November Roundup: Hot Tweetables at #WU
By Heather Webb | November 24, 2013 |
November impressed us with its mountain of words for National Novel Writing Month, and its many reasons to be thankful, including all of the wonderful nominations you submitted for us to become writing website of the year at Write to Done , Technorati, and Writer’s Digest. We thank you! (P.S. It’s not too late to submit votes!) As for publishing news, there’s always plenty of that.
Publishing News
(#WUPrint)
"Coming to a bookstore near you: Authors as booksellers" via LA Times http://t.co/l2s5npvns9 #WUPrint
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 14, 2013
"What's the Key to Solving the Book Discoverability Problem?" @pubperspectives http://t.co/AvTePBEhlp #WUPrint
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 18, 2013
"Indie Bookstores Don't Take Kindly To Amazon's Kindle Offer" via @nprbooks http://t.co/pE68zlhTAd #WUPrint
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 7, 2013
Agent Alerts
(#WUAgent)
AGENT ALERT: Erica Rand Silverman seeks picture books, MG, YA http://t.co/x3kDb0DOQP #WUAgent
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 12, 2013
AGENT ALERT: J.L. Stermer seeks YA and women's fiction. @writersdigest http://t.co/f7iHwDu6oQ #WUAgent
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 6, 2013
AGENT ALERT: Anna Olswanger seeks picture books, MG, historical mysteries http://t.co/SHnZkbBCEK @writersdigest #WUAgent
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 7, 2013
Craft
(#WUCraft)
“5 Quick Fixes for a Story Gone Wrong” via @Writeitsideways http://t.co/LtpYoBHzgB #WUCraft
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 19, 2013
“How a Scene List Can Change Your Novel-Writing Life” via @write_practice @monicamclark http://t.co/auD1Mvv8P1 #WUCraft
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 1, 2013
“5 Key Ways to Choose the Right Word (Without a Thesaurus!)” via @KMWeiland http://t.co/E6X5KRlQzJ #WUCraft
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 11, 2013
Inspiration
(#WUInspire)
"Projectile Vomit, the X-Factor and Writing" @GrubWriters http://t.co/445qr5FBRp #WUInspire
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 22, 2013
“Fatherly Inspiration" via @VaughnRoycroft http://t.co/jvm9g8a5ID #WUInspire
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 8, 2013
What Happens When Your Agent Doesn't Love Your Newest Book @writersdiges http://t.co/queD9y0CZg #WUPrint #WUInspire
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 4, 2013
Digital
(#WUDigital)
"Booksellers Can Sell Kindles Under New Amazon Program" via @PublishersWkly #WUDigital http://t.co/jW8Nf6OjQd
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 6, 2013
"E-books 'too pricey for 16-24 market'" @thebookseller http://t.co/Viq8jsfACW #WUPrint #WUDigital
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 20, 2013
"Amazon Crushing Competition in U.S." via @digibooks http://t.co/DRzFfTGxDI #WUPrint #WUDigital
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 15, 2013
Social Media
(#WUSocMed)
"5 Things Mom Taught You About Social Media Management" via @B2community #WUSocMed http://t.co/KjUL7tFG6I
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 22, 2013
Have a great book cover? "How to Sell on Facebook Using Images" via @smexaminer #WUPromo #WUSocMed http://t.co/N7o6qGxhFG
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 14, 2013
Promotion
(#WUPromo)
"When a Writer Becomes a Target" via @rachellegardner http://t.co/ev0juxxnDq #WUPrint #WUPromo
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 22, 2013
"12 Mistakes Authors Make in Connecting with Readers" via @RachelleGardner #WUPromo http://t.co/PfXicoIHfV
— Writer Unboxed (@WriterUnboxed) November 20, 2013
Do you have great links you’d like to share? Post them in the comments and the best will be featured this month with your handle in the #WU Tweet stream!
Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction. As a freelance editor and an adjunct in a MFA in Creative Writing program, Heather has helped many writers sign with agents and go on to sell at market. When not writing, she feeds her cookbook addiction, geeks out on history and pop culture, and looks for excuses to head to the other side of the world. To date, her books have been translated to seventeen languages.
Always love these roundups, Heather! What a wealth of clicks each month. But what a pleasant and humbling delight to find one to me as I clicked my way through. I’m honored. Thank you so much! Keep up the good work.
It was a wonderful post, Vaughn, and a much deserved shout out!
thank you for the time it surely must take to do this, Heather! Much appreciated and enjoyed and studied and etc!
Thank you, Kathryn. Very kind of you to say so! I’m glad the links are useful to you.
Well Heather, you know I’m a Twitter addict (or should that be obsessive tweeter?) so I am very thankful for this post every month, and if I ever come up for air, I will retweet all of these because I couldn’t live without WU. PS it was wonderful meeting you at the conference in September. Best of luck with your debut coming up fast. #WOW
It IS fast, isn’t it? The holidays are going to make it fly! It was great meeting you, too, over that glass of wine. :)
Oops, tweeter wonder forgot to add her Twitter handle. LOL
Great job, Heather! <3
Thanks, Denise!
Thanks for a great post, Heather. Here’s a link to my blogpost on short story writing https://ruchivasudeva.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/seven-tips-for-writing-a-short-story/
Fabulous, Ruchi. I will check it out!
Heather: Hope it’s not a problem that I submitted two links for consideration. :)
https://storyrally.com/enjoy-marketing/
https://storyrally.com/marketing-included/
Not at all! That’s great. Thanks, Jason.