Social media networking and online book marketing are a must for authors these days. The thing is, some of us writers are so old school we really need a lot of help in those areas.
Julia
For me though, somehow the literary gods smiled and sent Julia Hendrix my way. After reviewing my book, Sliding Beneath the Surface, Julia volunteered to set up an official Facebook fan page for my young adult series titled, The St. Augustine Trilogy. Tell you what, I jumped at the chance.
Next thing I know, Julia has that page up and running with all kinds of activity and tons of “Likes.” Absolutely amazing. Realizing what a treasure I had on my hands, I immediately made her my assistant.
Bam! Within just a few weeks she has now set up a 15 stop, online virtual book tour for early 2013 and is running a classy contest for me. Julia has designed swag items, coordinated with book bloggers and other authors, gotten me great visibility on Goodreads and has just generally been a house afire. She’s in Tulsa and I’m in the Orlando area but it’s as if the miles in between don’t count. Our virtual connection just keeps things humming.
This young woman is so smart, super organized, highly computer literate and incredibly creative that it’s hard to believe one person can so competent. She’s a bundle of enthusiastic energy that every author would love to have on call. Talk about lucky? That’s me.
Guess I shouldn’t be talking about Julia in public like this–other authors might try stealing her away from me. Even so, my fellow writers, take heed. There may be others like Julia out there somewhere so keep your eyes open. And those of you who aren’t authors but who might like to support some of them like Julia is doing, I say go for it!
Julia, you are one in a million. Thank you for all you have done, are doing right now and have got planned for me in the future. I owe you more than I can ever say.
Click here if you would like to see Julia’s review of my book on Amazon.
Click here if you would like to see the official FB page Julia set up for The St. Augustine Trilogy.
Click here if you would like to see the upcoming blog tour my trusty assistant organized for January.
Click here if you would like to see the contest I mentioned above.
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Okay I’ll try this again seeing as though the comment I made from my Kindle Fire didn’t post. 🙁
Thank you so very much for such kind words of encouragement! I cannot express how this past month and a half has affected me personally. It’s been great working with you, Doug, I couldn’t ask for a better Author and person to start this journey with. I couldn’t read the entire blog post above without tearing up knowing the meaning behind the post is so close to my heart. Dreams can come true and I do believe you’ve helped in accomplishing mine. 🙂 A good start to an awesome journey! Thanks so much Doug! You are great too you know!
Julia,
I’m so glad you like what I wrote. All that I said was heartfelt and well deserved.
Thanks for own kind words.
Let’s go have some more fun.
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