Recently I attended a conference sponsored by my local chapter of the Romance Writers of America(RWA). The speaker was Kristen Lamb, blogger and author. She did a presentation on how to use a blog to promote yourself as a author.
Her advice included posting a blog about three times a week at a minimum. I am lucky to get one post a week in. She also had us go through an exercise of a word cloud to list things which described us or in which we had an interest. From our word clouds she suggested topics we could use to blog about.
Since that time I have been noticing which of my favorite authors blog, or use social media, or link their blogs to their social media. One of my favorite authors is J.T. Ellison. She does three blogs a week and links them to her social media (at least Facebook). I look forward to those postings every week. They cover a wide variety of topics, not just writing, and allow me to get a glimpse of her as a writer and a person.
As a result of the presentation I learned new ways of presenting myself as an author. I know that I need to work regularly on promoting myself also. I also need to find what works for me.
Previously I wrote about how writing fiction is hard. Being an author is hard work also.
What do you think? Would you follow a blog or would it be better to stick with social media? Should I focus on both and post the blog to Facebook and Twitter?
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