Ever Wonder Where Your Favorite SFF Authors Hang Out? (Updated!)

Updated 04/15/10!

After a year in hiatus one of the first things I wanted to do is update my twitter list of Science Fiction and Fantasy authors. I was pleasantly surprised to find a few of my all time favorites! Nothing tickles me more then watching authors sharing their day in 140 characters or less or blogging about their current writing projects.

So here for your Twittering, blogging, Facebooking and forum perusing pleasure is the old list with a few new additions. Enjoy!

Note: You can find a much larger twitter list which includes 7 different categories like publishers and book reviewers on my Squidoo page but if you want Facebook, Forum or Blog links you will find those here.

Since list is getting really long I put them in alphabetical order. This however will make it difficult to tell which are new entries. So I'll add an "added" date next to the new name. After a week the date will go poof!

Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Authors on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and Forums

Author	Facebook	Blog	Twitter	Forum
Kevin J. Anderson	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Catherine Asaro	Yes	No	Yes	No
Elizabeth Bear	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clare Bell	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Peter V. Brett (Updated)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Terry Brooks (Added 04/15/10)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tobias Buckell	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Tim Byrd	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Trudi Canavan (Added 04/13/10)	No	Yes	Yes	No
David B. Coe	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Eoin Colfer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cory Doctorow	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Diane Duane	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Warren Ellis	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jennifer Fallon	No	Yes	Yes	No
David Farland	No	No	Yes	Yes
Lorna Freeman (Added 4/14/10)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Gregory Frost	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Neil Gaiman	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
P J Haarsma	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Robin Hobb (Added 04/15/10)	Yes (MySpace)	Yes	Yes	No
Chris Howard	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Kate Forsyth (Aded 04/15/10)	No	No	Yes	No
Alison Goodman	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Steven Gould	No	Yes	Yes	No
Susan Gourley/Kelley	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
A. J. Hartley	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Simon Haynes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Stephen Hunt	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
J. V. Jones	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ellen Kushner	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Glenda Larke (Added 04/14/10)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Holly Lisle	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tom Lloyd	No	Yes	No	Yes
JM McDermott	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (as Badducky)
Sarah Monette	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Brandon Mull	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pati Nagle	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Vera Nazarian	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Terry Pratchett	No	No	Yes	Yes
Patrick Rothfuss	Yes	Yes	No	No
J. K. Rowling (Added 04/15/10)	No	No	Yes	No
Michelle Sagara (West)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Brandon Sanderson	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
John Scalzi	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Karl Schroeder	No	Yes	Yes	No
Erik Scott de Bie	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
William Shunn	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Michael A Stackpole	No	Yes	Yes	No
Matthew Sturges	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Judith Tarr	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Brent Weeks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jaye Wells	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Wil Wheaton	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Urban Fantasy Authors on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and Forums

Author	Facebook	Blog	Twitter	Forum
Ann Aguirre	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Toni Andrews	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Kelley Armstrong	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Jedediah Berry	Yes	No	Yes	No
Holly Black	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Jenna Black	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Alex Bledsoe	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Jim Butcher (Added 04/15/10)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rachel Caine	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
S. J. Day	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Leopoldo Gout	Yes	Yes	No	No
Laurel K. Hamilton	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mark Henry	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sherrilyn Kenyon	Yes	Yes	yes	Yes
Caitlin Kittredge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Suzanne McLeod	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Richelle Mead	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Justine Musk	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Patti O’Shea	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Tim (T.A.) Pratt	No	Yes	Yes	No
Jeri-Smith Ready	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Lilith Saintcrow	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Lisa Shearin	No	Yes	Yes	No
Janni Lee Simner	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Nalini Singh Added 05/23	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Maggie Stiefvater	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Ok so maybe Wil Wheaton doesn't technically belong on there but it is Wesley Crusher from Star Trek! And he did write some books....

*Disclaimer* As with anything on the internet, in some cases it is impossible to tell if the person behind the name is real or a fraud. I try my best to confirm the validity of these links but I can not guarantee them. Take for example,Terry Brooks. He has twitter, facebook, forum and website accounts devoted to everything Brooks but the posts are not his. He does however participate in a Q&A on the website each month so he is involved behind the scenes.

If I can't find a profile I am sure of on Facebook, but I do find a page, I'll link to that instead. Alot of authors control or are atleast active on their pages. I am also going to add a forum column. Now forums are problematic also. Some authors are very active in their forums, others are not. I am not going to have the time to determine which is the case so you will have to visit the forums and discover this for yourself. Oh and one other thing, I'll lump Sci-fi and Fantasy authors together, mainly because alot of them crossover in their writing, but if you are giving me a tip to an Urban Fantasy author, let me know because I am going to group them separately for you die-hard Urban Fantasy fans. And, one other thing, a No in the column does not mean it does not exist, it means I did not find it. Corrections are not only welcome but encouraged!

