Please join our ACFW-DFW event Saturday, February 13, 2021 from10:30 am-noon, “Instagram & Twitter for Authors” with Lori Z. Scott and Paula Peckham.
The first half of the presentation will explore the use of Instagram for authors, showing ways we can use the app to promote our platform. Presenters will include a description of Instagram and walk us through the steps to create an account. We will learn how to add followers, use hashtags, and engage our audience.
The second half of the workshop will explore Twitter as the presenters Introduce the app for new users and explain vocabulary. The presentation will Include tips on how to use Twitter for author promotion, and how to keep ourselves in front of our readers.
Presenters: Elementary school teacher Lori Z. Scott usually writes fiction because, like an atom, she makes up everything. Her downtime is filled with two quirky habits: chronic doodling and inventing lames jokes. Neither one impresses her principal (or friends/parents/casual strangers), but they do help inspire her writing. Somehow, her odd musings led her to accidentally write a ten-title bestselling chapter book series and on purpose write over 150 short stories, articles, essays, poems, and devotions. In addition, Lori contributed to over a dozen books, mostly so she would have an excuse to give people for not folding her laundry. (Hey! Busy writing here!) She has served as a speaker or workshop leader at several conferences and has visited local elementary schools to share her writing journey. Most days, she’s fully immersed in teaching, but most nights you can find her behind the keyboard. Since Batman didn’t want a sidekick, she teamed up with super-agent Cyle Young at the C.Y.L.E. Literary Agency.
https://www.instagram.com/lori.z.scott/
https://twitter.com/lori_z_scott?lang=en|
https://lori-z-scott.com/
Paula Peckham is a retired high school math teacher. She splits her time between her beloved Texas and Rio Bravo, Mexico, where she serves in a ministry through her church. She lives in Burleson, a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas. A 5th-generation Texan, she imbues her stories with Texas pride. She has a poem published in the inaugural edition of Awake our Hearts, an online magazine. Women of Spirit, a Christian magazine, also published an article she wrote. She was a semi-finalist in the 2020 ACFW Genesis contest. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers http://www.acfw.com/ and the local chapter, ACFW – DFW, where she serves as treasurer.
https://twitter.com/PaulaPeckham
https://www.instagram.com/paulajopeckham/
www.paulapeckham.com
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