Get 10,000 Readers

One of the best ways to connect with readers is for them to find your Facebook author Page organically. Some of our first supporters are family, friends, old classmates, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow authors. Most of us all know how to invite people to "like" our Pages, but not many have their Page listed in their Profile's About section.

I'm feeling lazy today with screen shots and videos, so I'm going to attempt to write out the necessary steps to link your personal FB Profile with your author Page. If it totally bombs I'll go back to video.

First, before we do this, let's make some assumptions. One, you have a FB Profile, whether it's your personal one or for your pen name. And two, you have a FB author Page where you list yourself as an author.

1) Go to your personal profile, and click on the blue About link under your name and personal info.

See mine here

See how it says "Author at C.J. Ellisson" ? The name is highlighted in blue, indicating it is an active FB link. Clicking on it will take people to my actual author page on FB.

2) Select to edit the Work and Education box (the pencil in the upper right corner of the box).

See mine here 

3) Add your current employer by typing in the name of your author Page. It should populate and you can choose it. If it does not, try deleting the other jobs you have listed and try again.

4) If you have multiple series with their own FB pages, or work with a publisher who has a Page, and you'd like to include the info here in your About section, list them as "projects" under your author job and state the dates. You can link to them as well, like you did with your author as your job.

If you list them as separate jobs the most recent date of any "job" will be the one that populates under your name on your profile, like "Works at Avon." You'd be driving people to their Page, but not to your own, which is nice but doesn't gain you any followers.

Those cute jobs that say "Works at Writer", or "Self Employed and Lovin It", or "Romance Author" are fun, but they don't help steer people to your FB Page, which is really the whole point, right?

Hope this helps you gain some followers on your author page.

Please let me know if the steps above don't work for you and I'd be happy to help walk you through it. For one author we had to delete every old job she listed so the system could kind of "reset" and work for her.

Don't give up. I think the added step looks professional and helps your connections to realize, "no, this is not my hobby."

Cheers,
C.J.