I finally did it. I created a Facebook author/blog page! I even figured out how to put the widget in my right sidebar here on the blog, although at time of publishing this it still wasn’t showing up properly in Firefox (although Chrome is fine… weird) and I don’t that’s something you see if you’re viewing the blog on your phone… But hey, I still managed it! 🙂
I’m still working out what I’m doing with it, but I’m getting there. In the meantime, if any of you would be kind enough to drop by and “Like” my Facebook page I would really appreciate it. It’s a bit lonely over there at the moment… *tumbleweed rolls past as the wind howls*.
If you have a Facebook page, please leave me a link in the comments below so I can return the favour 🙂
Also, if any of you have any Facebook wisdom/insight of the “if only I’d known this when I started using Facebook” kind, I’d really appreciate you sharing it with me! Are there any groups I should join, for example?
And as if that weren’t enough, I finally got onto Pinterest too. So far I only have a few boards, but it would be nice to have some friends on there. If you have an account, please let me know in the comments below so I can find and follow you 🙂
You’ll see I also put together a little bookish social media graphic to put at the bottom of my posts. Clicking on the appropriate button will take you to my pages on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads and Pinterest. Looking forward to “seeing” you there. If I’m not yet your friend on Goodreads or Twitter, leave me the links for those too so I can put that right!
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
Art and Soul 
I remember when I first started on Facebook, and how much I still had to learn…it’s fun, though.
Here’s my FB link: https://www.facebook.com/laurelrain.snow
And here’s my Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/laurelrainsnow/
Have fun!
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Oh, those pages are not for “liking,” although some of the posts might be. I also have pages for my blogs and the books I’ve written.
Here’s a page for my newest novel: https://www.facebook.com/marthascottcummings/
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OK! 🙂
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Thank you! I’ll go and check those out now 🙂
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KJ86CHAPMAN/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/KJ_CHAPMAN86/
I will definitely give you a follow on both 🙂
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Thank you! I’ll go and like/follow now 🙂
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Awesome! I also did the same thing waiting to create a Facebook author page. Good luck!!!
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Thank you! It’s all a bit daunting. I feel like I only just got the hang of WordPress and there are still occasions when it does things I just don’t understand. Branching out onto other platforms can be a bit scary at first 🙂
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I know how you feel. I’m used to Facebook, but I have no idea how to use Twitter so whenever I get that up I”m going to be like ahh I don’t know what I”m doing. I figured, I should learn one thing at a time. Blogging first, then publishing, then more social media to follow. That is the goal anyway
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liked and followed 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Now following you on both! 🙂
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Thank you! I will now be spending quite a while on your cake board, ahem, I mean healthy recipes board 😉
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Haha! Well, as of Monday they will nearly all healthy! haha
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Liked your page 🙂 This is my link
https://www.facebook.com/betweenthelinesbookblog?ref=hl
Love your book icon links!
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Thank you! They took a little while to make… (i.e. far longer than they should have!).
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It took me ages as well 🙂
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I’ll head to Facebook and ‘Like’ you! I’m on FB too but it’s quiet over there!
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Thank you! I know… I’m hoping that if I find a few lovely WP bloggers over there then I’ll have more to see/talk about! 🙂
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I’m on Facebook as well (https://www.facebook.com/darcysbookblog/); the theme among us seems to be that it is quiet and I can quite agree! I’ll head over there now and “Like” you. 🙂
I’m also on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/missbennet87/
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Thank you! I’ll go and check out both your pages now. We’ll have to see if we can liven things up a bit on fb! 🙂
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Yes we will! 🙂
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Oh Lord, you have a board just for Mr Hiddleston. I shall get nothing done! 😉
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Lol! 😀
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I don’t have an author Facebook page but I do have a Pinterest page which I see you found 😉 Can’t wait to see what all you post. It’s such a fun time waster…I source for inspiration.
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Pinterest should help me get organised. Before I just had loads of random pages bookmarked. Hopefully using Pinterest will make it harder for me to lose stuff 🙂
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Yes will do when I get home from work this evening and you will have to tell me how you inserted your pretty social media graphic icons!! Well done 🙂
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The icons turned out to be more complicated than I thought! It was fairly straightforward to find the licence-free little clipart books and some social media buttons. I resized and put them all together into one image using Paint. The hard part was getting four different parts of the image to contain links to different websites.
For that I used a free, online image map generator (like this one: http://imagemap-generator.dariodomi.de/). The rest of the process is a bit fiddly and I don’t know if I’m boring you. But if you want to know, just say!
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Thanks Claire, I will check out the imagemap-generator. Do you have any issues sharing on Facebook? I do, simply cannot get my images to appear with my post. It shows up as an empty box on Facebook. Am not very tech-savvy but still working on it. At least I have no problem sharing through Instagram! Thanks for replying 🙂 Oh and if anyone has a similar issue and knows how to resolve it…would love to hear it. Thanks again!
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I haven’t had that problem with Facebook (yet). I still can’t see the FB widget in my WordPress sidebar when navigating using Firefox, which is odd. I’m hoping one day it might just appear!
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Yes, sometimes when making changes there is a delayed reaction..it should appear.
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I’m going to go look for your page on Facebook now. 🙂 I have a page for my blog too, it’s at: https://www.facebook.com/hayleysblog/
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Thank you! I’ll check out your fb page now 🙂
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Using pinterest as another social media to post links to my reviews 🙂 – https://www.pinterest.com/dzelonis/
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Thanks! I’ll go and follow you now 🙂
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