Hello, Friends! Welcome to Cuddlebuggery’s Twitter Round-up, a feature showcasing our favorite literary (authors, bloggers, readers, general bookish community) tweets of the week. Hope you enjoy all the funny, insightful and interesting tweets we found lurking around the internet!
Authors On Twitter:
I am heartbroken. My one certainty fallen. How can this be? https://t.co/axixeDh4mI
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) August 4, 2015
.@KermitTheFrog I trust you will, one day, find true, lasting love. Or, failing that, write a tell-all autofrogbiography.
— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) August 5, 2015
I am genuinely confused by this troll? pic.twitter.com/2nek8Gunje
— Lauren DeStefano (@LaurenDeStefano) August 5, 2015
Me: "Oh say, I think I'll follow this one men's tailoring blog." Tumblr: "I see you have decided to devote your life to dandies."
— Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo) August 4, 2015
Guess I should be more organised… #itwillneverhappen
— elliemarney (@elliemarney) August 4, 2015
Tuesdays with me, at Starbucks. pic.twitter.com/AuQ37bk87e
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) August 3, 2015
how to self-promo right: - practice pitch - don't be a jerk - talent demonstrates talent - do seductive dances - threaten with bees - profit
— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) August 3, 2015
Some days, it's really really hard to know if it's your instinct telling you to do something, or your fear…
— Robin LaFevers (@RLLaFevers) August 3, 2015
No Autocorrect. Bikers and Boners are NOT the same thing.
— Jay Kristoff (@misterkristoff) August 3, 2015
Cookie time
— Maggie Stiefvater (@mstiefvater) August 3, 2015
@LBardugo 43% of the day, this is my outside face and my inside face. pic.twitter.com/KAB9H5FhHI
— Jenny Martin (@readjennymartin) August 2, 2015
Well, a night like this only comes once in a blue moon. (I'm probably the only person ever to come up with that one, surely.)
— Shannon Hale (@haleshannon) August 1, 2015
#booknerdproblems:
@kamigarcia what have you done to me? I need more of the Legion books???? please give me a date pic.twitter.com/njfo1skLQ0
— Mildred Ituarte (@mileituarte) August 1, 2015
Book wise, I'm only taking one new book with me on the Kindle – The Winner's Crime! Chickened out of Endsinger….AGAIN.
— NatalieCrownObs (@Natalie_Crown) August 5, 2015
Apostrophes don't make a plural. "I have ten apple's" then I'll ask "APPLE'S WHAT? What belongs to them? WHAT'D YOU STEAL FROM THE APPLES?!"
— Gillian Berry (@mizgillianberry) August 4, 2015
Me: settles on plane. Opens book. Realizes next chapter is about a plane crash. Slowly closes book. Opens new romance novel on iPad instead.
— Carrie Ryan (@carrieryan) August 4, 2015
More @hollyblack fairie books means only one thing… pic.twitter.com/HcKceHT0GS
— Angie Manfredi (@misskubelik) August 3, 2015
@haleshannon then you might like this photo of my daughter and I from 2004: pic.twitter.com/PlGBbYvBVe
— Jim Randolph (@library_jim) July 31, 2015
#amwriting Or Am I?
.@LaurenDeStefano just told me one of my characters was cooking up bullshit casserole, and it wasn't going to end well. #bestcomplimentever
— renee ahdieh (@rahdieh) August 6, 2015
*Peeks out of editing cave* *hisses at the night* *Returns to editing cave*
— Kat Kennedy (@_KatKennedy) August 6, 2015
me: I finished my book! friend: wow are you gonna celebrate? me: hell yes *takes off bra* *collapses into immediate couch nap*
— Lauren DeStefano (@LaurenDeStefano) August 4, 2015
Trying to get to 10K by midnight, but it's not gonna happen bc I'm researching types of doughnuts @DunkinDonuts. YES, THISNIS VALID RESEARCH
— Ricki Schultz (@RickiSchultz) August 4, 2015
Writer's block is so good for my running regimen. 5 miles today. Yup. And how many words written? *whistles* *casually strolls away*
— Veronica Rossi (@rossibooks) August 4, 2015
despair kebabs: so you take a stick of narrative inevitability & you slide on some readers' hearts (pierce 1st) … https://t.co/kb1HJ2eFDX
— Sarah Rees Brennan (@sarahreesbrenna) August 4, 2015
What do you mean I still need to write the book? I made a whole pinterest board, you can see what it's about!
