Twitter Tips To Help Get Authors' Books Published

Litopia Writers' Colony Wins The First Golden Twits Award For Excellence In Social Media - Twitter Can Help Authors Get Published, They Say Publishing is a battleground… it is basic that authors ascendancy acceptance to their readers & Twitter can help

London, UK -- The oldest amusing association on the net for writers, Litopia Writers' Colony, has won the newest cost for the web's latest average - the 140-character microblogging account Twitter. Sponsored by media annual The Drum, The Golden Twit accolade was acclimatized by Litopia's arch twitterer, Jamie Mollart, and Litopia's founder, Peter Cox, at a celebration in London endure night (see photo).

Jamie Mollart & Peter Cox from Litopia Writers Colony accepting the Golden Twit accolade from Rowan Heasley in London "Social media is about communication," said Jamie, "and as writers, advice is abundantly important to us. The Litopia Twitter augment is about administration advice that will advice writers, so to be accustomed for this is fantastic."

"The publishing apple is traveling through seismic about-face at the moment", said Peter, who is aswell a arcane abettor with Redhammer Management. "It is the endure above media industry to be hit by the agenda tsunami. Litopia educates writers about the agenda future. Twitter is a basic apparatus for them."

Peter believes that Twitter has abounding uses for writers. "You can bound body a huge afterward with Twitter", he says. "Publishing is a battlefield at the moment, and the better attempt is over who controls acceptance to the readership. Will it be publishers, as they commonly did? Or authors? Or some third affair such as Amazon or Google? We advise authors how basic it is to ascendancy acceptance their own readers and fans."

Litopia has rapidly complete a afterward of over 4000 writers on Twitter. "What we've done, any columnist can do", Peter says. "We Tweet about bisected a dozen times a day - humans adulation them because they're so useful."

But that's not the alone use for Twitter in the author's armory. "You can affix with the top humans in the publishing industry", says Peter - "they're just one bang away. You can accumulate up with cabal gossip. You can use it to acquisition experts for your research. You can actualize basic events, like a Twitter contest. But mostly, you can accouter Twitter's multiplier aftereffect to accelerate your fan base: if one clairvoyant reTweets your aboriginal post, you can bound ability hundred or even bags of new readers aural minutes. That's how able it can be."

Litopia Writers' Colony is a chargeless association to join. It produces the world's aboriginal circadian podcast for writers, Litopia Daily, and counts abounding bestselling authors amidst its membership.