10 Writers, Editors, Agents, and Interesting Parties to Follow on Twitter
Filed Under: SF Business, Speculative Fiction
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:
- @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.
- @ColleenLindsay is the agent behind the recent, controversial #queryfail. Colleen is full of advice for writers. She speaks truth to nerds.
- @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.
- @Charlesatan retweets the hell out of writing and publishing related links. The man is a machine, well worth a follow.
- @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.
- @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.
- @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.
- @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.
- @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.
- @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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05-14-2009
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