Twitter is all the rage these days.  I resisted it for more than a year, not see­ing what pur­pose it had.  But then it achieved crit­i­cal mass in my com­mu­nity and I was on-board.  Now I can’t remem­ber what life was like before it.  Combine micro-blogging with tex­ting and instant mes­sag­ing and you kind of have an idea.  When you’re hooked in, it’s like hav­ing one big slow group con­ver­sa­tion, with side con­ver­sa­tions every­where.  It’s like being at a party and not hav­ing to choose which peo­ple to talk to and which con­ver­sa­tions to get involved with.  You get involved with all of them.

Here are ten peo­ple that I think you should be fol­low­ing if you’re inter­ested in the busi­ness of sci­ence fiction:

1. @PaulGrahamRaven is the edi­tor of Futurismic, a great site for SF fans and writ­ers.  He doesn’t han­dle the fic­tion selec­tion over there, but his twit­ter stream is often has inter­est­ing links and quips.
2. @ColleenLindsay is the agent behind the recent, con­tro­ver­sial #query­fail.  Colleen is full of advice for writ­ers.  She speaks truth to nerds.
3. @Pablod is the one-man-band behind Tor.com the cool online site run by the SF pub­lisher Tor.  Stories, arti­cles, blogs, with a side of social net­work­ing thrown in.  Pablo is a great source for tech-related infor­ma­tion that con­cerns the pub­lish­ing industry.
4. @Charlesatan retweets the hell out of writ­ing and pub­lish­ing related links.  The man is a machine, well worth a follow.
5. @Jay_Lake is the pro­lific author of nov­els such as Green and Mainspring is a good look in on how a work­ing writer bal­ances the rest of his life.  Jay has always been  a role model for me that it can be done.
6. @ArachneJericho is the queen of the Kindle.  With the Kindle and ebooks on the rise, she’s a great source of infor­ma­tion on the sub­ject.  She’s not exactly unbi­ased, but she tries to be, and that makes me respect her opin­ion on such mat­ters even more.
7. @MaryRobinette is a won­der­ful SF writer and pup­peteer. You’ll be hard-pressed to find tweets that are more sur­real, but grounded absolutely in reality.
8. @GordSellar is nom­i­nated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer this year, an award that @JayLake and @MaryRobinette have won in the past.  He’s my pick to win this year.  His writ­ing is hot stuff.  He is often full of really inter­est­ing insights on liv­ing abroad in South Korea as well.
9. @TobiasBuckell is the author of Crystal Rain and one of those  Halo nov­els (an obscure series of mil­i­tary sci­ence fic­tion nov­els about–oh, who am I kid­ding?  This book put Toby on the best sell­ing list!).  Tobias is a new par­ent of twins.   Ask him if he’s get­ting any sleep.  He loves that.
10. @JohnKlima is the edi­tor of the acclaimed pub­li­ca­tion, Electric Velocipede (which can use and is deserv­ing of your help, by the way.).

This list is most def­i­nitely not a com­pre­hen­sive one and I’m prob­a­bly leav­ing out peo­ple that I will hit myself over the head for later.  If you’re inter­ested in find­ing more, hit up my fol­low list over on Twitter.

Do you have sug­ges­tions for folks to fol­low?  Please let us know in the com­ments, even if it is your­self.  I’m always look­ing for more inter­est­ing peo­ple to add to my stream.  Twitter is rapidly becom­ing the place to talk with peo­ple in the busi­ness, and there’s always room for more in the conversation.

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