Respond to comments on your books

Hello lovelies,

Today we're going to be focusing on why it is important to respond to comments on your books. This is another key technique that can be used to help you gain readers and followers on both Inkitt and Wattpad. When you respond to comments on your book you engage with multiple readers, show the readers that you are interesting in their opinions, you can provide insight on the part of the book they commented on and also gain different ideas from the readers.

When someone leaves a comment on your book anyone can reply to that comment. What makes this even more interesting is that you have the ability to create an entire conversation from that single comment. For example, someone commented on my book and I responded to it, persons noticed that it was the author that responded and started to reply also leaving a chain of messages that resulted from one post. This will boost your popularity as an author and gain you more readers. 

I make it a point to reply to as many comments on my book as I possibly can. I appreciate the fact that they are not just readers of my book but they're people who took time out of their life to read my book and comment their thoughts. I also try my very best to answer every question I come across, especially when it seems like the person is confused or not completely sure about what happened. Its good to provide insight on what's happening in the book so the readers won't be clueless and they'll come back for more.

Sometimes when uploading you might not be completely happy with a chapter or you might like the way it is but feel as if something is different or you don't know how to move from there. This is the time where you should be most focused on your comments section. More than likely readers are commenting what they would have liked to see happen, things they didn't expect and ideas for future chapters. This is a great way to consider what your readers want but adding your own twist to it.

And there you have it. The reasons why responding to comments on your book is so important and how it could gain you more readers. 

A picture is worth a thousand words but words tell stories

Ruth

xoxo

Respond to posts on your profile

Hello my lovelies, in this post we're going to be tackling another technique I used to grow as an online writer on Wattpad. Today we're going to talk about why it is important to respond to posts that are made on your profile. For all who don't know this there is a section on your Wattpad profile that says conversations, that is were your friends, family and readers can leave a public comment. 

You might wonder why doesn't the person just send you a private message. Though effective you have to remember that you don't know them and they don't know you. Your practically strangers, so they would feel more nervous contacting you personally than just making a post that everyone can see. Also Wattpad has no read receipts so you can never really tell when someone has read your private message. The same applies for posts on your profile you can't tell when the reader reads them but more than likely they will see it. For example, whenever I visit Wattpad the first thing I do is to check my profile, mostly to monitor the progress of my books but also to quickly scan through the messages on my profile.  

As I've mentioned before you don't know each other which is why it is important to respond to as many of the messages as you can. This is to help build a relationship between you and the reader, so he/she feels as if your more than just strangers. Sometimes when I respond persons are very surprised and also thrilled that I took the time to talk to them and it keeps them coming back for more. This also helps to unite persons who visit your profile. For example, there are times when I comment on a message left by a reader and a completely different reader ends up joining in on the conversation. 

As a Jamaican author I can tell you that it is amazing an rewarding to be interactive on your profile. No one likes a stuck up or mean person. 

'It doesn't cost anything to be nice to people'