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someone stops following subscribing friending you that way lies madness heartache and unnecessary hurt don t do it to yourself never get upset if someone stops following you they ve got their own social media survival guide and you should let them do what they need to do guilt free never beg for followers this makes the people who follow you already feel like livestock don t expect people you follow to follow you back if you re following them because they re interesting then it shouldn t matter if they don t follow you back again they ve got their own guide you don t need to follow everyone who follows you do whatever works for your life and lifestyle 4 don t create social guilt or impose on others this goes back to respecting other people s survival guides people who care about you will try to please you even if it causes them stress just don t put them in that position in the first place don t ask people to retweet blog or share anything if they want to they will asking them to creates obligation don t get upset if your friends don t retweet blog or share something you wanted them to you don t know what s going on in their lives and you don t know their survival guide don t take it personally don t expect people even close friends to read all of your tweets blog posts status updates if they don t for whatever reason don t take it personally their lives are about them not about you don t expect people to respond to your comments all the time it s great if they do but sometimes life gets in the way it s not always easy to respond to every tweet blog comment or like of facebook some people don t even check their social media every day and that s fine respect other people s survival guides that s pretty much it respect that we all have different survival guides don t take anything personally don t create obligation and be yourself feel free to share your survival guide tenants with me but please remember that my list isn t intended as an attack on your list unless we have exactly the same goals and the same lives there s no reason for us to have the same survival guide and if none of you read this share it or retweet it that s perfectly okay jenn reese writes science fiction and fantasy adventure stories for readers of all ages she has published short stories online and in various anthologies including the world fantasy award winning paper cities her first novel jade tiger is an action adventure kung fu romance for teens and adults her newest book above world a middle grade adventure series for candlewick press will be available in february 2012 posted by r l lafevers at 4 39 am 59 comments monday october 31 2011 grave mercy cover art i find myself in the position of having something exciting to share but no real blog home from which to share it my r l lafevers author blog has now become a part of my new middle grade website and my new ya website is not finished yet but i have a brand new cover to share so i m hoping you will not mind if i take a moment to unveil it here plus i am sick with a horrid chest cold and have absolutely zero ability to write a decent post for today whine ta da this is the cover for my upcoming ya as you can see it is quite a bit different in tone and feel from theodosia or nathaniel fludd that and the older target audience has necessitated a slightly different author name as well as a new still under construction website once again i am in awe of houghton mifflin s art department pinches self posted by r l lafevers at 4 27 am 45 comments monday october 24 2011 lia keyes making full use of goodreads with more than 3 million members goodreads is the largest social network for readers if you re an author and you re not controlling the content on your automatically generated goodreads profile you re missing out on a major opportunity to reach readers who haven t yet heard of you and connect more deeply with those who have you may already have a website with a blog you may be on facebook and twitter you may be thinking you can t possible deal with another social network time suck but goodreads should be a vital part of any truly efficient author marketing plan why because you want to reach as many readers as possible right not all of them are on twitter facebook is fabulous but it s not just about reading goodreads is where you ll find the deepest concentration of confirmed book addicts looking for the next great read they go there to catch the gossip join groups focused on their favorite genres vote for the best book covers book titles and myriad other topics you can get involved in the discussions there find new friends and fans and present your best front to readers who don t visit your website or blog or twitter or facebook accounts because they don t know you exist yet there are lots of social networks for readers librarything is another but goodreads is far and away the most versatile and interactive place to promote your book even before you ve published you can make friends and build a following by being an active member of the community to build an online presence and wait for visitors is naive go where the readers are create a goodreads profile that drives traffic to your blog once they arrive at your blog you ll be able to lead them through a customized exploration of your online world but you ve got to get them there first setting up a goodreads profile is easy register as an author if you re published to do this search for one of your books then click on your name this will take you to an author profile page at the bottom of that page you ll find a link that says is this you click on that to request admission to the author program after you ve been approved you can upload an image of yourself enter a short biography make sure you get your website url in the first two sentences as the rest gets cut off with a read more link once you ve saved it update your goodreads blog section from your current blog via rss so you don t have to manually add posts this will save you a lot of time add your book trailer there s a section on your newly created profile that says videos about your name click the link that says add new fill in the form and upload the video it s important to tag the video appropriately as goodreads automatically adds your video to various video lists according to the tags you choose if in doubt check the profile of an author working in your genre to see what tags they ve used or browse the video lists to see which ones you d like to appear on and use the tag that will take readers there click explore videos to see the lists add your book to lists you can categorize your books into lists here either create a new list or search the existing lists and add your books there your book s position on the list is dependent on votes so bring friends and followers over to vote for it and watch it rise closer to the top of the list and gain more exposure join relevant groups goodreads groups are a great way to make friends with readers interested in your genre or topic but it s not an opportunity to spam really make friends with others who share your interests and fascinations just like your other online presences this is your chance to participate in a two way conversation and form a personal connection list your book for a give away at the top right of your book s page there s a link that says list this book for a give away avid readers are always short of money so give aways are popular and a great