Happy New Year! Here’s a roundup of some top book marketing tweets from the past week, courtesy of bloggers, marketers, authors and others. The topics include creating shorter tweets, predicting publishing trends in 2014, adding an Amazon store to your Facebook Page, and more. Happy marketing!

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* The Base of the Writer’s Platform: Your Website

Having a website gives readers a place to find you and connect with you online:

http://nowastedink.com/2013/12/20/the-base-of-the-writers-platform-your-website/

* How to Add an Amazon Store to Your Facebook Page

If you’ve got a Facebook Page, why not make it easy for readers to buy your books?

http://self-publishingforbeginners.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/how-to-add-amazon-store-to-your.html

* Top 5 Publishing Predictions Posts for 2014

Will Barnes & Noble survive? How will book marketing change? Learn about those issues and more:

http://www.publishingtrends.com/2013/12/top-5-publishing-predictions-posts-2014/

* 6 Tips for Shorter Tweets [INFOGRAPHIC]

You’ve only got 140 characters. Here’s how to write effective, yet shorter, posts:

http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/6-tips-shorter-tweets_b53324

* 90 Tips to Make Your Blog Rock

If you need a little inspiration to kick things up in 2014, here are plenty of ideas:

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/12/02/90-tips-to-make-your-blog-rock/

7 Tips for Building a Social Media Audience

Get some useful tips on how to build and maintain an audience on social media:

http://mashable.com/2013/12/24/grow-social-audience/

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