Rescue your Instagram with these 23 proven post formats

💡 your September serving of post ideas for your Instagram audience building and book marketing

📚 Welcome to the latest Instagram post library - a curated menu of trending and proven post ideas that will support you with your Instagram audience building and book marketing.

If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure what to post on Instagram, this library of post ideas is for you! All 23 ideas come with hooks, examples, and explanations of how writers and authors can tweak the most current trends to work for you. With this latest collection of post ideas, you’ll know exactly what to post every time you open the app for the next month.

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Psst… I’m making these post libraries a monthly feature for paid subscribers because I know how often you open the app with every intention of posting today, but then get stuck and end up ‘scrolling for inspiration’ aka wasting precious time and becoming increasingly frustrated. I am here to serve 😉

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Instagram post ideas this way 👇🏼

🎭 So, apparently I’m ___

use this audio and replace ‘dramatic’ with another description of you or your writing/ book. This is the original video but even if you don’t want to lip sync, you could zoom in and out as you are filming, either onto your book, or your own face.

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😃 Me, 30 seconds after ___

This audio has been massive on Tiktok so will probably work well on Instagram 😉. Combine the audio with a short video of you doing what you love - reading, writing, something else - and over the top write the text, ‘Me, 30 seconds after ___’

Example.

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💡 __ alternative titles for my ___

This is an opportunity to give your audience a sneak peak behind the scenes - you could explain why your book has the title it has, and/ or why it changed (if it did). You can also encourage your community to comment if you follow up with, Let me know which one you prefer.

You might also strengthen the ‘insider’ feel of the post by saying something like - I didn’t choose the title for my book, my ___ did. Can you guess which one I wanted? OR if you agreed with the title change you could explain why.

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