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By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 14:40:25 +0000

In reply to Diana LeBost. Good luck, Diana! Sandy

By: Diana LeBost

Diana LeBost — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 06:20:10 +0000

In reply to Sandra Beckwith. Thank you so much, Sandra. I will do all of the above! Diana

By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 03:07:21 +0000

In reply to Diana LeBost.

Diana, for this question: [ Does sending tweets to accounts like KindleKidsBks, Kids Books Today, or Free Daily eBooks do anything? ], I would ask them directly. Each one will tell you what they’d like from you, how they’d like it delivered, etc.

Re. this: [You mentioned not putting the book cover in the tweet. But aren’t picture books about pictures, and wouldn’t my target audience want to see book covers? ], you’ll see that I said don’t use your book cover as your account PROFILE photo. That’s not the same thing as including the book cover in the tweet.

To answer your question about who is the audience for picture books, in general, it’s people who buy them for children, but you should be able to narrow that down further based on the topic, etc.

In general, you’ll do best if you don’t think of Twitter as a sales tool but as a tool that lets you help and serve others. It’s also a great resource for learning.

I recommend you read some of the materials at the links above if you haven’t done so yet.

Good luck!

Sandy

By: Diana LeBost

Diana LeBost — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:38:32 +0000

Oh the questions I have!! Okay, I have just begun to try and promote my self-published picture book during the last few weeks. I have hastily set up a twitter account, have begun a very sparse Pinterest page, and did a KDP select free book promotion for one day. On that day I tried to tweet about my promotion. I hadn’t had time to socialize on Twitter first, so I am afraid I made myself rather obnoxious and tweeted my promo ad several times before I tweeted much of anything else . I tried at least to target accounts that I thought might not mind shameless promotion.
That’s really my question: Does sending tweets to accounts like KindleKidsBks, Kids Books Today, or Free Daily eBooks do anything? These accounts are more like groups or services, seems to me. Am I supposed to hope they read my tweet and retweet it? Or should I work to build relations with individual people, other writers and illustrators, and tweet and retweet with them?
I have another question: You mentioned not putting the book cover in the tweet. But aren’t picture books about pictures, and wouldn’t my target audience want to see book covers? And who is the target audience for picture books? Moms? Or other people in the Picture book industry? Too bad little kids aren’t on twitter. They are the audience!
Sorry to ask so many questions. I’m so overwhelmed and confused!
Your blog is great, thank you for it!!!

Diana

By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:27:03 +0000

In reply to Cat. Thanks, Cat! I'm glad it was helpful. Sandy

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:34:24 +0000

I’ve been dragging my feet on Twitter but need to get on the bandwagon. Like Slyvia, I also have a children’s book coming out this spring (a You-Decide tale where youngsters create their own story ending), so I want to explore launching and tweeting. I pinned your article on my ‘social media for indie writers’ board, and I’d also like to credit you and repost on my blog. Please keep your good ideas a-comin’!

By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:21:06 +0000

In reply to Sylvia.

Ahhhh…siblings! I’ve got 6 of them so that’s a subject I can relate to. Good luck with it, Sylvia!

Sandy

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:15:10 +0000

I just ‘saved’ this…
Looking forward to having my Children’s Picture Book accepted and published, then away we go! Lotza stuff to know, to prepare, to do…I’m hoping to be out of limbo soon with something concrete to offer…my book and/or E-BOOK about Siblings!