https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Bloodlines-after-life-lessons-ebook/dp/B07NCF6V1H
book trailer
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Applied to Book Marketing
I’m a math nerd. I love spreadsheets and use them in all aspects of my life. I have pie charts for seating arrangements and linked macros for house renovations. You name it, I have a spreadsheet. So I was wondering how I could incorporate math into book marketing. Check out this video to see my tongue in cheek attempt:
Nominate my fifth book to be published by Kindle Press on the crowdsourcing site, Kindle Scout: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/24VKXYPLERGLP
Recap of The Light of Supremazia Kindle Scout Campaign
I may not have won Kindle Scout, but I learned a heck of a lot about blogging and marketing. This blog post is recapping my 30 day campaign:
Launch on #KindleScout and a #CoverReveal
Using Real People as #Fictional #Characters – #ArtisticLicense and #TBT
The Proper #Setting for a #MagicalRealism #Book
Made Up Words, the #Language of a #Fiction #Novel
Who would you want as your #art #teacher?
#MondayBlog – Mapping Out Your Novel’s #Fantasy #World
#BookTrailer #BookMarketing and #KindleScout
My #cat Baby Thor is #marketing my #book
What Influences Your #Setting Descriptions?
Write in Your Own Voice
Technology in Literature
#BookMarketing for my #KindleScout Campaign
3 Qualities of a Great #English #Teacher
Ensuring the Proper Sequence of Events for Your #Book
Managing Your Social Media Presence – #twitter #facebook #youtube #pinterest #wordpress #tumblr
A Cast of #Actors for Your #Book
#BookMarketing and #TagsForLikes.com and #Einstein
New York, the City I Love
That Time I Elbowed Jimmy Fallon
GhostFeed and Wikispirit
My Kindle Scout Experience
Introducing The Light of Supremazia on Amazon
Managing Your Social Media Presence – #twitter #facebook #youtube #pinterest #wordpress #tumblr
That’s a ton of hashtags!
As a millennial, it isn’t surprising that I LOVE social media. I am the person walking down the street with her phone in her hand. I guess I don’t need to “disconnect.” It’s fun to catch up with friends, or read local news, or post my favorite cat meme.
However, as an author, the task of sharing on social media is daunting. I don’t mind if my Aunt Sally doesn’t comment on my picture of dinner last night, but there is a negative outcome if people don’t like my author posts…they won’t read my books! The trick is to ensure the information you share is interesting and useful for the reader. Keep ’em coming back for more!
Today’s post is an example. I prepared the picture below, which is a setting for my book called The Light of Supremazia, and I’m going to write this blog post on managing your social media and post it on all my sites. The picture might be intriguing for a potential reader, but if not, at least they got some value out of my post on social media presence.
Here are all the sites today’s theme will be posted on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlanaSiegel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AfterlifeLessons
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd7P2UhtpCMBLajIDOlYH6A
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/alanasiegel/afterlife-lessons/
Tumblr: http://makeeverymisadventureanadventure.tumblr.com/
Vote for The Light of Supremazia on Kindle Scout!
How do u manage ur social media? #twitter #facebook #youtube #pinterest #wordpress #tumblr share with @alanasiegel (click to tweet)
#BookTrailer #BookMarketing and #KindleScout
Book trailers can be great marketing tools, particularly because people are less likely to forward to the end.
Check out the book trailer for The Light of Supremazia, my next book!
Vote for my Kindle Scout campaign!
Do you have a #booktrailer for your book? Join author @alanasiegel ‘s discussion (Click to tweet)
How do you market your #book? Share with writer @alanasiegel #fantasy #novel (Click to tweet)
Modern Day Books Need Add Ons
As I prepare to launch my next book series, I keep thinking about additional ways to enjoy the story. How many times have you read the details by J.K. Rowling about characters she didn’t mention at the end of the series? Or get excited because they brought the characters of Vampire Diaries to life in a tv series? Or sing along to a song from the Hunger Games movie on the radio?
Like a bag of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans or your very own Mocking Jay pin, I hope you enjoy Jules’s Vita Post Mortem Academy Class schedule!
The Light of Supremazia, book #1 in the (after)life lessons young adult, fantasy book series!
Check out the pinterest page: https://www.pinterest.com/alanasiegel/afterlife-lessons/
Check out the book trailer: https://youtu.be/ZfKnXA8oJBE
Check out The Light of Supremazia #BookTrailer
#Salvador #Dali ‘s View of #Purgatory Reinterpreted as #Food
I’m a firm believer that resolutions should not be a once a year decision. That being said, I am declaring my latest resolution to update this blog one of many resolutions I will make in 2015.
To begin my blog updates, I’m making the posts more “Alana-like” and adding structure. Each post will include something that has inspired me and an update on my writing.
A SPANISH ARTIST AS MY MUSE
Last night, my husband and I went to a New Year’s Eve dinner at Coqueta in downtown San Francisco. The chef (@chefchiarello) used four Spanish artists (Miro, Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi) as his inspiration and the theme for the night.
Two particular dishes stood out to me. One was an ironic, yet delicious, interpretation of Miro’s Still Life with Old Shoe oil painting. Picture below includes the painting and a server passing out chicken croquette’s from an old shoe.
The second was an translation of a quote by quirky Salvador Dali (the Spanish chef emphasized the accent on the “i”). In Dali’s opinion, purgatory included eating sea urchin and ham. The chef brought the vision to life with dry ice, and I’ll admit, purgatory was tasty. Check out my video on instagram: http://instagram.com/p/xTWnczEOuJ/?modal=true.
(AFTER)LIFE LESSONS
I consider myself superstitious (can’t fight the jinx theory!), and I thought it was a nod from the universe that Dali was one of the artists honored at last night’s dinner. Dali is a teacher at Vita Post Mortem Academy in my next young adult, fantasy series about a girl who goes to school taught by spirits. Dali’s character is bizarre and eccentric. His classroom is a collection of clocks stopped at exactly 4:17, the time he died. As a school assignment, he asks the students to decorate their own urn while he has colorful conversations with his old friend / foe Picasso.
I have been brainstorming ideas for a book trailer as well. It would include creepy scenes driving through dark woods, doors creaking, and curtains blowing ominously. I was hoping my cousin Jane would record an unplugged version of Eminem and Rihanna’s song, “The Monster,” and my cousin Melanie would narrate. Fingers crossed they are on board.
I’m friends with the monster that’s under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You’re trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I’m crazy, yeah, you think I’m crazy
Other than that, I’m still pinning a few pictures to the Pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/alanasiegel/afterlife-lessons/
And my editor is reading through my draft. I’m hoping to publish the book in the Spring!
Optimist Superheroes 