My blog has been a little quiet these past weeks, as I've been catching up on some writing. I have seen a few independent writers recently close down their blogging activities on the grounds that they wanted to spend more time with their work-in-progress novels. Writers write, right? Well, yes, but... The demands of the …
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Twitterback
In a recent post I considered the social network etiquette - the "netiquette" - of Following-back, particularly in Twitter. I've now reached that wonderful "critical point" where my Following grows daily without any "marketing effort". I do know that this is due to the weight of numbers already Following me, rather than a sudden, global appreciation …
FollowBack Mountain?
"Build a platform", they all said, to become famous and influential before you publish your first novel. Market something that does not exist? We used to call it "vapourware", now it's "work-in-progress". But I followed conventional wisdom... I joined a dozen or more platforms, forums and exchanges. I participated in campaigns to encourage Followers and at …
136 days – how was it for you?
Here we are, day 136 of 2013 (that's 37% of the year gone). And how is everyone getting along? So far, it's been a good year for me, creatively... TWO Liebster awards runner-up in a LinkedIn microfiction contest (on a writers' vote) my short story, "Conservation", accepted for publication spent a few, happy weeks on a movie …
Want To Max Your Tweets?
Thanks to Stuart Carruthers for distributing this guide, read more at http://www.writeimagination.co.uk/ (Click on the rather huge image below to enlarge) What is your tweet-maxing strategy and how effective is it?
Andy McKell, Speculative Fiction Author 
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