Want to sell your book? When you write a book, selling it starts as soon as you get the idea. You need to build your audience. Do that while you write, and you’re golden. (One of the easiest ways to build an audience is by blogging.)

Blogging is a form of social media. You interact with your audience, and as your network grows, your opportunities grow.

There are many social media sites, and while you’re writing your book, you need to become active on at least one or two of them.

Book Marketing Bestsellers: Promoting and selling your books to a worldwide audience. The Book Promotion Blog! suggests:

“Use Twitter to find a journalist to target for your book/niche. Search for journalists on WeFollow and search.twitter.com. Listen to what they are tweeting about, Retweet them and get noticed. Build a relationship and then pitch. You can also set up a Twilert for your niche topic and you will receive a daily email with who is talking about it. Join the conversation and get noticed.”

As a writer, sites like Twitter and Facebook are invaluable to you, but only if you’re aware of them.

How to use social media while you’re writing a book

While you’re writing, build your audience. Please realize that you build your audience one person at a time. If you understand this, publishers will love you.

You can also use social media to research and get insights for your book — find experts to interview. Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, the social media sites make it easy to find experts.

How to use social media to sell your book

If you become active on the social media while you’re writing, you’ll find it easier to sell your book, even before you finish it. You can find literary agents, and acquisitions editors on the social media sites — or I should say, they’ll find you.

Self-publishing? The social media build your audience, so that you get more sales.

Befuddled by Twitter? You’ll be amazed at how many writers, editors, agents and buyers of your writing use it

Be where the action is with “Twitter for Writers: Achieve Writing Success 25 Words at a Time”, your guide to micro blogging for writers.

Alexandra Penney began blogging The Bag Lady Papers, a blog about losing all her money at the Daily Beast.

Now Memoirs of a Hermès bag lady | The Guardian reports:

“A year on, Penney has turned The Bag Lady Papers into a book, published in the US next week. When I called her in Manhattan on Thursday, she started by sounding upbeat: ‘In very many ways, it was a fantastic year. I got to travel – a magazine hired me to go to Africa which I would never have done in my previous life – and that was a big thing for me as I thought I would not be able to travel anymore.’”

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If you wish, you can join me on the blogging journey. I hope you do. As the Internet grows ever larger, there are endless opportunities which can turn you into a lazy, rich blogger.

If you’re writing a book, the happy day may arrive when your agent calls you to let you know she’s had an offer.

At this stage, don’t go mad with euphoria. Keep your wits about you, and be especially careful with the advance against royalties.

Think of your very first book advance in terms of your career. A small advance is not the end of the world, however, it signals that the publisher doesn’t have that much confidence in your book. Low confidence equals a low first printing, and a low first printing means that your book won’t be widely available, which means that sales will be low.

If sales are low, when you try to sell your next book, your publisher will look at the sales figures, and will decide that since sales were low, the house won’t make an offer. (Yes, this is how publishing works.)

A friend was recently offered a miniscule advance on her first novel, and she declined it. She and her agent have decided that she should go ahead and write books two and three in the series.

There’s a chance that offered a series, a publisher may pick the strongest book, and will offer a larger advance. Maybe. There are no certainties.

So remember, when you’re offered an advance, this advance can dictate the rest of your writing career. Think about it before you accept a low offer.

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