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5 Tips for Using Hashtags Correctly

Hashtags are just keywords with a # or hash in front of them, and they are all the rage. Everyone is using hashtags. If you’re an author, hashtags are important because they help readers find you and your books. However, if you’re new to the world of hashtags it can be very confusing. To learn more about Hashtags don’t miss my articles, Do Authors Really Need Hashtags, and 5 Hashtags Every Author Should Use.
If you’re a writer, and heck even if you aren’t, you can use hashtags. Here are five tips for using hashtags:

1. Don’t overdo it. If you’ve ever seen those twitter posts that are almost entirely hashtags, you know what I mean when I say this. Don’t let the message you’re trying to convey through your Twitter post be drowned out by the number of hashtags at the end of the post. Two to three hashtags per post is perfect.

2. Be creative when using hashtags. What I mean by this is if one of the keywords you want to use as a hashtag is already in your post, by all means plop a hashtag in front of that word. This saves you character …

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How to Find the Perfect Graphic Designer for Your Book Jacket



Where to Start
Congrats! You’ve finished your collection of short stories, novel, novella, or any other manuscript musings! You’ve decided to self-publish since you’re just starting out and you know you don’t have the resources for a top-of-the-line graphic designer. So where do you go? What kind of skills are you looking for? Where do you find a great graphic designer at an affordable budget? Luckily, in today’s world there are tons of reputable websites with excellent freelancers who do superb work on time and on budget.

One of the first things you should consider as a writer is what kind of design you’re looking for. What does your book say with pixels? Many designers find it frustrating when their customer asks them to come up with several different designs and claim, “I’ll know it when I see it.” You want to work with your designer on an established idea. It takes quite a lot of time and effort for them to come up with various different ideas from your thousands-of-words book. Do yourself and them a favor and think up a general (or even better specific) idea of what you want before you contact a graphic designer.

Where to …

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5 Hashtags Every Author Should Use

If you’ve been reading this series of articles on hashtags, then you now know that a hashtag is just a keyword or set of key words with a # or hash in front of it. Even knowing this if you’re just starting out with hashtags you may feel overwhelmed by the number of well used hashtags. After all everyone and I do mean everyone is using them.
With this in mind, and since I myself was confused by hashtags and how to use them, I did a search to discover what I thought would be the five most useful hashtags for authors. Now does this mean you should only use these hashtags? No. I’m just saying that these five hashtags are ones that many, many authors use and are hashtags that will help to draw new readers to your books. These are not genre specific hashtags but rather hashtags that will help readers of all kinds to find your books. We’ll talk more about genre specific hashtags in another article.
So, that being said, here are five hashtags that every author should use:

1. #excerpt. Readers love excerpts, and excerpts are a great way to pull a reader in and …

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