Perhaps I am coming a little late to the party, but this is news to me! There are some excellent discussion groups for up and coming authors. The site can also make recommendations based on your reviews and reading patterns. ENJOY!
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Bibliophiles Take Note!
I've been introduced to an excellent resource for all you book lovers at GOODREADS.COM.
Perhaps I am coming a little late to the party, but this is news to me! There are some excellent discussion groups for up and coming authors. The site can also make recommendations based on your reviews and reading patterns. ENJOY!
Perhaps I am coming a little late to the party, but this is news to me! There are some excellent discussion groups for up and coming authors. The site can also make recommendations based on your reviews and reading patterns. ENJOY!
Sunday, August 12, 2012
My Luck to Learn about Her Joy!
Amy Tan is one of my favorite authors. My youngest daughter fell in love with Sagwa about the same time I fell in love with Saving Fish From Drowning. Amy loves to talk about writing and when she does there is a personal connection with her audience. She is real and full of humor. Listen to her talk about her muse.
In another interview Amy talks about writing what you know. It is important to any writer to come at your audience armed not with verbosity and prose, but instead with truth and honesty. It is personal experience that make a writer's work interesting.
I love Amy Tan's sense of self and, especially, her sense of humor.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
A visit with Anne Rice
Anne Rice has been a favorite
author of mine for more than twenty years.
Her writing is engaging and so rich you feel you could almost touch what
she is describing. In a literary world
filled to brimming with slick glitz, Anne Rice is real, relevant and
respectable.
I adore her Facebook fan page! She uses it as an excellent tool to get to know her not just as an author, but as a person. When it comes to the “Be’s…” of the best practices (Be social, Be natural, Be consistent and Be diverse) Anne Rice hits them all in stride.
1) BE SOCIAL: Her fan page is engaging in that Anne talks to her FB fans as if they are friends, albeit FB friends. She keeps them up to date on her travel, notes her fans might find useful and interesting (shooting tragedies, quotes from the recently deceased, etc.) and other various and sundries. She also takes the time to respond to fans that have posted on the page in a timely and personal way.
2) BE NATURAL: There is nothing at all “forced” about Anne Rice’s fan page. She likes to find and post quotes from famous people (Thomas Paine, Gore Vidal, Bertrand Russell) about things that people at large are currently talking about. Religion is a big topic, but is presented in a way which questions but does not detract. The delivery is friendly and professional, and written in a constant and consistent “voice” that is pleasing and inviting.
3) BE CONSISTENT: Not a problem at all for Anne Rice on her fan page. The postings are frequent and the timeline is recent and up-to-date. She keeps her fans informed even when she is on travel to Zurich! She seems to post as many as five or six times per day, but never seems to rant.
4) BE DIVERSE: There is very little, if any “hawking of the wares” on Anne Rice’s fan page. One of her most recent postings is about her son’s first novel, but it comes across more as pride in her progeny than it does as attempt to sell his books. She does quote from some of her own works, but there are even more quotes which relate to current events and come from people other than herself. She also likes to respond to her fans in as many of the postings as possible. Her page is anything but boring!A thoroughly enjoyable visit!
I adore her Facebook fan page! She uses it as an excellent tool to get to know her not just as an author, but as a person. When it comes to the “Be’s…” of the best practices (Be social, Be natural, Be consistent and Be diverse) Anne Rice hits them all in stride.
1) BE SOCIAL: Her fan page is engaging in that Anne talks to her FB fans as if they are friends, albeit FB friends. She keeps them up to date on her travel, notes her fans might find useful and interesting (shooting tragedies, quotes from the recently deceased, etc.) and other various and sundries. She also takes the time to respond to fans that have posted on the page in a timely and personal way.
2) BE NATURAL: There is nothing at all “forced” about Anne Rice’s fan page. She likes to find and post quotes from famous people (Thomas Paine, Gore Vidal, Bertrand Russell) about things that people at large are currently talking about. Religion is a big topic, but is presented in a way which questions but does not detract. The delivery is friendly and professional, and written in a constant and consistent “voice” that is pleasing and inviting.
3) BE CONSISTENT: Not a problem at all for Anne Rice on her fan page. The postings are frequent and the timeline is recent and up-to-date. She keeps her fans informed even when she is on travel to Zurich! She seems to post as many as five or six times per day, but never seems to rant.
4) BE DIVERSE: There is very little, if any “hawking of the wares” on Anne Rice’s fan page. One of her most recent postings is about her son’s first novel, but it comes across more as pride in her progeny than it does as attempt to sell his books. She does quote from some of her own works, but there are even more quotes which relate to current events and come from people other than herself. She also likes to respond to her fans in as many of the postings as possible. Her page is anything but boring!A thoroughly enjoyable visit!
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