Side benefit of Tiptree fuss

[rivkat]

Matt Ruff (Set This House in Order, The Public Works Trilogy, Fool on the Hill) has a new LJ.

Thesis:

Myspace : bands (signed and unsigned) :: LJ : authors (professional and fan)

Discuss.

Comments

[thistle90.livejournal.com]

Oh. Cool. I hung out with Matt in college and he wrote Fool on the Hill for an independent study. We were pretty impressed when it actually got published. Most of the characters were inspired by folks in our (very, very weird) dorm. Haven't seen him since he graduated, though. I didn't know there was a new book. I might check it out.

[funkyreunion.livejournal.com]

hello from a friendsfriends surfing alumni of that wonderfully weird dorm ('89-'93)!

[thistle90.livejournal.com]

*waves*

Good times.

We overlap by a year, but I didn't live in the dorm after sophomore year, so I probably didn't meet you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Yes! Especially SFF authors (*).




(*) Personal anecdote! I was raised entirely on literary fiction by literary-fiction-snob parents, but I am considering pursuing SFF writing as a career because of the friendships with pro SFF writers that I've grown over a few years of LJ.

[alexisallen.livejournal.com]

Hm. Because writers want comments/discussion and the option for privacy? But most of my friends never actually put any of their work on LJ.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

And most bands don't put much of their music on MySpace, but they use it to connect with fans and offer teasers. It's not necessarily about an alternate distribution channel but a means of making connections with like-minded (or -eared) sorts.

[darkest-light.livejournal.com]

Yay Tiptree!