1) Retweet! This is by far the easiest thing you can do to support your author friend (other than just saying, "Hey, way to go, author friend!") It takes about a half a second to retweet something and you will never see it again. Since the life span of a tweet is three seconds, chances are no one will be annoyed that you retweet for your friend fairly often because they won't see all of them. Hopefully, they will see one of them and buy your friend's book--and that just might make you a superhero.
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| Be a superhero and support your author friend! |
2) Like/comment/share on Facebook. This is a little more demanding because you could potentially end up being the one clogging your other friends' newsfeeds. But, it doesn't take much to like a post or leave a quick, encouraging comment. Did you know that the more like/comments/share's your friend's Facebook page gets, the higher it will climb in rankings, which will make it easier for other readers to find the page and potentially read one of your friend's books? It's true! Again, this is a huge help to author's so seriously interact on Facebook as much as you can. And, the next time you check to see who liked that 87th photo of what you had for dinner last night, you might realize your author friend is helping you out on Facebook, too. Interacting on FB makes you our BFF.
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| Best Friend Forever? Go ahead, share that link! |
3) Read their blog posts--and comment. Many indie authors spend an overwhelming amount of time blogging (if you don't believe me check out how many posts I have this month) in the hopes of grabbing the attention of readers. Again, the more interactions we have on our blogs, the better the chances we have of moving up in google search rankings and getting more attention. Clicking on blogs helps, but reading and commenting is even more helpful. And, sharing our blog posts on your social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+) makes you a rock star!
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| Rock star? Blog star! Leave a comment! |
4) Buy a book ( or two). If you haven't purchased one of your friend's books, please consider doing so. After all, chances are you can get one for less than a cup of Starbucks coffee and you can read it on anything. Yes, without a kindle, you can go download a Kindle published book and read it on any device through the Kindle Cloud Reader. That would mean your laptop, your iPad, your phone, whatever. And when you buy a book, something magical happens. Graphs grow dots, lines go up, rankings go up, titles move up in search engine rankings and authors smile--a lot! It's not about the $1.50 you just put in my pocket; it's about the appreciation of knowing you care enough about me to buy my book. Even if you never read it, you suddenly just made your author friend's day. That makes you My Sunshine!
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| For the price of a cup of coffee, you can make it happen! |
5) Write a review. Okay--I'm not going to tell you to go on Amazon and write a 5 star review of your friend's book if you hated it. But if you saw some endearing qualities, let the world know! (However, if you can find nothing good to say, don't break your loved one's heart by saying so publicly--mums the word.) When anyone posts a positive review about our work, it becomes very real that all of those hours we spent laboring over this work of art were not in vain. Someone read it--and they liked it! And that makes you the Queen or King of Everything!
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| Be Reviewer Royalty and help your author buddy out. |
There are lots of ways that you can support your author friend and these are just a few of the simple ones. Who knows? Maybe that friend will write you into his next book as the best friend who saves the day! And when she wins a major award or makes the best-seller list, she'll know who to thank!
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