I think many of the CoG/HG authors have social media presences, but there’s no one place to get everyone’s FB, Twitter, websites, blogs, etc. With everyone being “free agents” it’s understandably fragmented.
My idea was that authors could just add their info to the list here and then we have a one-stop shop for all the info. If we make this easier to find, some forum dwellers (including lurkers) may take notice.
Upcoming HG: Attack of the Clockwork Army (Nov 7 probably!!!)
Best source for major updates eg game releases, print novel releases, lists of conferences I’m attending/hijacking (it averages one email per month): Mailing list at fellissimo@hotmail.com
Best source for general writing stuff, including awesome bits of steampunk or piratical history and recommendations for books/games (keeping in mind facebook won’t let you see all of it because they’re evil): facebook.com/felicitybanksbooks
Best spot for longer ramblings, such as the gritty origin stories of my…er… stories, plus talk about whatever I’m thinking about (my children, steampunk, pirates, fantasy, book reviews, game reviews, mental illness, God, human rights, etc): felicitybanks.wordpress.com
Best spot for (much) shorter ramblings about whatever I’m thinking about: @FBanksBooks
The site contains links to all our games, as well as a blog I update every month. This month’s post is about murder mysteries. If you read between the lines, you’ll get some ideas as to what I’m cooking up next!
I’ve just started up a facebook page specifically for “Attack of the Clockwork Army” which will be released within days!!! Aieeee!!
There’ll be story discussion there (as well as here, I’d imagine, so it depends on your style whether you want to talk there or here or both), plus lots of steampunk stuff (including some of my own book reviews), Australian stuff, articles on IF, and a LOT of links to people’s reviews of the game, including several reviewers you’ll definitely recognise.
I’ve tried a few mediums and twitter definitely has the most appeal to me - it’s easy to collect together the reviewers and IF movers and shakers together to send my game to as most have a presence there. Think I’m following around 380 of these . . . slightly outweighing my own 65 followers. But they’re creating pretty cool content and its fun retweeting stuff about IF
@Charles_Parkes, your Facebook is a person, not a group. I would Like you as Lucid’s Games, but it seems that I can only do that for groups and not people.
Ah, I was wondering why anyone who was an author rather than a company would run a business page too. Seemed like extra work - but this seems to be one good reason.
but eternal! So forgive me for reviving:
slightly outweighing my own 65 followers. But they’re creating pretty cool content and its fun retweeting stuff about IF