Do my feelings for an author, as a person,
influence my feelings for their works?
And…
Should it?
You didn’t check out that post and weigh in? We had many fabulous responses, from both authors and readers. We’ll wait while you check it out and come back here.
Welcome back! During the fabulous discussion where all five of the Bookworms weighed in, the topic of Twitter and authors came up. And I started to wonder…
I definitely have favorite authors and publishing industry people that I follow on Twitter.
The Bookworms give you our top five (yes, 5 in honor of Cutie)Authors to follow on Twitter. I’ll go first.
Heather: These are in no particular order of importance, they’re just how they popped into my head or were in my time line on Twitter at the moment.
What can I say about Maureen Johnson? She’s my favorite YA author. She’s totally eclectic, strange, random, and she wears fancy dresses to book signings. Follow her for a little while and you’ll love her too. 
Patti O’Shea is the most approachable author that I’ve come across. We’ve often talked about our horrible coworkers, coffee, the weather, baseball, and the evil seminars we’re forced to attend at work. Not once have I tweeted her and not gotten a response. Patti is definitely the standard that I hold other authors to when I consider their social media skills and she sets the bar sky high. She doesn’t constantly push her books, but does post updates about her writing regularly.
Scott Nicholson is one of my favorite Indie authors and he tweets about the happenings around the Indie publishing world, as well as publishing as a whole. His tweet and links are always informative and educational, whether you’re a reader or wanting to dip your toes into the Indie world yourself as a writer. Scott is an innovator when it comes to making a living as an Indie author and he’s at the forefront of new and exciting ways of promoting yourself while putting out high quality, down right entertaining books. 
Chuck Wendig runs a very entertaining and supremely not safe for work writing blog called Terrible Minds. His tweets are often helpful and very entertaining, but you need a good sense of humor and like a said above, some of them are definitely NSFW. What I love most about Chuck is that he tells it how he sees it, and that is something this world needs desperately.
Andrew Shaffer, like Chuck Wendig, has a sense of humor that is often a bit warped. And that’s precisely why I enjoy both of their tweets so much. Andrew also has several alter egos that he tweets under, my favorite is Evil Wylie. Too funny to miss, with his biting sarcasm while telling the whole truth. Picking a list of just five authors is not an easy task! There are so many great authors on Twitter who are not only fantastic writers, but extremely awesome to their fan base. So I decided to share five authors on Twitter who are not only people I look up to as an aspiring writer, but who are constantly interacting with their fans, giving back and receiving as well. It just makes me heart happy.
Libba is AMAZINGLY funny! She’s always making me laugh, and I just adore her tweets. Like this one:
Rob writes so beautifully and about such scary, horrible things!!! And I love it when he tweets something like this:
Jeff is another writer of supremely creepy stuff. And his tweets show it.
So what do you think? Who do you enjoy following on Twitter and think that the Bookworms should follow too?
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Great post 🙂 I love Julie Kagawa, she is one of the sweetest and nicest authors that I've talked to on twitter 🙂
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Love this post! I love authors on twitter, I agree, Stephanie Perkins seriously has the best tweets. and john green and of course MJ :p I also love Kiersten White's twitter feed!
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So there 🙂
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Josephine Angelini is the sweetest person, and I just love following her. She almost always responds to tweets and DMs directed at her, and she is always, always so kind.
She's: @josieangelini
I agree with Audrey about Kiersten White. She's great at responding, too. And fun to read.
Lauren DeStefano is great, too. @LaurenDeStefano
To name a few! 😉
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okay, so I knew before reading the entire post I wouldn't be listed – I'm not that witty – but I'm happy that your sample tweet was a reply to me! 🙂
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Ha, I meant to tell you that 🙂
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I gotta say Maureen Johnson is one of my faves too. She could write a book out of her tweets. I must follow a lot of Indie authors or just not be on at the right time b/c I'm following most of these authors but never see their tweets. I used to see John Green or Neil Himself but not anymore. Heather- I'm not even two hours from Boone,NC. I'll have to follow him. I think I'm still scared of authors. They're like movie stars to me!
Heather
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This is a great post, I've been wondering which authors are on twitter so this is really helpful!
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That's very interesting!!
I don't really get on the Tweet bot but I think most of the authors I follow have their FB account and Tweety pages linked up.
I follow:
Kathe Koja
Laura Wiess
Maggie (I don't know how to spell her last name – Shiver Lady)
Laurie Raab-Hunsaker
Kresley Cole
Julie Kagawa
Kerrelyn Sparks
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Great post. I have got some new following to do.
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