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Monday
Jan142013

Book Marketing: CONFESSIONS OF A TWITTERPHOBE

Since today is the 14th, I'm writing at Smack Dab In The Middle, a middle grade authors' blog that I recently joined. Our January theme is book marketing, and the topic I chose is Twitter. Here is an excerpt from my post: 

"I put up every barrier I could think of. Some of my best arguments: What good would Twitter do me? I'm an author with no books out yet. Who would follow me, who would I possibly follow? Wasn't it a social network that would steal my time? What would I tweet? What about privacy? I stopped short of whimpering; “but I don’t want to,” although I did think it. Emotionally, this felt like the eve of my first day of junior high – I was petrified..."

I welcome you to read the rest of the story at SMACK DAB BLOG

  

01/14/2013