a writer's starter guide to twitter (or: everything I wish someone had told me when I first started using twitter)

Publishing is changing. "It's not an evolution," Jane Friedman commented recently, "but a revolution…And it's not going back."

Part of that revolution involves the still-evolving notion of author platform. A key part of any author's platform is Twitter. It forms what I consider the Golden Triangle of blog/facebook/twitter that form the heart and home of your online presence.

You find writers all over Twitter. It's not just about self-promotion. Whether you're 'following' the tweets of...