Mom – let’s go for a walk. Please – I want to take pictures of the snow. I stare at my computer screen. I have several deadlines looming — but it’s so beautiful outside. I’m not very good at resisting an adventure. We dress warm and head out into the forest…
Author: Lisa Hall-Wilson
Freelance Writer. Fantasy Author. Call it as I see it truth-teller. Justice Seeker. Jesus Girl. Leave-Your-Mask-At-Home-Girl. Facebook is my happy place.
Business Of Writing
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A Contest Changed My Life
Hard to believe, right? Winning a single contest could change the path of your life so irreversibly, but it did. Like most writers, I grew up wanting to be a writer and for a number of what seemed like very practical reasons didn’t pursue it. Years later, after getting an…
Editing And Marketing Fiction
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4 Things Writers Should Decide Before Posting
Many writers want to instantly be bestsellers so they turn to the gorilla of social media and expect this magical panacea to bring readers to them. Not so much. With Facebook, like any marketing strategy, you need a plan. You need to know what your content objectives are, how you’ll…
Editing And Marketing Fiction
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Would You Click On That Link?
It’s important not to be a one-writer/artist show on Facebook. It’s absolutely OK to share links from other writers or blogs and promote other people’s work if it’s something your fans would enjoy. The problems I see are when only links to a writer’s own content (sometimes to the exclusion of…
Editing And Marketing Fiction
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Writers: Stop Mutual Like-Fests on Facebook
“If you like my Page, I’ll like yours back. Then we both have more followers and everybody wins.” Nope. Not even close. Please stop — for the love of bacon and beavers this isn’t helping you. Worse, you’re hurting your organic reach. (No, organic reach is not dead.) Here’s why. No…
Editing And Marketing Fiction
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10 Cover Photo Tips For Writers
Your Page’s or Profile’s cover photo is some of the most valuable marketing real estate you have on Facebook – how are you using that space to promote your writing or brand? A cover photo is the large photo at the top of Pages and Profiles. This is a big…