I already had a reputation on DeviantArt as an artist and a writer. The front page is where I blog about news, ideas, excerpts, interviews, initiatives and communicate with my small fandom. The blog itself is a website to host my stories and artwork. My fiction blog is about a series of short stories and illustrations that have robots, humans and aliens as the protagonists. This post is about how I used DeviantART in 2013 to bring 20+ fans/readers to my fiction blog and to follow my updates online and via a private mailing list. It might work with other areas as well, if you are creative enough to bring the best of both worlds (your niche and visual content) together. Having your content and a community on DA helps if your blogging niche falls into one of the following areas: When Is DeviantART the Right Promotion Channel for You?

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DA is a social network from head to toe, and while it is mainly geared for artists and fiction writers, it offers plenty of social opportunities to bloggers as well, including: That's a pity, because DeviantART (I'll call it DA for short sometimes in this post) is much more than a gallery page for artists.

I added DeviantART to my list of unusual yet effective platforms for bloggers here at WHSR and quite a lot of readers told me they had never even considered DeviantART to promote their blog posts. Have you ever given DeviantART a chance as your content promotion channel?

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