Social Media for Writers – Public or Private?

This week I’m over on the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild blog talking about how to juggle your personal and public profiles on social media. It talks about a time when I had the flu but, don’t worry, I wrote it a while ago and am not sick anymore (unless you want to count ‘sick with joy’ over my Ditmar win!!!)…

If you’re on Facebook to share photos and news with family and friends – what should you do when you get a friend request from a writer you hardly know, but whom you’d maybe like to get to know better? Do you befriend them, or if you don’t what might happen – will they hate you forever? Do you keep some space on the internet reserved for friends and family and, if so, what and how?

Do you simply keep your private life out of social media altogether? If so, how then will you stay true to yourself and ‘be real’ online? If you hold back, how will people connect with you?

Read the rest of that guest post over here.

Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud, reaching across age and genre into the heart of storytelling. A multi-award-winning author of speculative and contemporary fiction, she teaches writing at festivals, libraries and schools, judges various literary awards, mentors and edits other writers, and encourages everyone to value the importance of creativity. She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, and potatoes, though not at the same time!

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