The Best Tweeting Literary Agents

I follow 156 literary agents.  I wanted to write a blog with the averages of what days and how many times on those days literary agents tweeted.  I came up with the idea because Literary agents are, honestly, not the best tweeters in the world.  Though, out of the 156 agents I follow, there are 21 who are excellent Tweeters.  I set out to graph the averages of what days, and how many times on those days they tweeted.  Some of those agents tweet into the triple digits on some days.  You might think that’s overkill, but those agents who tweet that much in one day do so for good reasons.

While I concluded going through perhaps tens of thousands of tweets was not worth the time it would take to chart such a graph, I did notice some important hashtags those agents use to hold Twitversations with their followers. Here’s a list of those literary hashtags you should follow if you want to learn about the publishing business:

#yalitchat –   A weekly Wednesday chat for readers and writers of Young Adult literature (9-10 pm EST or 6-7 pm PST).

#kidlitchat – A weekly chat about all things children’s literature, from board books to YA. Currently Wednesday’s at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific

#askagent – [There’s no description for this, but I think the name says it all]

#pubtip – [There’s no description for this, and no it's not about the best Irish Pubs in Boston's Southie]

#writechat – A weekly conversation on Twitter for writers. The discussion takes place on Sundays from 12-3pm PST, 7-10pm GMT; moderated by @WritingSpirit

For those on a hunt for an agent who is social media savvy, follow these Tweeters:

Kid_Lit RebeccaAgent bradfordlit MandyHubbard sztownsend81

johnnygeller BostonBookGirl jennybent RachelleGardner BookEndsJessica literaticat WolfsonLiterary

BookEndsKim caroleagent KathyBuckworth DanielLiterary

DaphneUn hroot kate_mckean LucienneDiver ElenaRoth

Stay social my friends,

Erick