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Submitted by Bethanne on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 1:02pm Giveaway: Women Writers, Twitter Friends
How can you resist this giveaway? Not only are you going to receive four fantastic reads -- you're going to be supporting four fantastic women writers. What do they have in common? Well, each of them has come down from New York City to be interviewed on The Book Studio (you'll see the finished clips with Hyatt Bass and Amy Sohn below; our interviews with Kaylie Jones and Julie Klam will air soon). But there's something else, too...
Each of these women writers is someone I got to know on Twitter. I knew their work already, and had read books by Jones and Sohn, but I hadn't interviewed any of them. When I joined the social media site back in February, I began using it to reach out to the usual suspects: People in publishing and...authors! I was surprised and delighted to see how many authors were already "Twitterate."
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Submitted by Bethanne on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 6:15pm A Conversation with Julie Klam
I met Julie Klam on Twitter. I don't even remember when, or how, but I had no idea at the time that she was a writer, let alone a recently published first-time author. It wasn't until after weeks of tweets zinging back and forth that I clued in to Klam's status -- and begged her to send me a copy of her memoir, "Please Excuse My Daughter."
Of course, then I panicked. What if this unknown blonde glamazon with whom I'd never even spoken on the telephone turned out to be a supremely untalented writer? Since we'd "met" on Twitter, we had several friends in common -- some of whom I do know "IRL" (In Real Life). What would I tell them if I hated Julie's book?
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