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Personal book recommendations are also awesome for engagement, both with your readers and with other authors. Did you just finish a book that you really enjoyed? Share it! Are you about to start something new in your genre? Ask your followers about it! You’re trying to engage an audience of readers—if they read your book, they’re probably interested in other books in similar genres too. Plus, if you’re lucky, you might just wind up connecting with that author.

Create Something Create your book and share it with the world. Start Slovenia Email List Your Book 3. Support Your Community Supporting your community can mean a variety of different things depending on what, exactly, your community is. As an independent author, one of , and another is probably writers. If you’re a Lulu author—or any other publisher, for that matter—that’s another community you’re a member of. If you’re writing genre fiction, there’s a community of readers and authors there, if you’re writing non-fiction your genre probably has communities that exist both within the publishing world and without.



Share social media content about and in support of your communities, whatever they may be and whatever that may look like. It might be broad updates and content, like news about a new discovery in your field or an upcoming conference for fans of your genre. It might be community calls-to-action, like the recent outpouring of support for indie bookstores that are struggling to stay open during the pandemic.