{"id":6045,"date":"2017-03-24T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2020-07-20T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:21:22","slug":"five-australian-author-instagram-accounts-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2017\/03\/five-australian-author-instagram-accounts-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Australian author Instagram accounts I love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5Let’s talk about Instagram for authors. If you follow this blog or my podcast with any regularity, you’ll know that I was a late-adopter of Instagram. I tried it a few years ago, couldn’t get my head around it and put it aside.<\/p>\n

But then, about 12 months ago, with Procrastipup in tow, I picked it up again and… I’m hooked. (You’ll find me at @allisontaitwriter<\/a>, come and say hello!)<\/p>\n

I mostly post pics of my dog, my garden, my books, my beautiful local area, and the various other bits and pieces that make up my authorly life, but I do love scrolling through the feeds of other authors as well.<\/p>\n

For me, the best author accounts are a mix of things they love, things they’re doing, things they’re reading – just little snippets of their daily existence, all wrapped up in a consistent ‘feel’ (Instagram tips would tell you that using just one or two filters helps to give this, but I would also argue that figuring out just four or five ‘topics’ for the photos within your feed also helps).<\/p>\n

I follow a lot of Australian authors, all of whom are doing a great job, but these five particularly stand out:<\/p>\n

Tristan Bancks<\/a><\/p>\n

Tristan writes the ‘My Life’ series of books (new book My Life And Other Weaponised Muffins<\/a> out now) and I think you could pretty much call his Instagram feed by the same name. It’s all books\/cartoons\/Tristan\/life\/school visits all the time.\u00a0There’s a clear visual message throughout Tristan’s feed, but also a real sense of fun that I’m sure kids love as much as I do. (Kid review of My Life and Other Massive Mistakes<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Wendy Orr<\/a><\/p>\n

Wendy is relatively new to Instagram, but she does a terrific job of interspersing her new books\u00a0(including Dragonfly Song<\/a>) with posts about her classics like Nim’s Island<\/em>. She is also SUPER supportive of other authors, and very engaged in the Australian writing community on Instagram. (Podcast interview with Wendy.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Favel Parrett<\/a><\/p>\n

I follow Favel, author of Past\u00a0The Shallows<\/a> and When The Night Comes<\/a>, because she takes gorgeous\u00a0photographs, often of the area in which she lives, complete\u00a0with surfboards and birds. Her writing is deceptively simple and beautiful and I think the mood evoked by her Instagram shots is the same. (Podcast interview with Favel<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Mick Elliott<\/a><\/p>\n

Mick is the author of the zany middle-grade series The Turners (<\/em>Book 3 ‘Fully Doomed’<\/a> out 26 April), who also works as a producer at Nickelodeon – and you can see that experience in his Instagram feed, which is one of the most creative and consistent of any author I know. Mick posts about his books every day, but in such an inventive way that the message remains fresh. Seriously – go look! (Kid review of The Turners (#1)\u00a0<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Maggie Mackellar<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re looking for images of a dream author’s life, this is the one for you. Maggie, author of the memoirs When It Rains<\/a> and How To Get There<\/a>, lives on a farm in Tasmania, surrounded by breathtaking scenery, horses and puppies. A little breath of fresh air in every day.<\/p>\n

Which Australian authors do you love to follow on Instagram?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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