Rayne Hall

You may have met Rayne Hall on Twitter, her preferred medium. She has literally written the book on the best ways to use Twitter – it’s called “Twitter for Writers” and is part of her celebrated Writer’s Craft series.

I met her almost a year ago, when I first started using Twitter. After tweeting with her for a couple of months and pestering her for advice and help – which she was always happy to provide – I began to grasp the most basic tenant of her philosophy, and what’s possibly a one-line summary of her book: “just be real.” Readers of this blog have read many of my posts urging you to stop promoting and start engaging, so it is only fitting that you now find out where this advice originally came from.

But Rayne has done much more for me. Her book “The…