Maryland Writer's Association Meeting: Social Media's Role in Your Book Journey

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;} Presenter: Lakita Wilson    Social Media is an essential element for marketing your book and should be developed as soon as you begin writing your book. In each stage of the book writing and production process, you should spend equal amounts of time developing your online presence and creating an audience. In this presentation, you will learn how to create content that will draw readers to your page, which hashtags you should use to effectively reach a wider audience of readers, and strategies for engaging your followers and keeping them interested in you as a brand.   Presentation Objectives:  The writer will understand which social media platform is most useful for the types of books they plan to write; will learn new updates on hashtags and the new 2019 policies Instagram has put in place and how this affects visibility; and will learn how to create appealing content for their platforms to draw in potential readers.