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Social media for authors

 adhutchinson

So, there seems to be quite a few questions from authors around how to best utilize social media for book marketing. And there’s a lot to it – to provide some extra help on this front, I’ve expanded on my recent posts on Facebook and Twitter tips and put them into a downloadable PDF, if anyone needs.

Through my day job as content and social media marketing manager for leading social media news website Social Media Today, I’ve provided insights, training and consulting to a range of companies in order to help them formulate more effective social media marketing strategies, while I also regularly appear on ABC radio programs to outline the latest social media updates and shifts.

And while the presentation here is fairly basic (I’m no designer), the notes provided will put you on the right track to maximizing Facebook and Twitter for book promotion.

Feel free to share with anyone who needs:

Social Media for Authors  

#AdHutchinson  #SocialMediaForAuthors   #Writing  #PromotBooks

Though the rains have hammered the Eastern States, it’s a huge relief  which comes with a warning.

Photo Credit: The Guardian Report

I’m looking forward to the concert ‘Fire Fight Australia’  on Sunday night although I can’t attend in person I can donate and watch the live telecast thinking of all those who have been effected by the horrible bushfires.

I remember well how frightening it was to hear of the toll taken by one of our favourite haunts in Western Australia.

Our Fudge stall

Town Lady & my hubby

Moondyne Joe

Customers sampling our wares

As commercial fudge producers we attended the colourful and effusive Toodyay Festival  celebrating the infamous jail escapee/larrikin Moondyne Joe, before the fire in March 2009 and after, until we retired.

On the 29th December 2009, Toodyay suffered the loss of 60 buildings – 38 of them homes,  started by a power pole which fell and ignited a horrendous fire, sweeping mercilessly through the beautiful hills and valleys of Toodyay. 

Allen Henshaw chronicled the before and after, in his video about the horrendous fires which pays particular attention to the amazing team of Fire Fighters who eventually stopped the voracious monster in it’s tracks.  

In May this year the regular Moondyne Festival will be held but also a Toodyay Bush Poetry Festival  held in October over three days.  The community does festivals well, so we will be making our way over to attend.  Perhaps I can even gather enough courage to read  my poem written in response and later published  or perhaps write some new…

Toodyay  

black ash still lay
where fire had licked
with devil tongues
across the road-side gravel

perhaps a careless cigarette
city slicker thrown
on community fun day
to re-enact Moondyne Joe

quick fire prowled up
summer-dry gullies
stand of ridge trees
wind-break – not fire-breaker

no escape allowed
as bright yellow jackets
smother white foam
contain the bush fire danger

gumtree pale striped
old bark peeled back
green growth beauty
black trees juxtaposed

fresh life canopies
halt Dieback spores
spiked hair sprouts
thousand years and counting

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2009

#BushfireRelief  #AussieBushefires  #ToodyayFire2009   #POEM:Toodyay  #MoondyneFestival  #ToodyayBushPoetryFestival

#POEM:TouristTrap   #PoemByTom   #TOMPoet  #WriteOutLoud

I found this so useful: word counts for children’s books.  

#WritingForChildren  #WordCounts  #ChildrensBooks  #Writing

Jonathan Happold is a veterinarian and epidemiologist based in Canberra. He wrote his poem, Melanoma Country on 2nd January 2020 as south east Australia was on fire. He included the following:  READ MORE

And my own contribution to the subject…  Desertification

#MelanomaCountry   #DrJonathanHappold #ClimateChange  #BushfireTragedy   

Well done to Jessie Lendennie and her team at Salmon Poetry for publishing the most books of poetry between 2013 and 2018.

It is a great shame the Irish Times haven’t spread their reviews equally to include more female poets or reflect the hard work and dedication shown to Irish Poets by Salmon Poetry.  Only 13 reviews out of a possible 190 poetry books published is not a good reflection on The Irish Times.

#SalmonPoetry  #JessieLendennie  #No1IrishPoetryPublisher  #DedicatedToIrishPoets  #IrishTimesReviews  #PoetryReviews  #IrishPublisher