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
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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I’ve been so busy I really do appreciate these roundups you post. Thanks again.
Good to know people still enjoy them! Provides motivation to continue.
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. 🙂
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.)
[…] Porter has been well-known to me since 2010 as one of the most dedicated Twitter feeders of great online articles for writers. When he began introducing me to fabulous stuff I had never seen, I knew he deserved a dedicated column. So here he is! (For those paying attention, this feature takes the place of my old series, Best Tweets for Writers.) […]