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THE 9 BIGGEST MISTAKES TOO MANY AUTHORS MAKE ON TWITTER

By: Diana Urban

1. Constantly publish self-promotional tweets

If all of your tweets cycle between links to your Amazon page, your book giveaway, and reviews of your book, you’re probably wasting your time. This spammy behavior will turn away potential fans, since all you’re doing is pushing your own books instead of engaging with others.

Unfortunately, many authors still use Twitter purely to promote their books. But your tweets should give followers insight into your personality and foster a two-way conversation with fellow authors and potential readers.

1. When in doubt, stick to the 80/20 rule:

• 80 percent of your tweets should drive engagement with interesting, fun, educational, or otherwise helpful content.
• 20 percent of your tweets can be self-promotional. This includes links to your books, blog posts you’ve written, interviews you’re participating in, or retweets of others mentioning your books.

2. Auto-DM links to your books

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. Writing a Novel – The Outline And First Draft | The Mental Attic http://ow.ly/LAwNu  @KKutlesa
2. The 9 Biggest Mistakes Too Many Authors Make on Twitter http://ow.ly/LBaG1
3. Interview with Jane: Understanding the Business of Authorship | Jane Friedman http://ow.ly/LBbuY
4. Seriously Write: Real Life Makes ‘Real’ Stories By Marie Wells Coutu http://ow.ly/LBbB6
5. Full Life? Take a Class http://ow.ly/LBbOS
6. Anne R. Allen's Blog: Ten Reasons for Authors to Blog http://ow.ly/LBbXt
7. What Really Is Your Social Media ROI? http://ow.ly/LBckG
8. 10 (normal) struggles when writing a novel – BookBaby http://ow.ly/LBj4q
9. Author, Jody Hedlund: 5 Things Writers Do on Facebook That Make Me Automatically Unfollow Them http://ow.ly/LBjvr
10. How to turn a Complex Story into a Simple Synopsis | Drew Chial http://ow.ly/LBkUr
11. Adjusting to Expectations After Publishing Your First Novel - Elizabeth Spann Craig http://ow.ly/LBl45
12. The Wallpapering Method to Coping with Rejection Letters http://ow.ly/LBleh
13. Empowering the CORE of Your Story - Storyfix.com http://ow.ly/LBlrC
14. Picking Editors: What Kind Do We Need? | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author http://ow.ly/LBlD5
15. Book Titles That Sell, Productivity For Authors And Marketing For Introverts With Tim Grahl | The Creative Penn http://ow.ly/LBlSH
16. How Often Should Indie Authors Publish? http://ow.ly/LBm4O
17. Writing POV Changes | Linda S. Clare http://ow.ly/LBmpP
18. Writability: Vlog: Is Your Manuscript Query-Ready? http://ow.ly/LBmA4

Happy writing and running, Kathy