For The Fans/Readers
- Write reviews of books you’ve read for fun
- Write reviews of books you’ve read in the current genre you write in
- Write about what a typical day is like for you
- Talk about tips, tricks, and tools that help keep your life organized
- List story ideas you hope to tackle in the future
- Describe your perfect weekend.
- Talk about past holidays (during a time when that holiday is coming up)
- Share past holiday photos, traditions and stories.
- Talk about your favorite TV shows and what you love about them.
- List your all time favorite actors and why you like them.
- List your all time favorite bands, songs, and/or musicians and why you like them.
- Post excerpts from completed and published books
- Post book blurbs from upcoming books
- Post teasers of upcoming books and WIP’s
- Interview your characters so that your fans get to know them better
- Host an open discussion about the book industry from a readers perspective
- Host an open discussion about what a reader wants from an author, book and/or series.
- List your favorite Author Blogs
- List your Favorite Book Review Blogs
- Talk about what show from your childhood would you love to bring back and why
- Talk about if someone gave you a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, where would you go and why
- Talk about the best vacation you’ve ever had in your entire life, explain why it is and post pictures if you can
- Describe what your favorite rainy day activity
- Talk about if you could be any age again for a day, what age would it be and why
- Post a photo that represents your fantasy _______
- Talk about which of the four seasons you prefer and why
- Talk about if you could witness one moment in history what would it be and why
- Create a dream cast of actors for your books
- List the first 5 things you would do if you suddenly had millions of dollars
- List your favorite foods you just couldn’t live without
- List your least favorite foods and why
- List the people in your life you couldn’t live without and why
- Share your favorite reader resources, websites, and apps
- Post background info on your most popular characters or stories
- Post and interview of some of your blog followers who comment the most.
- Interview a fan about their favorite book of yours
- Feature your favorite reviews of one of your books
- List websites/tools that will help you find your next book to read
- Post a funny cartoon about reading
- Post a funny GIF about reading
- Post a funny song about reading
- Post a funny video about reading
- List your personal goals for the coming year
- A letter from an author (you) to the readers (your fans)
- Have an open discussion about the types of merchandise your fans want
- Hold a competition for your fans on designs for certain merchandises.
- Hold a competition for your fans on who can design the best book cover
- Run a fan contest for free books and/or merchandise
- Try your hand at writing a poem for your fans
- Share your current favorite song of the day and/or week.
- Share a To-Do list for your daily life
- Take some time out to thank your readers/fans/followers
- Make a list of apps for readers and review them
- Make a list of podcasts for readers
- Talk about book clubs and where to find them
- Have an open discussion about what your readers what to see next from you
- List events for readers in your genre
- List events for readers in your niche
- Highlight amazing libraries around the world
- Show pictures of amazing reading nooks and book spaces
- Talk about the worst day in your life so far
- Talk about the best day in your life so far
- Share your most embarrassing experience
- List great magazines for readers
- Talk about your astrological sign and if the description fits you
- Let your fans know what hashtags to follow to get information on your books
- Ask fans to create their own book trailer of one of your books
- Have fans show pictures of who they see as a representation of one of your characters
- List places to find free e-books in your genre
- Ask your readers if they would like to see a continuation or spin off of one of your stories
- Ask your readers to describe a book they are dying to read and haven’t found yet
- Talk about your family background/ancestors and how they have shaped who you are today
- Ask your readers what they love most in a story
- Ask your readers what they hate most when reading a story
- List magazine that pertain to your niche
- Do a blog tour
- List all the different ways your fans can find and buy your books
- List all the different ways your fans can find and buy your merchandise
- How to get your local library to order the books you are interested in
- Ask your fans if they would like to see any of your books turned into movies or tv shows
- Ask your fans which movies or tv shows that came from books they liked or hated and why
- Ask your fans/reader who would like to be a part of your street team
- Run story ideas by your fans/readers and ask their opinions on them
- Create a list of books that are based off of certain holidays, situation, etc…
- Take a poll to see which book cover your fans liked the most
- Remind your fans of what social media platforms they can follow you on.
