Best Tweets for Writers (week ending 7/29/11)


By Jane Friedman

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I watch Twitter, so you don’t have to. Visit each Sunday for the week’s best tweets. If I missed a great Tweet, leave it in the comments.

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Best of the Best

The vague test and your first line
@Kid_Lit

Should your agent self-publish you? Can your agent self-publish you?
@Bob_Mayer


Getting Published

6 tips for your book’s market analysis
@elizabethscraig


Publishing News + Trends

Publishing is living in a world not of its own making
@mikeshatzkin

The newsonomics of Netflix and the digital shift / Nieman Lab
@jafurtado

Digital Reading: Getting Beyond the Book Fetish
@bklynanne


Marketing + Self-Promotion

Pitch Trainwrecks: How Not to Pitch Bloggers and Media
@jonathanfields

2 Rules for Online Self Promotion
@elizabethscraig

The Paradoxical Secret of Obsession-Worthy Branding by @michaelellsberg
@justinemusk


Social Media

We’ve counted nearly 400 writers on Google+. Here are six G+ promotional tools for writers
@GalleyCat

Updated Google+ Literary Lists directory for easier sharing (writers, kidlit/YA, book bloggers, librarians, etc.)
@inkyelbows

Unbound: Kickstarter for book projects
@Weegee


Blogging + Websites

The art of getting more traffic for your blog /more people who give a damn
@justinemusk

Nice inspirational list RT @problogger 14 Types of stories can you tell on your blog
@JeanD99

An amazing article for bloggers & tweeters. Light bulb moment!
@RachelleGardner


Self-Publishing + E-Publishing

The Hybrid Writer: Balancing Traditional and Self-publishing
@Bob_Mayer

How to Make Six Figures in Self-Publishing
@wegrowmedia

The marvelous @donovancreed (John Locke) answers questions: writing fast, finding customers & foreign rights
@thecreativepenn

Kindle for the Web – How It Can Be Used by Authors? 
@namenick

A journalist’s guide to eBook publishing
@robertniles


The Writing Life

The New Vastness
@jimhanas

5 articles that will make you stop in your tracks
@the99percent


Other Resources

Best links for writers and publishers
@40kbooks

 

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  • http://bellavidabyletty.blogspot.com/ BellaVida

    I’ve been so busy I really do appreciate these roundups you post. Thanks again.

  • http://www.janefriedman.com Jane Friedman

    Good to know people still enjoy them! Provides motivation to continue.

  • Marsha Prescod

    Just started a twitter account 3 weeks ago.The #shakespeare4murdoch thread drew me in and I had a ball tweeting extracts from Hamlet and MacBeth. In the course of looking around twitter I saw your tweets and started following you. Thank you for your helpful, warm and welcoming material. Im about to gird up my loins and set up a blog before publishing on kindle. Your help for writers is fabulous. :-)  

  • http://www.janefriedman.com Jane Friedman

    Thanks so much, Marsha! (And I promise the best tweets feature will be back next week. I was at a writers conference this past weekend.)

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