I contracted with author Mia Sanchez for a content pull of Son of the Siren.

What is a content pull?

It’s designed for social media and web marketing. The entire contents of your book is read, and the reader will mark quotes, hooks, design ideas for social media like Instagram reels, take screenshots of the text for posting purposes; etc. Mia wrote like 20 pages of content taken from Son of the Siren for me to use.

And then I let it sit for a couple of months because I was busy working on The Name and the Key. But recently I’ve been getting into Canva more (I’m on a free 30-day trial of Canva Pro), using Canva templates for social media (I post to Threads, Instagram, and Facebook), and then implementing the content Mia pulled from the book.

She selected more than twenty quotes for me to focus on, and of those, I chose 18 to create for Instagram and other sites. The next section I’m diving into is “hooks,” which I guess are lines from the book that really draw you in.

I think I’ve lost my mind with Canva, though. I spent quite a few hours on it yesterday building up posts to share on social media daily. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

Except for the red template that shows me and my bio (created with a Premium premade design in Canva), the rest of the templates I used were created by avaasbooks, who occasionally gives away author templates FOR FREE (follow her on Threads for these).

The above images don’t come from the content pull Mia did. I plan on posting those starting next week, but here’s a preview of one:

Alas, with it being Monday, December 1, I need to take a break from this creative explosion and get back into catching up on all of my teaching work. I told students I’d be unavailable over break because I was out of state for Thanksgiving (yay!), but now I need to focus. In the meantime, stay tuned to my Instagram, Facebook, or Threads account to see when these babies go live!