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Build Your Writer Platform One Plank at a Time

Build Your Writer Platform One Plank at a Time. Your Platform is the launch pad for your visibility. Your Platform gives you access to your readership. It gives your readership access to you. If your goal is to be published and read – you must build a solid writer platform.

You Do This or You Continue to Do This – One Plank at a Time. You do not have to do it all at once. You do not have to do it hurry. That will plunge you into frenzy. Frenzy is not an effective mode for accomplishing anything. Resist the urge to dash about in frenzy.

Your Social Media Presence is a Good First Plank. A pile of planks actually. Still – approach this effort one step at a time. No frenzy. No dashing about. One plank at a time means you will not become overwhelmed. Here is the first thing to remember about this first plank.

The Most Important Thing about Social Media is the Nature of Your Presence There. Your Presence as in how you Present yourself. The nature of that presence must be a conscious, even calculated choice. You think it through – or rethink it through – at the very beginning.

Begin your Thinking – or Rethinking – with This Crucial Question. Since my goal is to enhance my visibility – how is it in my best interests to be seen? Which means you must also ask yourself another question. Why am I on social media? What do I need to get out of being there?

These days I am on Social Media mostly as a Teacher. I want to attract people to me in a way that will make them open to my message. Which means it is in my best interest to be likable, approachable, pleasant. Someone you will enjoy learning from. That is my conscious intent.

You Must be Consciously Intentional Too. Be aware always that social media is not a small peephole accessible only to chosen friends and followers. Social media is a giant picture window. Everybody can look through that window at you. Decide what you want them to see.

Think Hard about What You Need Your Very Visible Presence to be. If you need to be a political firebrand – or any brand of firebrand – rant away. If you need to be a sex pot – vamp away. Be aware always that you make this choice for your writing career as well as for yourself.

Build Your Social Media Presence in a Way that Works for Your Writing Career. Which is all about building relationships. Make relationships your priority. Talk about the people you are connecting with as much – or more than – you talk about you. Put their needs ahead of your own.

Use your Social Media Presence to Serve Your Followers. They are potential readers. Pay It forward in advance to your readership. Give them – first and foremost – what they need. They will keep following you for it. They will support and encourage you and your writing career.

Lasting Relationships will be the Happy Result. Relationships that form the foundation of your solid platform. A place where you can firmly stand. A presence that works for you and your writing career. As you – Build Your Writer Platform One Plank at a Time.

Alice Orr – www.aliceorrbooks.com

Alice’s latest novel A Time of Fear & Loving Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series Book 5 – is available HERE.

A Time of Fear & Loving

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Praise for A Time of Fear & Loving: “Alice Orr is the queen of ramped-up stakes and page-turning suspense.” “Warning. Don’t read before bed. You won’t want to sleep.” “The tension in this novel is through the roof.” “I never want an Alice Orr book to end.”  “The best one yet!”

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Would You Like Some Bookmarks?

A Vacancy at the Inn - Bookmark FrontA few weeks ago I gushed all over everywhere about my first-ever bookmarks. How could that be? I’ve been publishing books for a long time. Why have I never had a bookmark?

It was way back in a bygone century that I began publishing. No YouTube videos. No Twitter feeds. And definitely no Email blasts. If you wanted to spread the word across the nation or even across the county you did it via the US Post Office. With a stamp and a written-out address and a drop-off at the P.O. In those days I did all of that with postcards of my bookcover.

Then I took a sixteen-year timeout from novel writing to help raise our grandchildren and when I returned the world had changed. Facebook friends and Twitter followers and YouTube viewers had arrived. I waded into all of that and enjoyed it too. But something was missing.

I wanted a real-word object I could carry in my hand and give to my non-Facebook friends and maybe even stuff into a stamped envelope once in a while. I resisted that growing urge through two novels. But my Christmas book did me in.

The cover was perfect. Red background with feathery white snowflakes and frost blossoms. Even pine trees in the background. I was overwhelmed by the impulse to spread that image everywhere. Postcards felt passe so I settled on bookmarks.

I turned to The Killion Group Inc. as always and Kim herself adapted the cover image to a bookmark that catapulted me directly into rapture. I had no choice but to put my money where my enthusiasm was and make an order. Five hundred or a thousand were the same price so I said “Let’s go with the thousand of course.”

Then the delivery arrived. At first I thought the two stacks in the center of the box were it but I was mistaken. There were two more equally tall-tall stacks on either side. Have you ever seen a thousand bookmarks? The only appropriate response was “EEK!!!”

I wouldn’t say I panicked but I came close. What was I going to do with this gi-normous quantity of bookmarks? Beautiful bookmarks for sure. I’m puffed-up proud of them. But a gi-normous quantity all the same.

My author friends have encouraged me to be bold on behalf of my bookmarks. So I’ve been doing that. At a perfectly nice lunch I shoved a packet of you-know-what between my companion and her appetizer.

My husband Jonathan is carries mounds of bookmarks to work with him. I’ve plastered my dentist’s office with them. And libraries and bookstores and laundromats. Still a gi-normous quantity remains.

So if you like bookmarks – email me your ground mail address at aliceorrbooks@gmail.com and say “I’ll take some of those bookmarks Alice.” I’ll send them out to you with Joy and Love from Alice.

Alice Orr – https://www.aliceorrbooks.com.

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 A Vacancy at the Inn is the first Christmas Novella of Alice Orr’s Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series. A holiday bargain for just 99 cents at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017RZFGWC.

THIS BOOK IS FREE!

THIS BOOK IS FREE!

A Wrong Way Home – Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series Book 1 –

GET A FREE EBOOK at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T9RVGGC

Free Book image 2“I loved it. AND I’m looking forward to reading the next in this series. The story was fast moving, believable, exciting, and well-developed. It’s important for me to like the characters in a book, yet they have to have some flaws, be three dimensional and “real.” Alice Orr delivered.” Amazon Review.

This is the first time I’ve made a book Permafree. A Wrong Way Home – the eBook will be a gift from now on to everyone. That’s how much I want to introduce you to my Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series. This is Book 1 of the series.

“Romance, murder mystery, suspense, and in this book a heroine who is able to take care of herself and doesn’t need to be rescued by the hero. Can’t wait to see how the series grows.” Amazon Review.

Free Book image 1I’m thrilled by the enthusiastic reviews that have greeted A Wrong Way Home and welcomed me to the world of series writing which I love. Diving deeper with each book into the family and the small town and the deadly intrigues that are the core of the series are an adventure for me.

“I highly recommend this page-turner which is romance and suspense at its best.” Amazon Review.

Click the amazon.com link to get your free eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T9RVGGC or go to my website for your free eBook from Nook or iBooks or Kobo and more. Find them at www.aliceorrbooks.com on the home page under the book cover of A Wrong Way Home.

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 A YEAR OF SUMMER SHADOWS – Riverton Road Romantic Suspense Series Book #2 is also available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZBOTH5O. Alice Orr – www.aliceorrbooks.com.