Annalee Newitz 🍜Dec 10, 2022
Internet evolution:
Usenet: find your people! there are a few dozen of them on rec.arts.funny!
Listservs: find your people! there are 100 of them on this obscure list devoted to Marxist cultural criticism!
Blogs: find your people! each time one of them visits your site, your counter will increment! look! it has reached four digits!
Social media: find your people! there are several million strangers who are calling you names!
Post-social media: find your people! there are several dozen of them!
Show threadDan HonDec 10, 2022
@annaleen who needs more than a dunbar's worth of their people anyway
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Dec 10, 2022
@danhon @annaleen Anyone with anything to sell, for a start.
Show threadAnnalee Newitz 🍜Dec 10, 2022
@fraying @danhon it's true. the loss of social media is very tough for me as an author. Twitter was a reliable way to get the word out about new books. TikTok is nice, but unless you go viral it's unhelpful. And even if you DO go viral, it may not help get the word out to people who care about nerdy scifi books. :)
Show threadShannon ClarkDec 10, 2022

@annaleen @fraying @danhon two anecdotes while my Twitter followers fluctuated between 2500–3500 for basically my entire 15 years on the site, and my followers here are much smaller the most engagement I’ve ever had with a social media post has been here (over 1000 favorites, boosts and replies)

And sharing a link here about a sale Orbit Books is having on their debut authors for 2022 led to a lot of engagement and very likely sales

Show threadHella (old account)

@Rycaut @annaleen @fraying @danhon

#SellingBooks might work here, too. At least it works from my #BuyingBooks perspective.

I've already found 2 #author's I haven't heard of before (who write books I am interested in). And already bought 3 books by one of this authors.

(Haven't written a #Bookwyrm post, yet)

Please use #hashtags, include #links to the bookpage (and you favourite indie ebook shop), #blurbs

Dec 10, 2022 at 8:54amWeb