State of the Blog Address

I know I sorta disappeared all of a sudden but it was not really by choice. I am, however, still alive and kicking.

The sad truth is that I am paying the price for good, clean (and cheap) country living. Back here off the beaten track I do not have high speed internet as even an remote option. A few miles east or north I would have cable but once you cross the county line, it is like all signs of civilization just stop.

Well this wasn't much of a problem for awhile. My dialup, while slow, wasn't that bad. Until one day, after a thunderstorm, I started connecting at 9.6 kbps.

Now for those who have only read about dialup, here is a fact for you. The phone company is in no way responsible for the speed of your connection. As long as you have an active connection with no audible noise, their job is done.

So, I switched lines. This gave me a slower speed then I had previously (around 48 instead of 53) but still usable.

This lasted for awhile then those speeds went to (pardon my french) hell too. Now I connect at 28.8 which is barely enough to load one webpage, much less the 5-6 I need to do proper linkage and research on a review. And you do not want to know how long it takes me to load up something like Facebook or a graphic intense author's webpage.

I had hoped for a miracle restoration of my previous speeds (stranger things have happened!) but obviously I forgot to factor in my usual amount of luck, or lack thereof.

So what should take me a hour, maybe 2, to post, now takes hours and hours of frustrating page load times and honestly, when I caught myself yelling at the dog for no reason other then the fact that I couldn't get a vital page to load, I decided to give it a rest.

I won't claim to be gone completely. You never know, they might get cable in here one day or maybe the right trees will fall over so I can get a satellite dish but until then I am just SoL.

I do miss you guys though....

The Third Sign: The Chronicles of Klune by Gregory A. Wilson (Review)

A Fantasy Book Review

By Gregory A. Wilson

Genre: Epic Fantasy
ISBN: 1594147655
Publisher: Five Star (ME) (June 17, 2009)
Hardcover: 352 pages
Read an Excerpt (PDF)

Publisher's Blurb:

Calen Gollnet lives in a tumultuous world. Surrounded by hostile forces bent on its destruction, his country Klune has been free for ten years, having thrown off the yoke of oppression thanks to a small group of heroes known as the Covenant; but the cost of this freedom was great, and the nation's liberty is becoming tenuous. The Covenant is broken, and Klune is now kept safe only because of a treaty struck between the human king and a race of honorable but xenophobic mercenaries known as arlics who have patrolled Klune's borders for the past decade. But the treaty is due to expire, and both the arlics and humans are restless, each claiming that they have been weakened by their dependence on the other.

As negotiations between the two sides break down and dark armies gather while politics bogs down the governors of city and country, Calen flees from the army attacking his home city, unaware that there is more to fear than mortal warriors; the appearance of the horrifying Soul Wall and other omens point to the fulfillment of the Prophecy of Return, in which it is said that three signs will signal the return of a great evil. The first two signs have come to pass, but the prophecy is obscure on its final prediction: the tide of the conflict may be changed by the third sign, but no one knows what that sign is, or whom it will favor.

The Third Sign is pretty typical epic fare. You have a band of diverse characters off to save the world from destruction or die trying. You have a prophecy driving events, an obvious evil force bent on world domination with an obscure greater evil force waiting in the wings. In other words, this is exactly the type of book that I enjoy.

This is the perfect book for those days where you are not in the mood for gritty or deeply emotional but just want a good story. The pace is even, and the world building is interesting without being overly complicated. The characters engineer just enough sympathy to make you care what happens to them, without becoming emotionally involved. Even the line between "good" and "evil" is fairly clear and although there are times when you question which side who is on. This is the type of book that while you might find that you can easily put it down and go to bed, you really do not want to.

There are things that give this book an unique flavor. The Arlics are an interesting race with alot of possibility. There is plenty of internal conflict to balance out the external conflict. I personally like internal conflict; it gives the characters more depth. Actually, balance is the watchword for this story. All of the elements that drive this tale are so well balanced it is amazing. You have just the right dose of everything to keep the story moving right along, without any aspect overwhelming another. I honestly cannot bring to mind another book that accomplishes this so well. Reading this book for me was like spending time with a good friend, comfortable but interesting. In addition, once you are done, you consider the time well spent.

Good, traditional epic adventure, something that you do not find much of these days with authors trying to push outside of the genre box. Not that unusual and different is a bad thing but sometimes I just want to read good old-fashioned epic fantasy and this book fits that bill beautifully. Engaging, easy to get into and simply a good read. I look forward to the remainder of the series.

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