Huffington Post book club<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nInstead of viewing Twitter book clubs as an opportunity to get your book selected for a discussion (they are probably very competitive), use them,\u00a0instead, as opportunities to gain insights into what readers do and don’t like about the work of others. Naturally, you’ll want to pay particular attention to\u00a0books in your genre.<\/p>\n
Do you participate in any Twitter pitch fests for authors and agents, or in Twitter book clubs? Have they been helpful? Please share links to them here.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you one of the many authors who have declared Twitter a colossal “waste of time?”<\/p>\n
Before you write it off, ask yourself if you’re using it to its full potential. It’s a resource for:<\/p>\n
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- Connecting when you use it to develop relationships with people you can learn from or who are in your book’s target audience<\/li>\n
- Getting the word out about your book when you use it properly (meaning, don’t constantly tweet “buy my book” messages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That should be enough, right? But Twitter is the social networking site that keeps on giving to authors in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[292,293],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tools","tag-agent-pitch-contests","tag-twitter-book-clubs"],"yoast_head":"\n
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