Grow Your Twitter Tribe with Targeted Hashtags

A couple of years ago, I wrote a two-part series on hashtags authors could use to mingle with other writers on Twitter, find readers, and grow your Twitter tribe. Let’s look at that list and had several more to it.

But first let me explain a method you can use to find readers. In one word that method is hashtags. I would use the following hashtags for that purpose:

#BookWorm

#GreatReads

#MustRead

#Novel

#WhatToRead

#Bibliophile

#Reader

To attract readers to your tweets, add one of these:

#Kindle

#eBook

#KindleBargain

#Kobo

#Nook

#FreebieFriday

#BookGiveaway

#Giveaway

#Free

Use genre-related hashtags, such as #mystery, #thriller, #memoir, #nonfiction, #fiction, #YA, #NewAdult, #shortstory, #poetry, #crime, #DarkFantasy, #dystopian, #erotica, #romance, #HistFic

To network with other authors and those in the publishing industry you might want to use some of these:

#1LineWednesday

#AskEditor

#IAN (Independent Author Network)

#IndiePub

#PromoTip

#Publishing

#SelfPublishing

#WriteTip

#WritingTip

#1K1H (write one thousand words in one hour)

#AmWriting

#AmEditing

#AmRevising

#EditGoal

#IndieAuthor

#NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month is held every November)

#RomanceWriter

#ScriptChat

#WordCount

#WriteChat

#WriteGoal

#WriteMotivation

#WritersLIfe

#WriterWednesday

#Writing

#WritingBlitz

#WritingPrompt

#WritersBlock

Use #WW (#Writers #Wednesday) to acknowledge your Tweeps who write.

#KPD (Kindle Publishing Direct)

#SmashWords

To share book marketing advice, try these:

#BookMarket

#BookMarketing

#GetPublished

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