Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy discussion
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Twitter?
Follow Jacqueline Lichtenberg at http://twitter.com/JLichtenberg
I forgot to tweet that my January and February 2009 book review columns are now posted for free reading at http://www.simegen.com/reviews/reread...
Books to be reviewed are posted through July 2009.
Previous years go back to 1993. I read a lot of books. The column is for a magazine so it has a "slant" and my beat is SF, Fantasy, Magic and anything that pertains to a New Age view. I sneak in a lot of vampire romance and other paranormal romance and relationship stories.
If you are a fan of True Blood and Harris's novels you can follow Sookie, Bill, Eric and the gang for a story line on Twitter. Its a lot of fun.
Katdragon, that's pretty cool! Does it follow the book series or the tv series? If it's the TV series I think I'd rather skip it. My kids intercept my texts all the time and I'd rather not have to explain tripx rated tweets!! LOLThere's such a difference between the show and the books. What a sadness. :(
Lady Ozma wrote: "Katdragon, that's pretty cool! Does it follow the book series or the tv series? If it's the TV series I think I'd rather skip it. My kids intercept my texts all the time and I'd rather not have to..."It seems to be the TV series but doesn't get into any thing too much to worry about. It is sometime hard to follow but you can also read it on the blog
Jersiryu's posterous who is putting it all in a form that is easy to read. I like to watch twitter and some times when you start following you may get a message and they will follow you back.
That's interesting Katdragon!Daalmonette I finally got around to following you back. I'm really miserable with this plague I have... if I've missed anyone else that's followed me... let me know peeps!
Lady Ozma wrote: "That's interesting Katdragon!Daalmonette I finally got around to following you back. I'm really miserable with this plague I have... if I've missed anyone else that's followed me... let me know p..."
Hi on twitter I am dragongranny and I am now following daalmonette.
I'll follow you dragongranny...Yesterday I had a slew of messages hit my email about people following me. I was a little creeped out since other than twitter replies... my tweets were about my whole impending death by plague. Are there that many morbid people out there or is that some sick twisted bent of twitterspammers? I mean it was kinda creepy!!!
Made me think about that dude who faked his death on LJ for "ratings". Sheesh. Creepy!
Saw you followed... to return the favour! :)
Me too... :) I have friends who say I'm a tweetaholic! :)
I just joined twitter and I must confess I'm totally lost. What am I supposed to write about? And why would anyone want to follow what I write? And how to get followers? Maybe some tips from the twitter addicts will be good.
Anything!!! :) I post when I finish a book, read something I like, see something interesting, post a blog entry, post a cool photo, my location, whatever. :)The whole thing is "What am I doing right now?" Post that. What are you doing right this minute? You should tweet: I am reading a thread about twitter on goodreads!
See, that wasn't so hard! :) Get tweeting! It's so fun!
I just scrolled through some of the Sookie and Eric twitter posts...and they're doing crazy things over there! I guess for April 1st, they decided to have a back and forth where Eric TURNS Sookie! But funny enough, they didn't follow it up with any "ha ha April Fool's" statement. Bizarre. And whoever is twittering as Pam wants to get into Bill's pants.
Okay, I'm done rambling now!
I've been assigned by my job to learn about Twitter, so I'm looking for interesting things to follow. Anyone know of famous PNR authors on Twitter? I tried a couple favorites and came up with nada. I looked for the Bill and Sookie one and found TrueBloodnet - is that it? I'm having trouble imagining how Twitter could be all that useful to my company, but social networking is the big deal in marketing now, so now I get to waste some time on the clock. I really don't care about the "ate a bagel" posts. Has anyone found a good feed for book recommendations, song recommendations, or something particularly interesting?
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jeaniene Frost, Neil Gaiman....they're all on.go to:
www.wefollow.com
to search for people!
Jeaniene...also check out who an author/celeb follows. I found John Cleese that way when I was reading Stephen Frye's page.http://api.twitter.com/Jeaniene_Frost
Sherrilyn:
http://twitter.com/sherrilynkenyon
Advice:
http://www.romancingtheblog.com/blog/...
