Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Hugos for two LT Authors!

The 2009 Hugo Awards (LT page) included awards for two LibraryThing authors—authors who are also members, and in this case ones with really serious LibraryThing collections!
  • Elizabeth Bear—member matociquala , with 1001 books cataloged—won "Best Novelette" for her “Shoggoths in Bloom." Bear won "Best Short Story" in 2008 for "Tideline."
  • John Klima—member johnklima, with 1,601 books cataloged—won "Best Fanzine" for his Electric Velocipede.
Congratulations to all the winners. The others include the social-media-savy Neil Gaiman, whose The Graveyard Book, won "Best Novel." We'll get him one day!

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Author interviews posted

Our first two author interviews, first seen in the revamped State of the Thing newsletter, are live on the site itself. The interviews are:Abby and I enjoyed reading the books—we both read from Bad Mother (thumbs up, but it will tweak you), and Abby read The Song is You (thumbs up)*. Philips' interview convinced me I should check him out. "A child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy champion" and a huge fan of Pale Fire? Will he come to our next party?

Want to do an author interview? Know someone who might? We're looking for authors, and we'd rather get great ideas from members than declare open-season on our inboxes from publisher PR types. Email abby@librarything.com about it.

We have a number of other things authors and publishers can "do" with LibraryThing on the about page. We'll be sprucing it up in time for Book Expo America in New York.


*I think we have to stop saying if we liked a book, as we'll eventually read one we positively hate and "Check out this interview with Mr-Can't-Write" probably won't win us any friends.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Who reads an author?

I've "brought back" top member lists on author pages, significantly enhancing them with lists that show the author's readers among your friends and connections, and among Legacy Libraries (eg., C. S. Lewis had a lot of Twain).

Also new, LibraryThing Authors now get a new "Your Readers" connections category, so they can find out what your readers think of a given author or work.



Discuss here

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