- Ask your fans what social media outlet they use the most
- Ask your readers which genre they hate to read and why
- Ask your readers what their favorite tv and movie is and why
- Ask your readers what their favorite books were growing up and why
- Ask your readers to post pictures of their ultimate dream reading nooks
- Ask your readers to talk about their favorite book heroes and heroines of all time
- Ask your readers to talk about their favorite book villains of all time
For The Writing Community
- Write about or feature someone who has been influential in your writing career
- Feature writers you network with (Interview them on your blog post, talk about their latest work
- List things that help to inspire your writing
- Write about what a typical writing day is like for you
- Talk about tips, tricks and tools that help keep your writing career organized
- What inspires your story ideas and characters
- Share advice and lessons learned from writing, completing, publishing and marketing your work
- List your long term and short term goals as a writer/author
- List your long term and short term goals for marketing your book
- Highlight your favorite quotes about writing.
- Talk about writing classes
- Review writing classes you have taken
- Review writing products
- Talk about how you can use your favorite TV show as inspiration for characters, plots and scenes.
- Talk about how you use music during your writing process.
- Review books for writers
- List your favorite self help books for writers
- List your favorite websites that help writers
- Explain how you research for a book
- List websites and tools that will help writers research for a book
- Talk about future story ideas and how to turn them into actual books
- Interview leading members of your industry (agents, editors, publishers, marketers, etc…)
- Host an open discussion about the writing industry.
- Spotlight great writing articles from other writers/authors/bloggers.
- Talk about critique groups and review some
- Talk about writing organizations and review some
- List your favorite writer blogs
- Talk about the query process and any personal experience you have with it.
- Explain how you start a new writing project
- Explain your marketing strategy.
- List tools, websites and businesses that can help writers building a marketing plan
- Talk about blog newsletters, their benefits and how to use them.
- List your favorite blogging resources and articles
- Name the 5 biggest writing distractions in your life right now and talk about ways to deal with them
- Talk about flash fiction and how it can help or hinder your writing career.
- Update an older popular article with some new information and/or links.
- Create a post that lists and groups like minded articles you’ve written in the past
- Talk about how to use social media to help promote your books/writing career
- Talk about how to throw book parties online
- Interview a critic about one of your books and have them explain what they would like to see changed and why
- Talk about the art of writing a book blurb
- List the best selling books in your genre and why you think they are succeeding
- List the best selling authors in your genre and why you think they are succeeding
- List the earning potential of authors who use publishers in your genre
- Post a list of websites that list writing jobs
- Talk about the different types of jobs writers could do and how to find them.
- Talk about how to outline a book
- Explain your outlining process
- Talk about how to run a blog when you are an author/writer
- Explain your plans for your blog (current and future plans)
- Talk about writer retreats, why to use them and where to find them
- Post a review of any writers retreat you’ve gone to along with pictures of your time there
- Talk about grants for writers, how to apply for them and where to find them.
- Spotlight fellow writers who support and inspire you
- Talk about creative writing prompts and how to use them for inspiration
- List websites that post creative writing prompts and picture prompts
- Talk about keeping a writers journal and a writers notebook and the difference between the two
- Talk about writers block and how to prevent it or overcome it
- Spotlight helpful writing infographics
- Spotlight helpful blogging infographics
- Spotlight helpful genre infographics
- Talk about mistakes you’ve made with your first MS (unpublished or published)
- Talk about how to plan a book signing event
- Talk about how to handle bad reviews and how to learn from them as a writer.
- Post a funny cartoon about writing
- Post a funny GIF about writing
- Post a funny song about writing
- Post a funny video about writing
- Talk about how to throw a launch party (online or in person)
- Talk about your brainstorming process
- Talk about the benefits of a writing partner and where to find one
- Describe how to speed up the writing process
- Describe how to speed up the blogging process
- Post an encouraging message to writers
- Talk about how you can’t sit down and write unless _______
- Discuss time management tools for writers
- Post a writing schedule
- Interview your significant other about your writing career and how they feel about it
- List your goals as a writer, blogger, author for the year
- Talk about how to find a literary agent and what to look out for
- Talk about how to find a publisher and what to look out for
- Talk about how to find an editor
- Talk about why a writer would need a literary attorney and how to find one
- Make a list of publishers in your genre, what they are looking for and how to submit to them.
