✨WIN✨ a 90 minute 121 worth £210, plus more birthday goodness 🎂

It's my party and I'll give away gifts if I want to 😉

❤️Update: winners have been drawn and notified. Congratulations to Kathleen, Elaine and Jane. I hope you love your prizes! ❤️

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🎂Last week I marked the first birthday of the Too Much Instagram membership!

The membership is my answer to the overwhelm and anxiety writers often feel when you’re faced with getting out into the online world to find more readers. It’s a safe, welcoming space filled with fellow writers and authors where you can access advice about post ideas, tips to help you grow your account, tutorials on features like Reels, and more.

Creating the membership is probably the best business decision I have made over the last two years so, to celebrate the membership being ONE YEAR OLD this month, I’m hosting some giveaways and other events that you can get involved with 😊

Photo by Analia Baggiano on Unsplash

I’m celebrating, are you celebrating?

If you’d like to join in with the birthday celebrations you can…

1. Join me for a FREE Instagram masterclass on Friday 13th June, 12-1.30pm BST:

I’ve created the 10 Essential Instagram Habits For Effective Book Marketing Masterclass because over the last couple of years of focusing on supporting writers and authors with book launches and platform building, I’ve noticed that the writers who use Instagram most effectively develop and demonstrate some similar habits.

In this FREE 90 minute masterclass I’ll walk you through 10 of these habits - what they are, and the impact each one has - so you can get a feel for what it takes to use Instagram to effectively promote, and find readers for, your books and writing. Spoiler alert: it isn’t spending hours each day on Instagram, or ‘performing’ of any kind.

To come along to the LIVE masterclass, and/or to receive the recording, please sign up with your email address below. Please note that to receive the recording, you MUST agree to receive further emails from me. You may unsubscribe later at any point.

2. 🛑 ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED 🛑 Enter this giveaway - entries open today! Three prizes, three winners 🥇🥈🥉

Prizes you can win:

• a 90 minute 121 Unravel Call with me, worth £210 🧠 Click here for more details.

• a six month membership to the Too Much Instagram community (the membership I host here on Substack for paid subscribers - scroll down to the bottom to find out what is included), worth £72 👯‍♀️

• a six month membership to The Fold by

  Penny Wincer
  , creator of
  Not Too Busy To Write
  , worth £100 ✍🏻 Click here to find out what is included.

How to enter: subscribe to Too Much (the free tier, not the paid!) and post a Note that mentions me and what I do. Tag me so I can see your entry.

Closing date: midday on Wednesday 18th June.

The winners will be chosen at random and contacted via email and/or Substack DM. The first name to be drawn will have first pick of the prizes; the second name to be drawn will be able to choose from the two remaining prizes; and the third name to be drawn will be awarded the remaining prize! Winners will have one week to respond from the date of my initial contact and should they not make contact I will draw again.

3. Join me for a bumper book giveaway! Entries open on Monday 23rd June 📚📚📚

If you’d like to win a bundle of bookish goodness, more details are coming next week!

Pssst… If you have a book that you’d like to promote to my 1200 Substack readers, and 2.4k Instagram followers, I'm going to run the giveaway for the duration of w/c 23rd June and I'll be promoting it on Instagram and Substack.

Email nicola@toomuchsocial.com with the following information by Thursday 19th June 2025 and I’ll include you in the giveaway:

1. an image of your book cover

2. a brief description of what it’s about (max 50 words) and/ or who will enjoy it

3. a link to where people can buy it that I will include in the Substack promotion of the giveaway

4. your Instagram handle so I can tag you on IG (if relevant to you)

Please note that I’m not able to cover postage so if you’d like to limit where you’re able to post the book to e.g US only, UK only etc. please mention this in your email.

4. Join me and

Sara Dalrymple

for an exclusive sales for authors training.

Sara’s book, More Sales Please, has a permanent spot on my desk and I love what she stands for.

Sara (who you can find on Instagram as well) specialises in supporting small business owners who don’t see themselves as natural salespeople, and who often procrastinate on promotion because it feels so awkward (sounding familiar?) Obviously not all of you are small business people but I think much of what Sara has to say will be super-relevant to you, so I’m excited for you to meet her in July.

This session will be open to all TMI members AND to FIVE lucky prize winners. More details to follow soon ❤️

This feels like a good time to tell you about my monthly membership, TOO MUCH INSTAGRAM which is hosted here on Substack.

Members benefit from:

• a weekly online chat where you can access feedback, advice and encouragement in a safe, judgement-free space

• a monthly Ask Me Anything session where you can get more detailed advice with any sticky problems

• fortnightly co-working sessions where we create posts in company

• a wealth of other resources, ideas, and tutorials to support you with using Instagram to get more readers

• and you also get to be part of a brilliantly warm and welcoming community of writers and authors all facing in the same direction.

You can browse the archive here. Upgrade your subscription to become a member ❤️