Tell Me Something Tuesday: Do You Follow Your Favourite Authors on Social Media? Do You Interact With Them?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Heidi at Rainy Day Ramblings in order to discuss a wide range of topics from books to blogging (and some slightly more personal matters throw in for good measure). After Heidi stopped blogging (apparently for good), five of us took over as hosts while providing new questions. The current team is composed of Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell and Roberta at Offbeat YA. This week's question is...

DO YOU FOLLOW YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS ON SOCIAL MEDIA? DO YOU INTERACT WITH THEM?

Apart from the authors I have a more personal relationship with (which includes beta-reading for them), only two of my very favourite writers are active on Twitter (the only social media I use, if you don't count Goodreads...which you...well, don't count 😂. I mean, is GR a social media? Hardly...). They are:

Nova Ren Suma (@novaren) 

She isn't very active (and mostly tweets writerly stuff), but I've had the chance to interact with her a handful of times, if briefly (I try not to impose myself). Once I mentioned really missing/looking forward to new books from her, and she quote-tweeted me saying something about tweets like mine being a morale booster when writers are alone with their WIP and struggling with the age-old "is there anyone out there who actually cares?" authorial question. It was heart-warming.

Seanan McGuire (@seananmcguire)

Unlike Suma, she's VERY active, and doesn't shy away from sharing private slices of life when she sees a valid reason for it, but on the other hand, she doesn't usually engage in one-on-one conversations with fans - she doesn't even use the "like" button, though she retweets stuff all the time. I understand that, what with her level of popularity and social media being the pits at times, she needs to set some boundaries, and I respect it. (To be precise: she is available via her site contact form, though it might take a bit for her to reply. That's what she states on Twitter from time to time. I have no experience with it). I think she only retweeted one of my reviews of her books so far (and I'm sure it's because there's no way she can keep up with her notifications - she probably only retweets stuff that goes live while she's online, and probably only sees a fraction of it), and we only interacted a couple of times, very briefly (when I commented on one of her tweets and she replied, and when she answered a question I posed in a Twitter Q&A). Apart from her books, she tweets about disability issues, boosts other content creators/artists, shares pics of cats (hers but not only), amphibians, My Little Ponies, Magic cards and D&D dice sets (which she collects. The last three, I mean 😉).

Well, that's it for now. Did you enjoy this post? Would you like to participate in the meme on a regular or semi-regular basis, and get emailed the prompt list? Just head over here and fill in Jen's form! (Of course, you can jump in anytime you like - you are under no obligation to actually do all the posts, or even most of them, just because you signed up, and you can remove yourself from the list at any time). And if you're interested in participating in a more casual manner, or only in commenting, here is the TMST prompt list for the months of October and November (because I don't know when I'll be around again - see below):

• October 4th: Do you get emotional over books/movies/TV series? (a question I submitted)
• October 11th: How long do you give a new-to-you series to decide if you like it? 
• October 18th: Which genre/s do you enjoy the most?
• October 25th: Share your favorite horror books or movies
• November 1st: What was/were your favourite subject/s in high school?
• November 8th: Do you belong to any book clubs?
• November 15th: What activity that you've read a character doing in a book have you dreamed of trying?
• November 22nd: Tell us about your favorite books as a kid
• November 29th: Which books are you looking forward to reading this winter? (Dec-Feb)

Due to my ongoing home problems, I have no plans for the meme at the moment. Well, no plans for my blogging, though I will post a September recap in a few days. After that...hiatus again. I'll keep you updated about the whole mess I'm in, and I hope you'll forgive me for not being able to visit your blogs in the meantime. I'm completely overwhelmed and exhausted. I miss you. I miss normalcy. More of that in a few days...

Now tell me something...do you chat with your favourite authors on social media? or follow them at least?