- Talk about mistakes to avoid in your manuscript
- Talk about synopsis and mistakes to avoid with them
- Talk about elevator pitches
- Talk about how to speak/read in public
- Talk about how to come up with character names
- List blogging content generators and how to use them
- Talk about how to make book trailers
- Talk about Web/Blog design tips
- Talk about inspiration boards/bulletin boards and how they can help with the writing process
- Talk about how to choose a setting for your story
- List some exercises/stretches for writers
- Talk about the benefits of business cards, where to get them and how to design them
- Talk about merchandise and how to design it and where to get it
- Talk about author platforms and how to build one
- Talk about how to choose a title for your book
- Talk about the importance of book covers and how to design one
- Talk about writing contests and how they can help your career
- Review writing contests
- Talk about how to run contests for your fans to drum up business
- Share a To-Do list for your daily writing life
- Research your genre and talk about what you found
- Research the readers in your genre and talk about what you found
- Talk about finding niches in your genre and how to use it to gather more readers
- Make a list of apps for writers and review them
- Talk about podcasts and how to use them/do them
- Make a list of pobcasts for writers
- Talk about how to come up with idea for blogs
- Post a list of blog post ideas 🙂
- Talk about book clubs and how they can help your career
- Discuss ideas on how to engage your readers/followers/fans
- Make a list of authors/writers that have won awards in your genre
- Talk about ghostwriting
- Post “How To” articles pertaining to writing
- Discuss writing/publishing scams and how to avoid them
- Talk about the best ways to save, organize and access your favorite articles from the internet
- Talk about writing magazines, whether you should invest money into them and how to get deals on them
- List great magazines for writers/authors
- Discuss how to use astrological signs to create deeper characters
- Talk about social media groups, how to find them and how to use them.
- Research each popular social media sight and how best to use them for your writing career
- Talk about how to promote your books locally
- Talk about the importance of using keywords and which ones to use
- Talk about different methods to promote a book
- Talk about how to write an “About Me” page
- List key items every writer/author should have on their page
- Explain SEO for bloggers
- Explain analytics
- Talk about Google Authorship
- Discuss what a book launch team is and how to create and use one
- How to host a twitter chat or hangout on
- Talk about hashtags and how to create ones for your books
- Talk about facebook campaigns
- Talk about Google campaigns
- Talk about the benefits and disadvantages of creating social media pages for your most popular characters
- Talk about street teams, how to form them and how to use them.
- Discuss how to make an e-book out of your old blog post articles
- Talk about how to get local newspapers, tv programs and radio shows to interview you
- What are press releases and media kits and how to make them.
- Talk about the benefits of partnering with a brand that is in your niche
- The advantages of renting a billboard to advertise your book\
- Create a viral video that depicts a scene in your book
- Talk about where and how to host a book reading
- Talk about places to donate your book and how that will help earn new readers
- Talk about the difference between a reader and a fan and who to invest the most money and time in
- Talk about book plots and how to build strong ones
- Talk about how to build a scene
- Talk about how to revise and edit and the difference between the two
- Talk about how to write dialogue between characters
- Talk about how to write the opposite sex
- Talk about the e-book market and how it could benefit your career
- Talk about how to write sequels
- Talk about how to treat your writing career as a business
- Talk about tax deductions available to writers
- Talk about legal matters that writers need to be aware of
- Talk about how to format a MS
- How to craft a perfect hero/heroine
- How to craft the perfect villain
- Talk about how to identify and connect with your audience
- Build a budget and a timeline for marketing your books
- Talk about how to present your marketing plans to your publisher
- List free sites that will help your promote your book
- List websites/programs cost $ but will help your promote your book
- Talk about the importance of professional headshots
- Learn how to pitch articles
- Talk about social media roundup sites and how to use them for your blog and social media platforms
- Talk about the different tools amazon has for writers
- Talk about how to create your own online writing class
- Discuss what blog tours are and how to create one
- Talk about travel writing and how to become a travel writer
- Discuss how to handle a webcam for the best outcomes
- Talk about freelance writing and how to have a career as a freelance writer
- What are the different methods of review books and what a professional book review looks like
- Talk about how to make money reviewing books
- Talk about audio book and whether or not you should invest money into making one for your books
- How to make an audio book
- Discuss whether or not you should do the reading for your audio book
- List of words to use in your writing
- List of words to avoid in your writing
- How to use your local library to further your writing career
- How to become a full time writer
- How to juggle a writing career and a full time job
- How to juggle a writing career and part time job
- How to make money from your website/blog
- How to stay on Google search engine’s good side
- How to plan everything in your writing career
- How to plan everything in your marketing career
- How to plan everything in your blogging career
- Create a blogging schedule
- Create a submitting schedule
- Discuss the option of seeking help from your biggest fans to help spread the word of upcoming books
For All Your Followers
- Share meaningful moments and photos from past vacations
- List things that help inspire your life
- Talk about your first ever completed manuscript, how you felt about it then and now, and if it was published.
