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SHARING WITHOUT READING—HOW AUTHORS CAN FIND READERS FOR THEIR ONLINE CONTENT

By: Cate Baum

We’re faced with a huge social pressure of being ‘engaged online’ to sell our books as self-publishers, but is our carefully-crafted content being absorbed?

As authors are encouraged to guest blog, interview, and post on all possible outlets online, is this just throwing it all at the wall when the evidence shows people share to look cool, erudite, and popular, rather that sharing what they have read?

In a world where “RIP *insert really ancient and intriguingly cool famous person’s name I never heard of before today here*” is a way to make your Facebook page pop, and picture quotes from Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King or Nelson Mandela are almost impossible to avoid on a regular basis on our social walls as users clamor (ironically) to make themselves look learned, how can we break through and make people read our stuff rather than hitting that “share” button without thinking? Does it matter if they don’t read it?

Correlation Between Sharing and Reading

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Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. That Overused Word "Community"—But Why We Still Have to Talk About It | Jane Friedman http://ow.ly/N36Au
2. Introduction to Kboards | Indies Unlimited http://ow.ly/N389i
3. How to Reduce Errors in Your Blog Posts - How to Blog a Book http://ow.ly/N38aC
4. Social Media: How Writers Should Interact - Write Hacked http://ow.ly/N38bE
5. Sharing Without Reading – How Authors Can Find Readers For Their Online Content | Self-Publishing Review http://ow.ly/N38eM
6. Copyediting or Proofreading? Getting the Most for Your Editing Dollar by Corina Koch MacLeod and Carla Douglas http://ow.ly/N38jH
7. Increasing Sales on an Old or Flagging Series | Lindsay Buroker http://ow.ly/N39wW
8. Laundering Lines: Converting Excess Exposition into Dialogue | Drew Chial http://ow.ly/N39zd
9. Is There An Unfinished Chapter in Your Life Suitable for Publication? - Where Writers Win http://ow.ly/N39Bq
10. How to select the right linguists for your job http://ow.ly/N39Hr
11. Anne R. Allen's Blog: How NOT To Win A Writing Contest: 7 Deadly Story Sins http://ow.ly/N39Vn
12. 32 Brilliant Things Every Book Lover Needs In Their Home http://ow.ly/N39WF
13. Social Media for Authors Podcast: Twitter Templates, Tips and Hints - Social Media Just for Writers http://ow.ly/N3a0D
14. Kick Ass Book Launch Tips (from Two Authors Who Really Know) http://ow.ly/N3ajl
15. Author Websites, Blogs, and Book Sales Pages — The Book Designer http://ow.ly/N3akN
16. Writability: On Writer Insecurities http://ow.ly/N3aoz
17. Improve Your Ability to Concentrate http://ow.ly/N3at5
18. Help – my characters are all too similar! 5 tips to make them distinct | Nail Your Novel http://ow.ly/N3tAN
19. Anne R. Allen's Blog: Paid Reviews: Why Authors Should NEVER Buy Amazon Reader Reviews http://ow.ly/N41S9

Happy writing and running, Kathy