How do you interact with your fave authors online?
Posted: October 31st, 2011, 10:29 am
I've been wondering this for a while, so I thought I'd throw it out to the forums. How do you interact with your favorite authors online? Do you visit websites, become a Facebook fan, follow them on Twitter? I know we're all scrambling to try to figure out how to maximize social media as writers, but I'm very curious to know how we're using it as readers.
Here are my answers:
Websites
While I've visited practically all of my favorite authors' websites, I've really only gone there once or twice and only stuck around for five minutes or so. Every once in a while I'll check back for info if I know they have a new book coming out. Otherwise, I'm not visiting for daily updates. There are three author blogs I follow fairly closely, though to be fair I haven't actually bought any books from two of them yet.
Twitter
I follow two of my favorite authors and, at first, I was checking in almost daily on their Tweets. That lasted about a week and a half. Since then, I honestly haven't looked at their feeds more than a handful of times.
Facebook
I haven't signed on to any author fan pages through Facebook.
It's not that I don't love them or anything, but for me, reading their books is sort of the be all, end all - anything else is just gravy. So, this has me thinking...how do readers interact (or WANT to interact) with authors. How about you?
Here are my answers:
Websites
While I've visited practically all of my favorite authors' websites, I've really only gone there once or twice and only stuck around for five minutes or so. Every once in a while I'll check back for info if I know they have a new book coming out. Otherwise, I'm not visiting for daily updates. There are three author blogs I follow fairly closely, though to be fair I haven't actually bought any books from two of them yet.
I follow two of my favorite authors and, at first, I was checking in almost daily on their Tweets. That lasted about a week and a half. Since then, I honestly haven't looked at their feeds more than a handful of times.
I haven't signed on to any author fan pages through Facebook.
It's not that I don't love them or anything, but for me, reading their books is sort of the be all, end all - anything else is just gravy. So, this has me thinking...how do readers interact (or WANT to interact) with authors. How about you?