“I want to write a book, but I don’t want to do any of the social media stuff”, this is something that I hear on an almost daily basis from writers and authors.
That is fair enough, and absolutely your prerogative, but what I usually say to this is “if people don’t know you exist, how will they know you wrote a book that they might want to buy? And most authors write because they want to sell more books.
The reply is usually a look of confused silence, a reply that their friends will buy the book and tell people. Let me tell you that you will need a lot, and I mean a lot, of very loyal friends if your whole future writing career is going to be based on their buying your products.
Or sometimes people say “ahh ah! so do traditional publisher do all your marketing? If so, I will be traditionally published, and they can do all the marketing for me.”
At which point I give a big sigh and tell them that is not how it works either. Only the big names, the already successful get the marketing budgets, events and publicity.
I know that sounds daft, but that is the business, and it is a business my friend.
At this point one of two things tend to happen – people decide to write and not care whether they sell any books, or they want to have an author career and they accept that learning how authors use social media will help them to achieve that.
You do not need to do everything, it is not necessary to blog, and be on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat etc. But you will need to do something to connect with your potential readers.
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