Suicide Prevention Week

This week is National Suicide Prevention Week. I always mean to remember it. To commemorate those who have battled suicide and won, and grieve those who have lost. For many, this is a topic that hits close to home and people are entitled to feel as they wish about it. Read More

Goodreads: Making it work for you

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

Welcome back to my Social Media corner! Regardless of your stance about whether authors should review, comment or interact on Goodreads, I think every author should control their digital footprint when and where we can. Everything I am going to suggest in this post can work fro someone who wants Read More

Email: Social Media buttons.

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

  Welcome back to my Social Media corner! This week’s post is done on request. I was taking an online class where everyone emailed a list and the messages are sent out to everyone subscribed to the class. When I send a message there’s a row of social media buttons, Read More

Facebook: Newsletter subscription tab.

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

Welcome back to the Social Media Corner! A few weeks ago I discussed setting up a Newsletter using MailChimp. This post will build off that one, using the built in functionality of MailChimp along with Facebook. I won’t go through how to set up a new tab on Facebook. We’ve Read More

Newsletter: Setting up MailChimp

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

  I’m breaking from talking about Facebook for a minute to discuss how to set up MailChimp for newsletters. Why? Because the next Facebook Page article I was writing explained how to add a newsletter sign-up form to your page… but what if you don’t have a MailChimp account? What Read More

Facebook: Having a social media corner.

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

  I decided after using two different Static HTML aps on Facebook that I much preferred the ap produced by Woobox for Static HTML. This was the first one I used in the setting up a Bookshelf tab. 1. Setting up another page using a previous ap. To add a second Read More

Facebook: Setting up a Bookshelf.

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

Hello Dear Reader and Writers joining me again today! Last week I gave a brief introduction, mostly listing out some tools that will be useful and hopefully explaining the purpose of these blogs. Today I’m going to talk about how to set up a Bookshelf area on your Facebook page. Read More

Opening the Social Media Corner!

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Social Media Corner

Hello Dear Reader and Writers joining me today! So last week on one of my author loops, where we discuss super seekrit writing things, like… chocolate and the power of a good cider, someone posted a link to another unrelated author’s Facebook page. She had this super cool Bookshelf like Read More