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!