This is the very best part of being an author in the social media age…

Twitter account? Free.

RSS alerts on the name of your play on Twitter? Also free.

Getting to see your real fans getting excited about auditions, quoting lines from the show back and forth and getting cast in your play? So freaking priceless.

I see these kind of tweets all the time and I don't always share them because that seems like madness but, believe me, I totally read them.

(I know that Twitter is public but I blurred the names and photos because sometimes teens don't realize how public ...