- Talk about your first book that was published, how you felt about it then and now and how well it sold.
- Talk about when, how and why you decided to write stories to be published.
- Talk about your current WIP’s
- List your favorite bookish gifts
- Highlight your favorite inspirational quotes
- Explain why you have chosen to write in the genre you have written in and whether or not you plan to write in other genres
- Talk about the latest news in your industry and genre and give your opinion on it.
- Post a philosophical question and your answer to it.
- Review movies that were based off of books and talk about whether or not it did the book justice.
- Review TV shows that were based off of books and talk about whether or not it did the book justice.
- Talk about how you like to write (where you write, when you write, what you wear, if it’s planned or not…)
- Talk about your favorite causes (charities) and why they are important to you.
- List your favorite books from when you were a child and talk about how you see them as an adult.
- List your favorite books this year and why you like them.
- List upcoming books you can’t wait to read.
- List your favorite book heroes, heroines and villains and why you like them.
- Talk about rejection and disappointment and how to handle them.
- Describe your ideal writing space.
- Describe your ideal home library.
- Talk about your favorite kind of character to write about
- Talk about your least favorite kind of character to write about
- Share your fears and anxieties about your writing career.
- Share your hopes and aspirations about your writing career.
- Write a short story/flash fiction piece for your blog followers (Break it up into two blog posts)
- Take a photo of your work/writing space and talk about it.
- talk about a genie grants you 3 wishes to use towards your writing career. What are they and why?
- Talk about flash fiction and highlight some of your favorite flash fiction writers
- Talk about which authors careers you want the most and why
- List the books that are waiting to be read on your kindle
- List the books you’ve bought that are sitting on a bookshelf waiting to be read
- Talk about your favorite social media outlets and why you like them
- Create a list of people from each social media outlet you would recommend other people follow
- Throw a book party online with one of your most popular books or with a book that is about to be released
- Describe how to throw a themed party from one of your books
- Describe how to throw a themed book party in general
- Post a soundtrack for your book
- Talk about the songs you used while writing a certain book
- Pick a trending twitter topic and discuss it on your blog
- Post about any events, appearance, or guest blogs you will be doing
- Describe your dream launch party
- Write about the time you almost gave up on your writing career and what saved it
- Talk about the book idea you wish you had thought of first
- Talk about a book you wish you could rewrite to make better (yours or someone elses)
- Talk about how writing has affected other areas in your life
- List some of your favorite book trailers.
- Make a list of great first lines from books
- Make a list of great endings from books
- Take a picture of your inspiration/bulletin board and explain how it helps you
- Post a funny video or vine about your work
- Talk about your #1 favorite author and what books you like of theirs and why
- Write a “Did You Know?” article (post a weird random fact or a fact about your genre or industry)
- Share your bucket list
- Talk about the types of books you like to read vs the types of books you life to write and explain why
- Post something specific to your niche
- Make a list of inspirational videos/talks (like TED talks)
- Shocking news about your genre
- Shocking news about your niche
- Highlight past interviews you have done (online, radio, tv)
- Make a list of fiction books written by ghostwriters
- Talk about how you handle being a parent and a writer (if it pertains to you) or interview someone who is
- Talk about controversial topics in your genre
- Talk about controversial topics in your niche
- Post about an upcoming twitter chat or hangout you are hosting
- List author hangouts and interviews found on Google
- Post pictures that inspired scenes in one of your books
- Write an article highlighting one of your Pinterest boards and explain how and why you use it
- Post quote from famous authors, agents, publishers
- Post about any upcoming book news you have for your books
- Talk about social media roundup sites
- The advantages of reading books in your genre
- The disadvantages of reading books in your genre
- Ask if anyone listens to audio books and what they like or dislike about them
- Talk about programs you can suggest to your local library that fit into the genre your write or read in
- Interview your kids (or other family members) and ask them how they feel about your writing career
- Talk about a genre you secretly want to write in but fear you aren’t able to.
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