My list of the top nine authors and sites to follow to further your career
for aspiring and emerging authors
Are you an aspiring or emerging author? Here are you my top tips for newsletters to subscribe to, Twitter profiles to follow and Facebook pages to like. I hope that these help you find your way to publication and growing your author brand.
Newsletters:
Natasha Lester – Natasha is a successful Australian author who is also a writing teacher. Her newsletters are always packed with great writing tips and she points you in the direction of many useful resources. Her easy to follow posts always have a step by step process to them. Natasha is my number one writing mentor.
http://www.natashalester.com.au/
Jenn J McLeod – Jenn is another successful Aussie author and in her newsletters she shares wonderful insights into the publishing world and how to successfully become published using her own experiences as an example. Jenn is also a wonderful writing mentor for me.
http://www.jennjmcleod.com/
Alexandra Franzen – Alexandra is a published American author and artist who works with writers on manuscript development and publishing projects. My lovely author friend Jennifer Ammoscato recommended Alexandra to me and I have loved following her since. Her newsletters have fabulous writing and publishing tips and are also inspirational and motivational in all aspects of life, not just writing.
http://www.alexandrafranzen.com/
Twitter:
Margaret Atwood - This author knows how to tweet! With over a million followers, she’s a perfect example of how to be successful on Twitter. Margaret combines latest news from the writing industry, with her own promotional material, she promotes others with retweets and joins in lots of conversations. Follow her to see how it’s done if you want to be more successful on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood
Marian Keyes – She doesn’t share many writing tips at all, but Lord is she funny and she’s my favourite person to follow! Her followers adore her and she keeps the banter going all the time. So follow her for a daily laugh on your Twitter feed, to join in the fun and also as an example of how to effectively engage your readers with funny personable tweets.
https://twitter.com/MarianKeyes
Daily Writing Tips - I love the quick and useful grammar lesson in my feed every day from this clever little site. Very handy for any writer regardless of genre.
https://twitter.com/writing_tips
Facebook:
Rachelle Gardner, literary agent - Rachelle is a US based literary agent and she regularly posts really great articles all about how to pitch, how to get a literary agent, and how to get published. Her writing is easy and straight forward and she gives excellent advice for those looking for representation by an agent.
https://www.facebook.com/agent.rachelle/?fref=ts
Humans of New York – I’ve been following this page for a few years now and its photos and stories are just the thing to inspire and prompt writing ideas. It’s real people from New York and around the world who are all photographed by the same man, the incredible Brandon, who seems to have a gift for capturing the very essence of people in a single photo, and somehow convinces them to share their innermost hopes, dreams and fears with all of us. I’ve been inspired to write characters based on these people and because there are new extraordinary ordinary people every day to inspire you in life not just in writing, I think this one is a must.
https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/?fref=ts
The Writer’s Circle – what I love the most about this page is their lists! You can find a list for just about anything here. Whether you want fifty ways to say “said” or fifty ways to show anger with body language, it’s all here. Great tool for deep editing where you want perfect sentences and richer writing.
https://www.facebook.com/writerscircle/?fref=ts
Newsletters:
Natasha Lester – Natasha is a successful Australian author who is also a writing teacher. Her newsletters are always packed with great writing tips and she points you in the direction of many useful resources. Her easy to follow posts always have a step by step process to them. Natasha is my number one writing mentor.
http://www.natashalester.com.au/
Jenn J McLeod – Jenn is another successful Aussie author and in her newsletters she shares wonderful insights into the publishing world and how to successfully become published using her own experiences as an example. Jenn is also a wonderful writing mentor for me.
http://www.jennjmcleod.com/
Alexandra Franzen – Alexandra is a published American author and artist who works with writers on manuscript development and publishing projects. My lovely author friend Jennifer Ammoscato recommended Alexandra to me and I have loved following her since. Her newsletters have fabulous writing and publishing tips and are also inspirational and motivational in all aspects of life, not just writing.
http://www.alexandrafranzen.com/
Twitter:
Margaret Atwood - This author knows how to tweet! With over a million followers, she’s a perfect example of how to be successful on Twitter. Margaret combines latest news from the writing industry, with her own promotional material, she promotes others with retweets and joins in lots of conversations. Follow her to see how it’s done if you want to be more successful on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood
Marian Keyes – She doesn’t share many writing tips at all, but Lord is she funny and she’s my favourite person to follow! Her followers adore her and she keeps the banter going all the time. So follow her for a daily laugh on your Twitter feed, to join in the fun and also as an example of how to effectively engage your readers with funny personable tweets.
https://twitter.com/MarianKeyes
Daily Writing Tips - I love the quick and useful grammar lesson in my feed every day from this clever little site. Very handy for any writer regardless of genre.
https://twitter.com/writing_tips
Facebook:
Rachelle Gardner, literary agent - Rachelle is a US based literary agent and she regularly posts really great articles all about how to pitch, how to get a literary agent, and how to get published. Her writing is easy and straight forward and she gives excellent advice for those looking for representation by an agent.
https://www.facebook.com/agent.rachelle/?fref=ts
Humans of New York – I’ve been following this page for a few years now and its photos and stories are just the thing to inspire and prompt writing ideas. It’s real people from New York and around the world who are all photographed by the same man, the incredible Brandon, who seems to have a gift for capturing the very essence of people in a single photo, and somehow convinces them to share their innermost hopes, dreams and fears with all of us. I’ve been inspired to write characters based on these people and because there are new extraordinary ordinary people every day to inspire you in life not just in writing, I think this one is a must.
https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/?fref=ts
The Writer’s Circle – what I love the most about this page is their lists! You can find a list for just about anything here. Whether you want fifty ways to say “said” or fifty ways to show anger with body language, it’s all here. Great tool for deep editing where you want perfect sentences and richer writing.
https://www.facebook.com/writerscircle/?fref=ts
