You’ve heard of it. You’ve looked at it. You may have even played with it and thrown around the term “repin” with your close friends. You know it’s powerful, and you want to engage with it to promote your book, but you don’t know how.

Look no further.

At its core, Pinterest is a virtual style-board – a place to collect and share images relating to your personal interests. At a basic level, people use Pinterest to post and share images and content linking back to an original source. Because there are millions of people using Pinterest, the potential to have your content shared is enormous, making it an effective means for book promotion.

How to Use Pinterest as an Author

The ultimate goal of a Pinterest account is to have people follow your boards and repin your pins, thereby promoting your book and you as an author. To encourage this, it’s important to have a strategy and stick to a plan. Though there are countless ways to use Pinterest; the following tips will help you establish a foundation for a promotion strategy that is adjustable yet effective:  Continue reading →