The Literary Twitosphere
by Debra Hamel on June 05, 2007
Update: I’ve just added a couple more literary Twitter sites to this list where it was originally posted over at the-deblog.com. I’ll continue to update there as I discover more literary Twitterers..
It seems like literary sites are suddenly beginning to make more use of Twitter. A number of litblogs and publishers have created Twitter accounts in just the last couple of days. Here’s a list of the literary Twitterers I’m aware of, including my own accounts:
3ammagazine: From 3:AM Magazine.
az_fiction: Amazon’s current top sellers in fiction. See Caracara for a list of other Amazon categories available on Twitter.
BAFAB: Announcements about Buy a Friend a Book Week.
book_blog: Book review notices from my own site, book-blog.com.
BookDepository: Editor’s Corner blog posts from Mark Thwaite’s The Book Depository.
Bookins: A sampling of available books from Bookins, the book swap site.
Books: In association with readersread.com.
booktwo: Reading Joyce’s Ulysses via Twitter. See booktwo.org.
britlitblogs: The British literary scene, in association with BritLitBlogs.com.
Dr_Watson: Musings from Sherlock Holmes’ surprisingly well-wired assistant.
HesperusPress: Associated with the Hesperus Press blog.
LibraryThingTim: News from LibraryThing, the book cataloguing site.
nyt_books: Book news from the New York Times.
OUPblog: The Twitter account of Oxford University Press’s blog editor.
ReadySteadyBook: Posts from Mark Thwaite’s Ready Steady Book.
SmithMag: Searching for six perfect words. See also smithmag.net.
Snowbooks: From the independent publisher Snowbooks.
TwitterLit: Twittering the first lines of books twice daily. See also TwitterLit.com.
TwitterLitCA: The Canadian version of TwitterLit.
TwitterLitNews: TwitterLit-related announcements.
TwitterLitUK: The UK version of TwitterLit.
Writing: Associated with writerswrite.com.
If you’re interested in searching for other literary topics on Twitter, I’ve created a Google custom search engine that just performs Twitter searches.
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