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I can't think of anything in particular, but go for it - I've found an author page on Facebook to be really useful to keep my friends up to date with my writing without blithering on about it too much on my personal page.
It also allows you to connect with other pages by liking them 'as' your page so you can raise awareness of your presence that way.
Oh yes, get a nice header image that shows off your work!
On your personal FB account, go to the top bar and use the drop down arrow point, click on create page. This will then bring up a page of boxes and you choose the most appropriate category from there.
Once everything is set up you can manage that page from your FB account by just clicking on the name link in that dropdown arrow point, or by the shortcut - on my desktop it's the left-hand side of my newsfeed page, along with the links to any FB groups I belong to.
So depending whether you're on your personal page, or your writer page, you can share things between them by changing the account/page you want something to be posted to.
I think I found 'Writer' somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't remember where. It wasn't at all obvious. You can update things as you go along though.
You can link it to Twitter, etc. You could also leave links to your blog on there, Lizy.
I'm going to relaunch mine soon as it is about animals mainly atm and really, most of my books are not about animals any more. Half will be, in March...
I find it an irritating thing as they keep asking me to spend money to 'feature' posts.
What's annoying is that the majority of the posts don't get seen by followers. FB takes it upon themselves to hold back posts from general viewing unless, as Liz says, you pay to promote them. Pah to that!
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It also allows you to connect with other pages by liking them 'as' your page so you can raise awareness of your presence that way.
Oh yes, get a nice header image that shows off your work!
This will then bring up a page of boxes and you choose the most appropriate category from there.
Once everything is set up you can manage that page from your FB account by just clicking on the name link in that dropdown arrow point, or by the shortcut - on my desktop it's the left-hand side of my newsfeed page, along with the links to any FB groups I belong to.
So depending whether you're on your personal page, or your writer page, you can share things between them by changing the account/page you want something to be posted to.
It's easier once you can see it in front of you.
Why is nothing ever simple?
You can link it to Twitter, etc. You could also leave links to your blog on there, Lizy.
I'm going to relaunch mine soon as it is about animals mainly atm and really, most of my books are not about animals any more. Half will be, in March...
I find it an irritating thing as they keep asking me to spend money to 'feature' posts.
I went for 'writer'.
BUT I seem to have opened three new pages!! How can I delete two of them?
Right - Facebook apparently have to approve the change, and it will take them three days!
When we've been shopping I shall look at others' pages to see what else I need.
Any suggestions welcome!