The Literary Twitosphere
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.
GraywolfPress: Associated with Graywolf Press.
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.
Twaiku: Haiku Twitters. See Twaiku.com.
TwitterFiction: Great works of fiction in brief. See also TwitterFiction.com.
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.
TwitterProse: Great lines from creative nonfiction. See Free Range Librarian.
Writing: Associated with writerswrite.com.
YalePress: Associated with the Yale Press Log.
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.












Thanks for this list. Love that photo of you as child in a literary lair, all those books!
I. Love. Books.
twitter.com/vaspers
Posted by: Vaspers the Grate | June 05, 2007 at 12:37 PM
That's not me! That's daughter number one.
If you know of any other lit Twits let me know and I'll add them to the list.
Posted by: Debra Hamel | June 05, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Or possibly daughter number two, depending on which picture you got.
Posted by: Debra Hamel | June 05, 2007 at 12:58 PM