A few months ago, I suggested the idea of giving your main character their own email account:

https://paulpens.cloudaccess.host/?s=Protagonist+email+account

Recently, I’ve been exploring Twitter, seeking out Colony members and Crime genre authors and literary agents who like crime novels. I intended to use this personal account to make contacts and to promote myself and my Cornish Detective series in a non-pushy way.

My Twitter presence morphed from a Facebook Author page called Paul Pens, which is based on threads I started on The Colony. Last autumn, I started a Facebook business page devoted to my Cornish Detective series. Why not give my fictional hero a Twitter account too?

I searched for advice online, finding this dated article:

https://www.authormedia.com/lead-character-twitter-account/

Apparently, Twitter verifies the accounts of fictional characters, though this article is from 2012:

https://www.themarysue.com/twitter-verifies-fictional-character/

There are a lot of Marvel and DC superheroes and fictional heroes tweeting away, as are Homer J. Simpson, Charlie Brown and Lord Voldermort, so I may join in with Detective Chief Inspector Neil Kettle.

Have any of you given your MC a Twitter account?

Do you follow any fictional characters