— Amie Kaufman (@AmieKaufman) August 3, 2015
Editing note: Cut down on the gore. Response: You're no fun.
— Stephen Blackmoore (@sblackmoore) August 3, 2015
#fangirling Is For Everyone:
Gandalf: It is in men that we must place our hope Elrond: Have you seen their tweets
— Elizabeth S. Bruenig (@ebruenig) August 5, 2015
The pet adoption center I'm looking into has cats named after #GameofThrones. Words can't express how awesome this is pic.twitter.com/ldUofHUmWh
— Natalie Monroe (@pinkatailmon) August 5, 2015
The book life. Artist Kim Ji Hyuk. So lovely. pic.twitter.com/7etYJ9pfv0
— laini taylor (@lainitaylor) August 3, 2015
@jk_rowling Is there anything we can do to get a synopsis of #FantasticBeasts?
— mailo 469 dias (@bravefawkes) August 3, 2015
@jk_rowling i will give you my leg
— rammy (@RazzySheeran) August 3, 2015
Well, I think we've established broad parameters. Somewhere between cup of tea and severed leg is the ideal. https://t.co/6cghWvzeTY
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 3, 2015
harrypotterland with the geekycrew ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/ovr60OudjP
— Tahereh Mafi (@TaherehMafi) August 1, 2015
@Marie_Lu YOU MEAN CUTIEPUFF
— Tahereh Mafi (@TaherehMafi) August 1, 2015
Me as Draco and @LBardugo as SlytherLuna @GeekyCon pic.twitter.com/ZNpJD4aFip
— Veronica Roth (@VeronicaRoth) August 1, 2015
Discussions In The Community:
@eilatan @MikeRUnderwood Category romance = about half of all N. American book sales. First thing I learned? Those are HARD-WORKING WRITERS.
— Stephen (@Stephen_GM) August 5, 2015
"You're wrong!" these men say."PROVE IT!" YOU prove it. Use a female pen name. See what responses you get. Then write your own damn article.
— Elizabeth May (@_ElizabethMay) August 5, 2015
I'd be quite worried if a book didn't come out to a healthy mix of reviews. I would think everyone had been taken over by a hive mind.
— Samantha Shannon (@say_shannon) August 3, 2015
probably the hardest part of being a writer is hauling all these giant sacks of money up my countless stairs & across my spacious orgy pit
— Robert J Bennett (@robertjbennett) August 2, 2015
@sophiepenrose @JonBolds Written by a sleep-deprived mother to an infant whose been howling for hours.
— Vee (@jugglingscarves) August 1, 2015
More than one person looked at this & went "I see nothing wrong here". pic.twitter.com/eCJ0n5VYEj
— Tauriq Moosa (@tauriqmoosa) July 24, 2015
Tweetpic of the Week:
Siege & Storm cuddled for the 1st time today and it's the most adorable thing you ever did see, @LBardugo. -Steph pic.twitter.com/vJE0IsnyF5
— Steph, Kat & Meg (@Cuddlebuggery) August 4, 2015
Standard working conditions. pic.twitter.com/hxVFEKIJJg
— laini taylor (@lainitaylor) August 2, 2015
Tweet of the Week:
How many books would a woodchuck read if a woodchuck could read books?
— Mary H (@knoxdiver) August 3, 2015
Natalie M.
Twitter: pinkatailmon
OMG, my tweet was featured! I’m way too psyched about this than I should be. XD
Carina Olsen
Twitter: CarinaOlsen
Gorgeous post, as always, Kate 😀 Love seeing all the tweets. <3 And eeek, Steph's cats are ADORABLE 😀 I love them. They are so cute. <3 I already follow most of these amazing people 🙂 Well, okay, many of them, probably not most :p so I love seeing your posts 🙂 Thank you for sharing sweet girl. <3
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Lyn Kaye
Twitter: heartless_lyn
Aaaannnndddddddd now I have a crush on Samantha Shannon.