A new trend among authors right now is to generate buzz before their book is published, that way, you can show agents and publishers that people will want to buy your book. Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace are all great ways to exploit oneself to the web world.
I'm not a fan of MySpace, which is more media centric anyway. As for Twitter, I have an account (@shawnapiranha) but to be honest, I still don't really understand the whole concept behind it.
So I took to Facebook. The other day I created a fanpage for myself (I didn't want one just for Force because i wanted to be able to update it with the sequels when the time comes). It was very weird trying to create a fan site based on me. I don't really know what people would want to know!
But, after a few hours (yes, hours!) I came up with a barebones site. I posted the first three chapters of Force as well as a few discussion topics, some of which were started by the characters from the story as well (hmm... how did they get on facebook, I wonder?)
Anyway, after five days, I have 79 fans! The more exciting thing is that at least 20 of them are people I don't know! They aren't even in my extended network! It's pretty exciting to have complete strangers writing positive reviews about a book they've only read the beginning of.
So I guess the big experiment will be seeing how this pans out in the long run. Fingers crossed!
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