Good Evening everyone! Engagement with our readers and the writing industry is one of the most important pieces in marketing your book and your brand. One aspect of engagement that is a big influence is using hashtags in your social media posts. There are a few things that hashtags can be used to accomplish:
- Identifying a brand
- Recommending a product
- Connecting with like-minded people
- Finding experts
I set out and researched what hashtags I should be using in different situations, and realized that it turned into a HUGE LIST – over 100 hashtags! So I thought it could be helpful to others out there to share my list with you. I’m going to break it down in categories so it makes more sense when to use each hashtag.
Connecting with other Authors:
- #1K1H (write 1,000 words in one hour)
- #AmEditing
- #AmRevising
- #AmWriting
- #AskAgent
- #AskEditor
- #BookMarket (Thursdays at 4pm EST)
- #BookMarketing
- #Copywriting
- #Creativity
- #EditGoal
- #Editing
- #GetPublished
- #1AN1 (Independent Authors Network)
- #NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writers Month in November)
- #PBLitChat (picture books only)
- #PromoTip
- #Publishing
- #PubTip
- #RomanceWriter
- #ScriptChat (screenwriters)
- #StoryStarter
- #WANA (We Are Not Alone community)
- #WIP (work in progress)
- #WordAThon
- #WordCount
- #WriteChat
- #WriteGoal
- #WriteMotivation
- #WritersBlock
- #WritersLife
- #WriterWednesday (or #WW)
- #WriteTip
- #Writing
- #WritingBlitz
- #WritingParty
- #WritingPrompt
- #WritingTip
- #WroteToday
Connect by Book Genre:
- #140Poems
- #ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers)
- #Biopic
- #Comedy
- #Crime
- #DarkFantasy
- #Dystiopian
- #FaithLitChat
- #FanFic
- #Fantasy
- #FlashFic
- #HistFic
- #Historical
- #History
- #Horror
- #KidLitChat
- #LitChat (every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
- #Literature
- #LitFic
- #MemoirChat (every other Wednesday at 8pm EST)
- #MGLit (Middle Grade Lit)
- #Mystery
- #NonFiction
- #Paranormal
- #Poetry
- #PoetryMonty (Each April in the US)
- #PoetTues
- #Romance
- #RomanceWriter
- #Romantic
- #RomanticSuspense
- #RWA (Romance Writers of America)
- #SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators)
- #ScienceFiction
- #SciFi
- #SciFiChat
- #ShortStory
- #SteamPunk
- #Suspense
- #TrueStories
- #UrbanFantasy
- #WomensFiction
- #YA
- #YALit
- #YALitChat
- #ZineChat
Connect with Readers:
- #amreading
- #bestread
- #BookGiveaway
- #bookreview
- #Books
- #BookWorm
- #ebooks
- #fiction
- #FridayReads
- #GoodReads
- #greatbooks
- #GreatReads
- #MustRead
- #Novel
- #Paperback
- #read
- #reader
- #readers
- #reading
- #reviews
- #share
- #StoryFriday
- #Storytelling
- #TeaserTues
- #weekendreader
- #WhatToRead
Promotion and Marketing:
- #99c (to offer or pick up an eBook bargain)
- #AuthorRT
- #BookGiveaway
- #BookMarketing
- #FollowFriday
- #FreebieFriday
- #FreeBook
- #FreeDownload
- #FreeReads
- #FridayReads
- #GetPublished
- #KindleBargain
- #Novelines (to quote your own work)
- #TeaserTues
- #WebFic
Indie Publishing and eBooks:
- #Amazon
- #AmazonKindle
- #Amazonlikes
- #AmazonPrime
- #BookBuzzr
- #borrow
- #EBooks
- #ePubchat
- #eReaders
- #ipad
- #indie
- #IndiePub (or #IndiePublishing)
- #IndieThursday
- #KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing)
- #KDPselect
- #Kindle
- #KindleBooks
- #KindleFire
- #KindleTouch
- #kindletweet
- #Kobo
- #lendinglibrary
- #Nook
- #Pubit
- #Publishing
- #SelfPub
- #SelfPublishing
- #Smashwords
- #Sony
- #Webfic
I imagine this is still only a smattering of hashtags that are popular in the writing community, and don’t forget that you can always create your own unique hashtags (like #breakingwritersblock), but I hope this inspires you to start using some new hashtags in your social media posts for better engagement and marketing! Happy writing!!
Thanks for the info!!!