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Jon Reed 7th January 2011 Friday Project, Neil Gaiman, Sarah Salway, Something Beginning With, Twitter, William Gibson

How Twitter propelled a republished book up the Kindle charts

Amazing things can happen on Twitter if you catch the eye of an ‘influencer’ or two.
Sarah Salway’s Something Beginning With was first published in 2004. Although it had a blog, this was in the days before Twitter, Facebook, and the huge word of mouth possible to achieve with them.
In November 2010 it was republished by the Friday Project. Within a week, it went from nowhere to the top 250 in the Kindle charts. How did this happen?

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Anna Lewis 10th March 2010 author, award, Blogging, blogs, Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, London Book Fair, London Book Tweet, Neil Gaiman, Seth Godin, tweetup

Nominations open for the Author Blog Awards 2010

The Author Blog Awards aim to highlight to readers the great content that you can find in author blogs and microblogs, reward those authors who engage with their readers online, and encourage other authors to do the same. Nominations are now open so please head over to www.authorblogawards.com to nominate your favourite author blog.