way to garner more exposure for your book add dialog excerpts to the quotes section is snappy dialog your forte showcase it by including an excerpt in the favorite quotes section of your profile cassandra clare and neil gaiman are examples of how this can work to your advantage create a q a with your name group i ve seen this used really effectively especially around book launch time notably by cassandra clare you can set a date for when you ll be available to answer questions perhaps a window of three days promote it heavily for a week or so before inviting questions in advance then prepare to spend a busy three days answering them all but with a pre advertised end to your involvement this is not something that will continue to eat up your time set a moderator to watch the group in your absence to alert you to any unpleasant or inaccurate chatter and check in once a month to see what s being said this is a great market research opportunity for your next book when you next want to conduct a limited time q a session you can edit the group description with the new dates find out more here events quizzes trivia questions and more add your book signing engagements and author appearance events here if you have a short story or excerpt you d like to share as a teaser you can add it to your author profile you ll want to add the right tags to it before saving once it s tagged readers will either find it on your profile or search on the stories and writing page here visit the page and you ll understand why tags are important create a quiz here or ask a trivia question here to get people interacting with each other and talking about your book advertise your book while most of the strategies i share here are free social media options this is one time where spending some money might not be a bad idea after all this site is full of readers right check out the rates and info here link everything up at the top of your profile page you ll see two tabs apps and widgets these two pages have everything you need to seamlessly link up your facebook twitter myspace iphone and blog without links your goodreads profile is only half as effective as it might otherwise be i ve added the goodreads facebook app to my facebook fan page for instance which creates a tab on my facebook fan page that shows fb users who like me a mini goodreads profile page right there on facebook effectively exploding the potential number of people who get to see it you can also add your twitter account so that you can automatically let twitter followers know what you re reading every time you update your book list there s quite a variety of widgets you can add to your blog s sidebar or your website too i particularly like the favorite quotes one but there are also widgets for showcasing the books you ve read your tbr pile your favorites or your own books are you convinced yet you should be as the largest social network for readers on the net you need to be there and if you set up a page and want to show it off feel free to leave a link to your page in the comments here so we can friend you lia keyes is a british expat writer of speculative fiction for young adults represented by laura rennert andrea brown literary agency thank you so much lia for this most comprehensive explanation of all goodreads has to offer posted by r l lafevers at 4 02 am 211 comments labels goodreads monday october 17 2011 the long slow slog toward mastery i started reading malcom gladwell s outliers this week and i thought it would be interesting to look at the number of hours we ve spent writing gladwell talks about how it takes around 10 000 for a person to achieve mastery in any field it made me curious to see where i fell on that spectrum one of the things that gladwell also talks about is that any person s success isn t only about passion or talent or hard work more nebulous things like opportunity and access also come into play looking over my numbers i see a couple of glaring advantages i ve had one the luxury of having a supportive spouse with excellent health care benefits which allowed me the time to accumulate some of those hours also a job that allowed me to write on the job and thus practice my craft and get paid for it as well hours spent writing 1994 500 1995 500 1996 200 went back to school for a year 1997 750 got a pt job but one for which writing was a part of what i did 1998 750 1999 750 2000 600 2001 600 2002 700 2003 1500 quit to write full time 2004 1500 2005 1500 2006 1500 reached my first 10 000 hour mark this year w00t 2007 1500 2008 1500 2009 1500 2010 1500 year end total 17 350 hours so how about you how far along are you on your first 10 000 hours of writing posted by r l lafevers at 4 46 am 46 comments monday october 10 2011 what sells middle grade books a long time ago in a blogosphere far away i promised i d talk about what sells middle grade books then promptly got swept up in writing and revising my ya trilogy oh the irony but today i am finally pulling this topic out of my hat since so many of the components of mg sales are teachers librarians and school visits it seems an especially appropriate time to discuss this now that school is back in session and fall is in the air one of the kind of funny things about mg is that when you talk to publishing houses and editors they all bemoan the lack of mg and talk about how they are on the hunt for great mg books but it is ya that gets all the sparkly attention higher advances bigger publicity push and often higher sales numbers in fact it is rare for a publisher to put a big publicity push behind an mg title unless it is part of a series and already a proven big seller with ya there is a better chance of hitting the publicity lottery because there are simply more opportunities if you look at pw s list of bestsellers for 2010 which lists 546 titles only 108 of those were middle grade books 2009 was had similar numbers with only 96 middle grade bestsellers out of a list of 500 titles part of that is because ya has a huge crossover potential to adult readers there are huge numbers of adults who very happily read ya but not mg also marketing to ya readers is more of a cause and an effect it s easier to reach them because they re older online and the role of the gatekeeper is not as much of a driving force in getting the word out about the book also in general there are generally lower sales expectations for mg titles and slightly more willingness to wait for the slow build that happens as mg filters through the system many of the things listed below don t even happen until a year or so after a book has been out that means having enough publisher support to keep it in print long enough to find its audience as well as accruing small sales milestones and accomplishments along the way it means keeping the book out there long enough for the right people to stumble upon it and begin taking notice it often means smaller advances so the publisher has less capital invested upfront and can allow for that slower build tools in the middle grade sales arsenal write an amazing book no seriously this cannot be said enough write a book impossible to ignore or one that people cannot wait to press into eager readers hands good industry reviews once upon a time they only had to be good reviews but a star or two never hurts especially with more and more library budgets being cut they must radically prioritize their purchases and often will rely on starred reviews to do that however do not panic if your bo...