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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Everyone thinks social media is the way to your audience and it is, but you need to do it properly. Just saying hi, check out my book is a sure way of making me ignore it for the most part.
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Yes. There's an element of playing the game that most like to see. While there's nothing wrong with flogging your product in any venue so long as you observe the rules, protocol is more complicated.
Moreover, I think participation can be a good litmus test for quality. I don't hang out there, but I know there's a writer's workshop thread as well as a self-promotion thread and that seems like a terrific resource to me. Getting people (and a self-selected market for your product, on top of that) to beta your work out of sheer friendliness and helpfulness--why wouldn't you avail yourself of that? Instead of just showing up to say, "I just wrote the cleverest, funniest ebook evah!" I'm almost guaranteed to roll my eyes and think, "uh, no."
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'll take an honest (even if it is gratuitous) "Dine and Dash" over segue-challenged sock-puppetry any day. 
"Hey, speaking of dangling participles, I just read this really cool urban fantasy by a brand-new author that I think you'd like." |
And it's always effective when you treat your potential market like idiots, too.