What is Tuesday Book Blog? How Can #BookBloggers And #Writers Benefit From Using It?

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Rosie Amber

Why Is Tuesday Book Blog Important For Book Bloggers And Writers Alike?

Hashtags drive more traffic to your blog – many users of #TuesdayBookBlog report a regular weekly view count increase. How can you join in?

What is Tuesday Book Blog?

Most writers and bloggers know about the benefits of ‘blog share’ days, the first one of which was started by Rachel Thompson, with her fabulously successful #MondayBlogs.

In 2015, a few of us in Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team (#RBRT) decided to start our own: #TuesdayBookBlog. Since then, it has proved to be a wonderful way for writers and book bloggers to share their posts, and it appears on the trending lists every week. Here’s how to get the best out of it:

DO post:

Basically, any blog posts about books and writing:

Book reviews – for your own books, people’s, or book reviews you’ve written on your blog.

Author Interviews

Cover reveals

Upcoming/new releases

Articles or guest posts about books/writers

Retweet others on the hashtag for best results! Twitter works like any social media site; the more you share others’ posts, the more traction your own will receive.

DO NOT post:

Basically, anything that ISN’T a blog post about books or writing!

Book promotion with buy links

Any other sort of book promotion, motivational memes, etc

General tweets/pictures about writing and books.

Hardcore erotica (porn).

We hope you will achieve good results from #TuesdayBookBlog, and look forward to seeing you there!

Sunday Connection – What we’ve been reviewing this week, plus blogosphere links #SundayBlogShare

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Rosie Amber

Here’s what we’ve been reviewing this week

Monday – Judith B reviewed WW2 thriller The Circumstantial Enemy by John R Bell

Tuesday – I reviewed conscious storytelling Trusting The Currents by Lynnda Pollio

Wednesday – Judith B reviewed short stories Donkey Boy and Other Stories by Mary Smith

Thursday – Cathy reviewed paranormal thriller Marked by B.E. Balfinny

Friday – Jenny R reviewed horror Ghosts Of Manor House by Matt Powers

Saturday Noelle reviewed action thriller Ryan Kaine On The Defensive by Kerry J Donovan

Fun posts

10 Romance books for a Valentine read

WWW Wednesday – books I’m currently reading

Fab News

The Rosie Amber Book Blog has been recognised as a Top UK book blog by Feedspot (We currently rank number 36)

Posts from around the blogosphere

This week London Book Fair announced plans for awards to Book Bloggers, Book Tubers and Bookstagrammers to celebrate social media influencers and their important contribution to the UK book industry.

http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/UKBookBlogAwards

Goodreads ratings, the maths behind it all

https://vickywhoreads.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/a-math-lesson-why-5-stars-does-not-negate-a-1-star-on-goodreads-vice-versa/

Do you need a twitter usage refresher?

https://bookmachine.org/2017/12/10/twitter-guide-will-make-see-youre-wrong-make-right-authors/?utm_content=buffer8aa18&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

#ReBlog How To Get More Twitter Followers by @TerryTyler4 #TwitterTips #MondayBlogs

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Rosie Amber

Getting More Twitter Followers

Rosie @rosieamber1 asked me to write a few short guest posts about how to get the most out of Twitter, so I’m starting with the basics—getting followers.

Much of Twitter’s effectivity is down to how many eyes see your tweets—so whether you’re promoting your book or your blog, growing your business or just hoping to entertain people/get your voice heard, it makes sense to give that number a boost now and again.

At the time of writing I have 87K followers, with very little effort – and no, I didn’t buy them! Don’t ever be tempted to do that, as those for sale are not real profiles, but spam accounts. Yes, a proportion of my followers are accounts trying to get me to buy followers, or porn stuff, people who don’t speak English or general spamming, but I do get followed by many real and interesting people every day.

I’ve found that once you get to around 10K followers, and if you are active on the site (using it most days, retweeting others), your following grows automatically, because you appear on the ‘Who To Follow’ lists.

Here’s how to expand your following:

- Follow others. Sounds obvious, but many don’t bother. Pro-active following will make you appear on ‘Who To Follow’ lists, too.
- How to find the right people? Enter the subjects that interest you into ‘Search Twitter’ at the top right hand side of the screen. For instance, you might choose ‘bookworm’, ‘book bloggers’, ‘history’, ‘reading’ ‘traveller’, etc. Then go to ‘People’, at the left hand side (on a laptop). This will give you a list of all the people with that word mentioned in their bio.
- You can also put hashtags into the search, for instance #bookblogger #author #SciFiWriter #TuesdayBookBlog #bookreview, etc, and seek out accounts in the same way.

Just following 10 or 20 accounts every time you log on will soon get it all moving.

When you RT people on hashtag days such as #TuesdayBookBlog or #MondayBlogs, follow them, too, and follow anyone who RTs you. This helps to expand your reach out of your usual circles.
You’ve seen #FF, the Follow Friday hashtag? Use it! Click on any user names mentioned—any mentioned by others will be active Twitter users who interact, retweet and post interesting stuff.
Click on your ‘followers’ every day, and follow back anyone who looks useful/interesting. Don’t follow back spam or pointless profiles, or you’ll end up getting followed by more and more of them; it’s best to block them.

That should get it all moving! I started trying to grow mine about three years ago, just before I started a free promotion for a book; I was determined that as many people should see it as possible, so made it my aim to get to 10K followers. Just out of interest, I’d like to mention that my proofreading sister, @ProofreadJulia, has developed her whole successful business entirely through Twitter, from my original tuition about the site. Of course she is very good at what she does, and has a good business sense, but this just goes to show how powerful Twitter can be if used to its full potential.