Building Momentum!

Twitter might outnumber overall reader and writer numbers but I still find valuable insight there.

• Have all your social media nets lead back to your main source of writer income/shelf. 
• Set up a simple mailing list but dont have it pop up first thing when a reader hits your home page. Have it off to the side, near the top part, maybe near your own e-mail. 
• So readers see your books front and center first.
• Use that extra title space in your book listings to make a subject title of storts: Spaceman: A Hard Sci-fi Space Opera. Or Westward: A Weird West Cthulhu Adventure.
• Twitter can be a mega phone of storts but like any social media, some stuff will get drown out by the overall crowd. 

When I find a book I like, or a series, or a writer: I go looking for....

• A website, A blog. Something that is a central hub for your work. 
• Building Mailing Lists: Here 
• Find like minded writers, or genre specific writers, network. Usually fans will be interacting with them so its like putting a search light out. Not always writing circles. Where do your potential readers usually mingle.  
• You yourself are a resource: Where and how do you find books? That's how you will start finding an audience. Do some polls, ask other people how they discover books and other forms of entertainment. Is it word of mouth? Facebook ads? Ect. 

Now to go help the grandma with her shopping, will add more stuff later. :D