Good example of marketing:
http://twitter.com/BNBookClubs
I've been assigned by my job to learn about Twitter, so I'm looking for interesting things to follow. ,,, I'm having trouble imagining how Twitter could be all that useful to my company ... Anita -- If you're trying to learn how to use Twitter for marketing, you should follow some of the folks who use it effectively for such things. Check these:
garyvee (a wine seller/blogger who just got a 10 book contract with Harperstudio because of his Twitter posts)
MalleVallick (Harlequin's own)
guykawasaki (venture capitalist, former Apple Exec, founder of AllTop, problogger)
neilhimself (Neil Gaiman, the author)
Once you're on those, you'll gradually find other interesting people. Just watch their streams and poke around in their followers.
Lisa wrote: "I've been assigned by my job to learn about Twitter, so I'm looking for interesting things to follow. ,,, I'm having trouble imagining how Twitter could be all that useful to my company ... Anita..."
Lisa, I've been tasked with the same challenge--how to bring social media on board and make it useful. We should talk because I can't figure it out either!
I've seen many authors use it to their benefit. Some are using it to tweet the first chapter of their book, 140 characters at a time. Others use it so that fans can follow their progress. I've seen tweet a thons for book debuts. I've even seen people who have battles between their main characters and themselves on twitter. :)There's a lot of different ways to use twitter. :)
And don't forget those who use it for contests to generate interest, similar to what GoodReads did with the status updates story contest a couple of months back. Links to new blog posts could be refashioned as links to new product announcements.
Sales could also be announced this way.
And if you were holding an event, you could use twitter to keep prospective attendees up to date by announcing new speakers or workshops you've added to the program.
But twitter followers can be fickle. Like anything else, you need to have it be more than just an advertisement. We follow authors because they not only tell us when their book will be released or when they're coming to town for a signing. They often post links to interesting news items or other authors they support.
But all this working positively for your business necessitates a media-savy clientele/target audience. And of course, a link to your twitter stream on your homepage and in your e-mail blasts.
I'll come up with more if you tell me what your businesses' primary purposes are.
You are right. Some of the authors I follow because they just have stinking interesting tweetstreams. Check out @teemonster and @jchutchins sometime. :) Hutch is the one who had twittergeddon and had his evil mastermind character and himself. HEHEHE Super fun!
Yes rachel vincent will be posting a teaser for the next book in her werecats series (Prey) tonight and she annouced that there will be six books Shift and Alpha will follow Prey(book4) to follow rachel click herehttp://twitter.com/rachelkvincent
you can also follow these authorshttp://twitter.com/JocelynnDrake
http://twitter.com/melissa_marr
http://twitter.com/terryandrob
http://twitter.com/megcabot
http://twitter.com/YasmineGalenorn
http://twitter.com/KelleyArmstrong
http://twitter.com/hollyblack
http://twitter.com/ilona_andrews
http://twitter.com/NaliniSingh
http://twitter.com/meljean
http://twitter.com/DeidreKnight
http://twitter.com/jaciburton
http://twitter.com/laurendane
http://twitter.com/JackieKessler
http://twitter.com/Rachelcaine
ok for fans of Kelley Armstrongs YA series shes giving away a signed copy of The Awakening over on Twitter
Hi all. I'm on twitter too. :) welcome all followers. I grabbed those of you who listed your id's here. :)http://twitter.com/TeresaDamario
Hey Teresa!! I didn't know you were here. You always hide the good groups from me. LOLI am on Twitter
http://twitter.com/BittenbyBooks
LOL Hey Rachel. Yeah, someone told me yesterday I was "everywhere". LOL. Yep, when I get a little extra time I wander in this way. :) I read everything, but don't always post, due to work load, etc.
Jael wrote: "you can also follow these authorshttp://twitter.com/JocelynnDrake
http://twitter.com/meli..."
You are a veritable FONT of information.
I just read this on Sherrilyn Kenyon's Twitter:“I really should break you in two. It might not brighten your day, but it would definitely make mine.” doing edits. I really LOVE Fury LOL"
Sounds like Fury alright.
The Discriminating Fangirl wrote: "Does anyone else use Twitter?For those who are wondering what on earth I'm talking about, http://www.twitter.com is a service that allows you to microblog or post status updates in 140 characte..."
At first I couldn't figure out what was the attraction to twitter and then I learned how to reply-
it's kind like instant messaging- it's cool.
For those who are wondering what on earth I'm talking about, http://www.twitter.com is a service that allows you to microblog or post status updates in 140 characters or less. You can friend people and reply to other tweets. It's a lot of fun, and I've gotten pathetically addicted to it.
I'm tdfangirl over there: http://twitter.com/tdfangirl
Anyone else use it?