The book loving online community is a wonderful one, there is so much love on #bookstagram, and on Twitter there are so many good bookish people to follow. Fellow bookbloggers, booktubers, publishers, writers, illustrators, editors, agents, librarians, book trust people; there are so many great, clever book type people whose wonderings and witticisms you can enjoy. (It occurs to me as I write this list that I've chosen all female authors, I'll throw in a token male author if I can find one, but maybe they're just not very funny on or fun on Twitter??)
Here are some of my favourites authors to follow on Twitter:
Louise O'Neill @oneillo:
Louise O'Neill is the author of Only Ever Yours, her UH-MAY-ZING 2014 young adult dystopian novel, and Asking For It, which I have yet to read but comes out this year and sounds equally as harrowing yet brilliant. She's funny on twitter, follow her for such gems as:
Sassy shark stickers are kind of my life right now. Haters gonna hate.
— Louise O' Neill (@oneilllo) July 30, 2015
I dreamt my father was training the Cork football team and a newspaper article described me as 'the writer of To Kill A Mockingbird'.
— Louise O' Neill (@oneilllo) July 28, 2015
I've decided I don't really believe in curtains which is either going to make me very popular or very, very unpopular with the neighbours.
— Louise O' Neill (@oneilllo) July 27, 2015
This bus journey has been interminable. Even eye-fucking the cute backpacker sitting across from me has started to get boring.
— Louise O' Neill (@oneilllo) July 26, 2015
I have a meeting with my Irish publicist today.
That's apropos of nothing but I think it makes me sound uber professional and successful.
— Louise O' Neill (@oneilllo) July 24, 2015
AHHH there are gems the whole way down, just follow.
Mel Salisbury @AHintofMystery :
Mel Salisbury is the author of The Sin Eater's Daughter, which I read earlier this year and I am so looking forward to part two coming out next year. It was one of those ones where I felt a little burst of excitement upon finishing to know that the story wasn't over yet. She is also a Slytherin, and a very good representative of Slytherin greatness. Here are some of her assorted nuggets of wisdom:
"I Read The Comments And Tried To Lunge Into The Screen For A Happy, Stabby Time" - A novel based on true events, by Melinda Salisbury.
— Mel Salisbury (@AHintofMystery) July 29, 2015
I love how there are so many foods you can eat with a spoon. Like soup. And Nutella. And peanut butter.
— Mel Salisbury (@AHintofMystery) July 29, 2015
This is my Hogwarts House Poem:
Slytherin, Slytherin,
Born to rule, born to win
Loyal, cunning, hot as sin
Who doesn't adore Slytherin?
— Mel Salisbury (@AHintofMystery) July 28, 2015
Sometimes it's very excellent to stand and look at the sea and realise you are alive right now.
— Mel Salisbury (@AHintofMystery) July 26, 2015
Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnson:
Maureen Johnson is the author of the Shades of London series and lotsa other books too. She is a Nerdfighter and part of the Leaky/Geeky Con team and is dead funny. She's had some kind of crazy illness recently and been funny and witty in the tweet department throughout. She does of a lot of replying funny things to people too, which is fun. She is a COOL LADY.
Saturday. pic.twitter.com/2XOqh1GgG4
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) April 25, 2015
There is a children's party outside with the reddest, freshest watermelon I have ever seen...
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 19, 2015
In my defense, I am bigger and faster than those children and they don't deserve watermelon like that.
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 19, 2015
The person behind me at security decided they needed to explain every, single, thing I had to do. What a wonderful service.
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 27, 2015
I hope this person enjoys the storage closet I just locked them in.
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 27, 2015
Patrick Ness @Patrick_Ness:
Patrick Ness has written SO MANY BOOKS, which people love. I am really looking forward to The Rest of Us Just Live Here, which comes out at the end of August. I've just starting following him recently for these pearls of wisdom:
Patrick Ness has written SO MANY BOOKS, which people love. I am really looking forward to The Rest of Us Just Live Here, which comes out at the end of August. I've just starting following him recently for these pearls of wisdom:
BOOKS!!! Not quite as good as shagging, but better than religion, politics or the internet. Books, books, books, books, books!!!
— Patrick Ness (@Patrick_Ness) April 18, 2015
Cold sores are proof of the devil. Along with onions. And people described as "perky".
— Patrick Ness (@Patrick_Ness) July 22, 2015
Still buzzing after interviewing Judy Blume. Charm and warmth itself. And modest and funny. She really is who I want to be when I grow up.
— Patrick Ness (@Patrick_Ness) July 18, 2015
Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell:
Rainbow Rowell has a brilliant name and is the author of some great YA contemporary gems. Fangirl was my favourite, and I am so looking forward to Carry On. Such a great idea to take the fictional fan fiction in the book and give it its own book. I've heard good things about her adult book, Landline, which reminds me I should get around to reading it. Here is a sample of her tweetings:
8YO: “What’s your favorite breed of cat?”
11YO: “It’s hard to say; they’re all delicious.”
— Rainbow Rowell (@rainbowrowell) July 29, 2015
There are a bunch of dead jellyfish washing up on the beach. As a Nebraskan, my best guess about this is Godzilla.
— Rainbow Rowell (@rainbowrowell) July 24, 2015
Right now, I'm sitting and working in a house surrounded on 3 sides by the ocean. It's raining. I have hot tea. And wifi. And PEI is LOVELY.
— Rainbow Rowell (@rainbowrowell) July 19, 2015
My son bought one of those handheld sound effect machines and basically I’m living in Bob’s Burger’s now.
— Rainbow Rowell (@rainbowrowell) July 16, 2015
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