Three Ways to Promote Yourself and Your Stories
(1) Contact with Readers
Interacting with readers is one of the most efficient ways to do self-promotion. In this term, writers can easily use the functions on writing or reading platforms to communicate with readers. For example, you can apply the Author’s Note to promote their stories and talk to your readers with Stary Writing. Every time you publish a new chapter, you can fill up the Author’s Note with the core of the chapter, your thoughts about the chapter, or the writing event you take part in. Applying this tool appropriately, readers will know you and your story better. Meanwhile, you can keep in touch with readers through comments frequently to thank them for their support and know about how they feel about your works.
(2) Run the Circle of Readers
The process of running the readers’ circle is the process of maintaining a healthy relationship with readers and increasing loyalty among them. To achieve this, you can pay attention to three aspects — reminder, preview, and opinion collection.
Reminder: inform readers when you will update a new chapter or start writing a new story. It would help them keep up with your pace.
Preview: at the end of a chapter, give a short preview of the next chapter. You can leave an exciting plot or suspense, which will cause the reader’s curiosity in the preview. Their curiosity will push them to continue reading your story.
Opinion Collection: readers’ opinions always matter. As a writer, you should listen to readers, figure out what they evaluate your story, what they wonder to read in the story, and what inspiration they might bring to you.
(3) Use Social Media
There is a golden rule for writers who want to promote their works on social media — adding the link that can jump to the stories. This link would increase traffic to their stories and might make self-promotion more effective.
Besides, you can select different social media based on your target readers and writing style. For example, if your target readers are young and you want to have more in-depth discussions with readers and writers, Facebook could be your first choice.