These two are the visual social media platforms – you post photos instead of just text. Here are some tips and tricks for writers:
- Send your book with traveling friends and have them post photos
- Follow bloggers who review books and fellow authors
- Snap photos of what you’re reading
- Snap photos of what you’re writing
- According to Socialbakers, “the top brands on Instagram have a post engagement rate 47% higher than on Twitter.”
- Add the “pin it” button to your browser
- Make an “If you like ___ you’ll like my book” board (covers of similar titles)
- Make “People and Places” board for people who look like your characters and places your characters would have visited or lived in
- Make a board for cover art and behind the scenes images
- Make Lives of Your Characters boards – what they’d wear, eat, visit, etc.
- Make a quotes board: reading, writing, books, authors, whatever you like
- Make a visual writing prompt board with provocative photos
- Pin images and add quotes from your books
- Make a Best bookstores or libraries board
- Data shows that since 2011, “the number of Pinterest users going from the platform to a website has multiplied seven times, far outstripping Twitter and others.”