Twitter 101 for Authors
Hello Fellow Writers!
Let's talk Twitter. I'm on Twitter (@ShoshannaEvers), and if you follow me I'll follow you back.
This is an excerpt about Twitter from my #1 Amazon Kindle Bestseller in Authorship book, How to Write Hot Sex: Tips From Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors. There are 12 essays from best-selling and multi-published authors in this book, and this excerpt comes from my essay "Getting Published".
***Oh wait, you say you've never heard any of these terms bandied about because you're not in any publishing circles? Let's get you connected really quickly then. Join Twitter.
Don't tell me you don't "get" Twitter. Simply put, if you are an author or are aspiring to be one, you are shooting yourself in the foot by avoiding Twitter. You don't need to have a fancy phone or be able to text (myths that kept me off Twitter for years).
Just go online to www.Twitter.com and use your pen name as your Twitter handle. That way you're building name recognition every time you Tweet. I like to use TweetDeck, a free software that makes Twitter really easy to use.
You can set up searches for hashtags, which are topics. On TweetDeck, I create a separate column for each of my favorite hashtags: #amwriting #amediting #amreading #askeditor #askagent #writechat and #pubwrite.
Just like that, you've found other writers and authors and publishing peeps online to connect with.
One thing I've heard over and over again is "I tried Twitter, but I have nothing interesting to say." No! You've got it all wrong. Twitter isn't about shouting into the Universe, it's about listening.
Follow anyone you like. Follow Publisher's Weekly. Follow all the big literary agents. Follow your favorite authors—and tell them they're your favorite! We love that. Really really truly.
***
Read the intro to How to Write Hot Sex here.
How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors is available now for only $4.99 from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.com.
Let's talk Twitter. I'm on Twitter (@ShoshannaEvers), and if you follow me I'll follow you back.
This is an excerpt about Twitter from my #1 Amazon Kindle Bestseller in Authorship book, How to Write Hot Sex: Tips From Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors. There are 12 essays from best-selling and multi-published authors in this book, and this excerpt comes from my essay "Getting Published".
***Oh wait, you say you've never heard any of these terms bandied about because you're not in any publishing circles? Let's get you connected really quickly then. Join Twitter.
Don't tell me you don't "get" Twitter. Simply put, if you are an author or are aspiring to be one, you are shooting yourself in the foot by avoiding Twitter. You don't need to have a fancy phone or be able to text (myths that kept me off Twitter for years).
Just go online to www.Twitter.com and use your pen name as your Twitter handle. That way you're building name recognition every time you Tweet. I like to use TweetDeck, a free software that makes Twitter really easy to use.
You can set up searches for hashtags, which are topics. On TweetDeck, I create a separate column for each of my favorite hashtags: #amwriting #amediting #amreading #askeditor #askagent #writechat and #pubwrite.
Just like that, you've found other writers and authors and publishing peeps online to connect with.
One thing I've heard over and over again is "I tried Twitter, but I have nothing interesting to say." No! You've got it all wrong. Twitter isn't about shouting into the Universe, it's about listening.
Follow anyone you like. Follow Publisher's Weekly. Follow all the big literary agents. Follow your favorite authors—and tell them they're your favorite! We love that. Really really truly.
***
Read the intro to How to Write Hot Sex here.
How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors is available now for only $4.99 from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.com.
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