PublishNext

Social Media Tools and Training

Connecting to millions of potential readers through interactive media is the best way to build awareness of your book. This service gives you all of the profiles and memberships needed to allow you to share your work with a network of potential readers, fellow authors, industry associates, and peers. In addition to providing access to these tools, we will provide you with instruction in the best ways to leverage each site to build your audience.

Authors will receive access and training in some or all of the following accounts.

  • • Blog through your own WordPress site
  • • Facebook profile for you as an author
  • • Facebook page for your book
  • • MySpace page for your book
  • • Flickr account integrated with other social networks
  • • FeedBurner account to help you deliver your blog to the masses
  • • Shelfari social book account
  • • Goodreads social book account
  • • LibraryThing book cataloging account
  • • Twitter micro-blogging account

    For specific genres, additional memberships will be set up when available and appropriate. For example, Christian books may benefit from accounts on the following Christian social networks.

  • • ShoutLife
  • • Xianz
  • • TellYourTestimony
  • • Tangle (also hosts videos)
  • • DialogueOnline (also hosts forums)

Use of these sites is subject to each site’s Terms of Use and the site’s continued availability.