Now, you have you followers. You have followers that write in the same genre as you. You have the platform to gain reads.

But getting your followers to notice your book may be harder than it seems. Some people just follow people back without even looking at that person's profile. A way to get someone to click on your profile is to come up in their notifications. There are two ways to do this:

a) pm them (private message them)

b) vote on their story/stories

Let's start with plan A:

What I say is find a follower that you have a lot in common with (you can look in their bio to see) and start up a conversation.

The more you talk to someone, the more you become friends with them. Friends on Wattpad are very supportive and they always seem to vote on your work, and you always vote on theirs. Making friends on Wattpad means your read count, vote count and comments will go up significantly. Plus you make loads of great friends.

Another thing you can do with private messaging people is just to ask people to read your book, however this strategy is flawed UNLESS YOU DO IT RIGHT.

Don't even think about making a copy and paste paragraph that you send to everyone, because a majority of people will just ignore you. Instead I would choose a few people who tend to vote on stories (with small read counts) and write them a personalised message. Look in their bio and if it says 'I love One Direction' and your story is a Harry Styles fanfics you can simply say to them:

Hey! I saw you like One Direction- I've just started writing a fanfic about Harry- if you could please check it out and . I ^_^

So I've highlighted the important bits in bold and let me explain why:

- - this gives you some common interests and the person is more likely to listen to what your saying

this is polite and shows that you are not forcing them to do anything

- this shows you're not vote hungry or read hungry; feedback is also really useful when writing a new book as you can know if people like it

people are more inclined to do things if they know someone will do the same thing in return. However, if they give you nice feedback (or nasty feedback) don't feel inclined to be nice/nasty to them. Be honest.

just shows that your a nice person.

Plan B:

If you vote on someone's work, they usually return the favour without you even having to ask. This is because you come up a lot in their notifications, and at some point they will be curious as to who this new reader is. This means they check out your profile and maybe even your works! This means you get more exposure and more readers.

Hope this will help!

- E

(Note that these techniques only really work on small accounts like your own, I doubt if you vote on big stories (with millions of reads) the author will check out your books)