Social Networking Can Change Your Future in Writing

Facebook is an Outstanding way for Authors to get Known.

Social networking wasn’t very will known as few as five years ago, as far as authors using it to promote their books.

Now there are thousands of authors using this approach to reaching out to readers.

My Space, Twitter, You Tube, Friendster, Linkedin, etc, have become an important part of an author’s publicity kit.

On Facebook you can show videos, pictures, images, audio, and media, that will give the “friends,” plenty of information  on the author’s book.

On Twitter, you reach millions of people with one push of a key.  You can also promote your book there, but many use it more for social contact, and then “lure,” the contacts into their websites, or onto Facebook.

If you can build each of your Facebook, Twitter, Blog subscribers, My Space lists to over 2,000, you will do very well when your book finally comes out.

Having these many “followers” on each of these avenues, will also impress agents and publishers.

If you haven’t started working with these promotional techniques, I strongly suggest you look into each of these channels and see if they are for you.

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There are six more days left on the latest book give away, of the book, Moments This Good: The Softer Side of Alzheimer’s, Written by Bonnie Nester. Bonnie wrote about her mother Ruth.

Here is a review about the book:

“Nester offers the reader a path to gentle acceptance, and even moments of playfulness and joy-and always, always models profound love and respect for her mother.”

                                                                                                        Ellen Waterson

                                                                                           Author of the award-winning memoir, Then There was No Mountain and I am Madagascar.

Bonnie has many examples for caregivers on how to be loving, and understanding at the same time.

I know the need for that as I have a 92 year old mother that battles dementia.

I highly recommend her book, and Bonnie has autographed it along with a personal note to the reader.

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To have a chance to win this book, go to the right side bar and click on the icon that talks about subscribing to my free newsletter, Signs of Hope Press. Notice that it also says that you will be able to download a free eBook I have written called, The Top 25 Ways to Survive in a Troubled World. You can down load it when you receive the first newsletter.

So you get a free newsletter with several pages of good information. A free eBook with ways to cope, and chances to win free top selling books with many them having the author’s autograph, and personal note in them.

Go ahead and try. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain.

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Discussion of Drugs, Suicide, etc at www.signsofhope.com

                             There is Hope at www.dailysignsofhope.com

 

Talk about a dreary, depressing, title! However the words used are ones that are getting to common in our world today. I didn’t even mention battles we face like: self doubt, depression, fear, low self esteem, hopelessness, and the many other usual suspects.

www.dailysignsofhope.com just started up three days ago and it reaches out to those who suffer with all of the afflictions I just mentioned.

There will post there by: David Brown,  Michael Clark, and yours truly, Doug Bolton. We will take turns posting our thoughts on how to cope in this not so friendly world. Go there and check it out.

That is what my book, Signs of Hope: Ways to Survive in an Unfriendly World, is all about. It is a book that talks about my own battles with all of these demons and how I conquered. I also share how you can conquer them too.

Go to the right side bar and sign-up for my online newsletter, and you will receive excerpts from, Signs of Hope:Ways to Survive in an Unfriendly World. 

The newsletter has a total of four pages:

  • A front page that talks about my book, and thoughts of the day.
  •  Another page that is a sports page that talks about Oregon State University sport, and any other sports I think might be interesting.
  • A resource page where I share ways to cope in a troubled world.
  • The last page is a travel page for now, but in the near future it will be transformed into a writer’s page. It will have thoughts on,  How to Become Famous before you are Famous.

It will cover all the things you should be doing before you even approach and agent of a publisher. It will talk about the social networking. What to look for at conferences. Groups to join to have a good platform, etc.

I am very excited about this new page. It will be coming out in about a month  so tell all your writer friends to get signed up for the newsletter so they will be ready when it starts coming.

* Please remember that you can always go directly to the page you want and skip all the rest. Many people wan’t subscribe because they do not like one of the pages. Skip that page if you don’t like it.

You can also opt out any time you want. There is a spot at the bottom of each newsletter to do that.

I am still doing my free book give aways. Just have been too busy to keep them going on a regular bases.

Just had the 500th person subscribe!! That person will win a book if they respond to my email that I sent them.

Befefits of subscribing:

  1. Free newsletter
  2. Free eBook
  3. Free books in a drawing

Did I say they were all free?

Please tell everyone about this site. Word of mouth is the best way to have growth.

 

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Firefighting Burns in Aidan O’Neill’s Blood

A winner has been chosen in the drawing for the book, The Missionary. Glynn Young of St. Louis, MO is our winner. Congratulations Glynn.

There is a new promotion going on now that ends October 5th. It is another drawing for a free book. The book is called, Through the Fire, by Shawn Grady. The book has a personal note and autograph from Shawn.

Through the Fire, is the first novel for Shawn, but James Scott Bell, a well known best selling author of the book, DECEIVED, says, “A sizzling debut novel from a writer that really knows the goods.”

Here is a trailer from the book:

“An arsonist is targeting Reno, leaving a scorched path of destruction. The department needs Aidan back, but his return is troubled. The gift he relied on for so long has gone silent… and it’s as though the fires are coming for him, hunting him down. Teaming with a beguiling fire investigator who may know more then she’s saying, Aidan must discover where his trust rests as the flames burn ever closer.”

Aidan’s father was also killed in an arson fire, so he is trying to find out who killed him. Surprise ending and many great side stories.

All you have to do to get a chance to win the book is to go over to the right sidebar, and click on the icon that talks about subscribing.

You will notice that you also get my free eBook intitled, The Top 25 Ways to Survive in a Troubled World. This book has been selected to be used in the highschools for their Human realtions classes.

It shares many ways to cope in a not so friendly invironment. It is excellent for those who may be struggling with self doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, and the many other usual suspects. It is yours free if you subscribe to the free newsletter.

The newsletter has four pages:

  • One page will have excerpts from the book, Signs of Hope: Ways to Survive in an Unfriendly World. It may be a phrase, or a paragraph that gives you the feel of each chapter. There are 72 chapters.
  • Another page talks about travel. I have a guest posting his story right now. Ron Keleman, is telling us about his trip to India. It is a fasinating story of places that the tourists do not go to. Don’t miss this.
  • A third page is a sports page just for the many Oregon State University Beaver fans that come there to catch up on all the happenings going on in all the sports programs at OSU. It can be very interesting for others as well.
  • The last page is a resource page where I will share articles on coping with everyday life. This is a very popular page.

Everything I mentioned is free;

Free eBook; free newsletter, and free drawing for top selling books with the author’s autograph and personal notes in many of them.

You have absolutley nothing to lose. If you don’t like the newsletter, there is an opt out spot at the bottom of the newsletter.

Pleasse join me, and enjoy many issues of a great newsletter that has had some great endorsements.

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