Social Media

If you're a writer, what social media do you use? The chances are that, beside your website, you also have a blog, maybe a Facebook page and possibly use Twitter. How do you find time to juggle the social networking with everything else and still find time to write? Is it essential for a writer to have an interactive online presence? Which is your favourite and why?

I've recently set up a new Facebook Like page. I love chatting with readers online and hope this could be a way of connecting. I also have a Twitter account but to be honest I'm not too sure what I'm doing over there, which is why I often appear to fall of the edge of the twitterverse.

What medium do readers most like as a way of connecting to authors? Is it important to have that interaction and if so do you prefer if the author uses a blog, FB, Twitter or some other media? Or does it not matter to you?

Seductive Musings has a great post about the different social medias from a reader's perspective, and makes the point that for many readers it's the author's website that is the first and most important port of call when looking for up to date info. The post is long but is well worth reading and certainly gave me a lot to think about.

What are your thoughts?

Congrats Suz! Social Networking & Twitter

I want to give a big shout out to my lovely friend, Suzanne Brandyn, who has recently sold her contemporary romance, Heat in the Outback to Eternal Press! Congratulations, Suz!

And now for Twitter! I do enjoy my Tweets, lovely little bite size snippets of info and gossip. The other day I followed a link and discovered this brilliant blog post over at Jessica Scott's about Social Networking Pt 2 - for Twitter. I found it really interesting and helpful. One thing about Twitter is it can be very time-consuming, and this is just another reason why I love, love love my iPhone I got for Christmas! I can read my tweets while in the kitchen or wandering about the house rather than having to sit at the computer.

And finally, Laura Anne Gilman gives a paragraph by paragraph breakdown of Amazon's response to MacMilian - well worth reading I reckon and guess what -I found the link on Twitter!!!

I am an Official Tweeter!

Thank you to everyone who popped over and left Shelley a comment over the weekend! I'll be doing the draw later today and will post it up probably first thing Tuesday morning (down under time)

Well I finally succumbed to the dark side and joined Twitter. I still haven't worked out how to respond to people who reply to my tweets (does anyone know?) So I'm not ignoring you, I just can't figure out how to reply!!! Hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon!