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Twelve People You Should Be Following on Twitter

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | 3 Comments

Hi everyone, I’m absolutely crazy busy today sorting out wedding stuff and (theoretically) writing. So instead of telling you my completely unfounded theories on writing, I thought I’d tell you who I look up to in the writing world and how to find them on Twitter. This is by no means a complete list and I’m sure I’ve left off people who should be on here. If that person is you, my apologies.

If you’d like to find me on Twitter I’m @ajackwriting. Yes, that’s a sonic screwdriver.

@elizabethscraig Elizabeth tweets writing links all day every day, grabbing the best advice articles from around the web and sharing them. If you follow her stream I guarantee you’ll learn something useful.

@chuckwendig Chuck Wendig is some kind of beard powered force of nature. I’ve already pimped his website www.terribleminds.com and his many, many books on writing. It’s also worth following Chuck on Twitter if only for the fact that he’s a really funny dude and his tweets are entertaining.

@fantasyfaction If you write genre fiction you can’t go past Fantasy Faction either as a website or a Twitter stream. Useful advice, top notch reviews and interesting links. Well worth a follow.

@mightymur Mur Lafferty, creator of I Should Be Writing and possibly the saviour of the universe, or at least the destroyer of Matt Wallace which amounts to more or less the same thing. Speaking of which…

@mattfnwallace Matt’s tweet stream is practically an Eldritch Abomination in and of itself. If swearing, violence or pure unbiased hatred of all life bothers you then this might not be the stream for you…on the other hand if you can cope with all that then Matt is an entertaining tweeter.

@scalzi John Scalzi, author, president of SFWA and human blog hybrid. Tweets useful advice, links to important blogs and updates.

@lilithsaintcrow Lilith Saintcrow is both absolutely hilarious and an excellent writer. She tweets pretty much constantly and it’s all good stuff.

@sfwa Science Fiction Writers Of America links, warning and news pertinent to genre writers.

@howardtayler Creator/cartoonist of Schlock Mercenary and one of the best writers anywhere for anything (although I doubt he’d believe me if I told him that). Living proof that excellent storytelling isn’t confined to novel format.

@cstross Charles Stross author of The Laundry series of supernatural thrillers (and lots of sci fi). Follow him for the same reason I do. He has a ridiculously enormou9s brain and you hope to absorb some of his intelligence through osmosis.

@rsullivan9597 Robin Sullivan heads up Ridan Publishing and has great advice coming out of her ears. In the same mention I also recommend following Michael J Sullivan at @author_sullivan

@kristadb1 Prolific writer of doom and dispenser of both excellent advice and excellent snark.

@Julie_Butcher because she’s awesome. That is all.

@skyladawn Skyla Dawn Cameron Author, blogger and acquiring editor. Also the person who can help stop you from making a complete dick of yourself if you follow her advice.

@dinajames Author of the superb All Wounds (as original a take on Urban Fantasy I’ve seen in a long time) and general dispenser of evil. Knows a lot about guns and helps me out by telling me things about weaponry I have no idea about.

Who would you recommend I follow on Twitter? Who do you keep in your Twitter feed (as opposed to your basement)?

Let me know in the comments

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3 Responses to “Twelve People You Should Be Following on Twitter”

  1. Dani GreerNo Gravatar
    February 1st, 2012 @ 5:59 pm

    @blogbooktours of course! :)

  2. Cinda FernandoNo Gravatar
    February 2nd, 2012 @ 7:08 am

    Joanna Penn @thecreativepenn also tweets a steady stream of helpful info like @elizabethscraig

    Nathan Bransford @nathanbransford is a former literary agent, current CNET correspondent, author of a YA novel, and reality TV fan. His tweets are helpful/funny and his website http://nathanbransford.com is a real gem

  3. SusanNo Gravatar
    February 6th, 2012 @ 1:55 pm

    Great writing info from a few good Tweeters:

    @galleycat

    @jakonrath

    writeitsideways’

    @ThisIsSethsBlog

    (Just FYI, I’m @2KoP)

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