From: thelastearthman@gmail.com   
      
   Greetings:   
      
   Need some advice. This posting MAY ALSO provide some authors with advice on   
   promoting. Hope you can use it.   
      
   Back in the late 1990’s I was very active in this group. Patricia Wrede, the   
   famous Fantasy author used to drop in here, give advice, which was extremely   
   helpful. I vowed that if I ever become published I would continue her good   
   work.   
       
                       ANYWAY   
   For more than a decade SF magazines such as Aphelion Webzine, Farther Stars   
   Than These, Perihelion Online, etc. have been publishing my SF stories.   
      
   Unfortunately, unlike the daze [sic] of print mags the online mags don’t do   
   much promoting. So it’s pretty much up to the author to get the word out.   
      
   We’re going to point out what we do for promotion and ask you for your   
   comments about such and your sense of what kind of job is done by these places   
   through which we promote.   
      
   Here goes: Facebook Author Pages and Facebook groups get us lots of traffic.   
   Facebook has many Science Fiction and Fantasy groups for both authors and   
   readers. They include but are not restricted to: SCIENCE FICTION WRITING,   
   SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND    
   OTHER GENRES, LEARNING TO PROMOTE, run by Lucinda Hawks Moebius << highly   
   recommended!!!   
      
   There are MANY other groups. Goto Facebook’s search box at the top of your   
   Facebook page, then type in either Science Fiction or Fantasy or whatever   
   you’re looking for.   
      
   GOOGLE+ (Google plus) is another excellent place to promote, maybe better than   
   Facebook.     
      
   The website SFFworld, while slow in operating is a good place to make   
   promotions.   
      
   I just tried INKITT. Would be interested in hearing of other author’s   
   experiences with this site????   
      
   LinkedIn has promotional groups for authors.   
      
   Twitter, Reditt are okay, don’t get us much traffic.   
      
   Music is used in conjunction with our stories. We use Youtube, and we actually   
   have a blog article providing a centralized source for the songs.   
      
   Then there is our blog, which specializes in SF, provides links to our   
   stories, the above-mentioned music, writing hints, etc..   
      
   Your advice?   
      
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