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I am notoriously bad about promoting my work. Seriously, aside from my banner ads here, I used to promo on Facebook and Twitter, but social media gives me the creeps lately, so I’ve not been promoting like I should. Argh. However, I don’t think I’d post a chapter on Facebook, at least not for my published stuff. My AFF content tends to be very niche, and I doubt I’d drag in a huge audience even if I did promote those on social media. And there’s absolutely nothing out there under my real name. I don’t even “like” my author accounts under my real name, although my pen names did follow each other on Facebook. Now I feel like I have to go ramp up my Mastadon account, and do some promoting there if I can, and maybe drop a line or two on Facebook again.

Recently, I noticed a few people who are posting entire chapters of their fanfic directly on Facebook as a way to try and promote their work. Obviously these things aren’t necessarily for more adult content but it’s often the opening chapter. This seems really weird to me personally. So I’m curious what people do to promote their content. Either here or elsewhere.

I suppose we *could* post adult smut to facebook, see how quickly we’re banned.

Hi, Deadman and all. That would depend on what I’m writing. If I had something I was writing under my actual name, I’d certainly post “teasers” at least, particularly if the story itself was behind a paywall where I received a nice portion of the revenue from it. My writing here is under a ‘double-pseudonym’ for anonymity, so the promotion opportunities are quite limited. I thought about creating a larger ‘online presence’ for this pseudonym while writing this reply, and discarded the idea out of hand as ‘too much work.’ YMMD. Although I’ve yet to be paid for anything I’ve written, I have posted content under my own name, mostly in history and public opinion. Cheers!