Then a writer friend said, "No, you post news and stuff about your books and writing. People like that." But I was deep in my deadline and c.e. proofing cave, so I missed the opportunity to tweet that Shattered had made the printed NY Times.
Fast forward to February 24th. Being a political junkie who watches all the TV talking head shows, I saw reports of scads of tweets from politicians who were sitting in the chamber during President Obama's State of the Union speech. Although, for some reason, he didn't call it that. (Maybe because the state of the union is just too, too dreary and people would've tuned out and gone channel surfing to find an old episode of Knight Rider?)
Anyway, during the "Address to Congress," many of those politicians were busy tweeting. But some of them had no followers. Which brings up the Zen question: if you twitter and no one hears, is it truly a tweet? There was also the congressman who called Michelle Obama a babe. Which was kind of cute, if you're a frat boy. But I wonder how he explained that to Mrs. Congressman when his tweet showed up all over television.
Then the women of The View talked about Twitter. ( Which, afterwards, apparently caused the twitter website to crash.) I saw it featured on ABC nightly news. And my friend, Elen Grey, sent me a video of Jon Stewart talking -- well, ranting -- about twitter.
THEN, my sweetie shared an article in Newsweek about how this Kogi Korean BBQ taco guy in L.A. uses Twitter to let his customers know where his tandoori taco truck is going to be. And when he's running a few minutes late, a quick Tweet keeps people (often more than 600!) in line waiting for him to arrive. When police chase him away from one corner, the Twitterati quickly suggest another, and kazaam, quicker than you can say sesame-chili salsa roja, everyone's on the move!!! Given that he goes through an amazing 400 pounds of meat a night, this business model is obviously working for him.
So, although the Irish have never been known for being succinct, and I truly doubt I've ever had a thought that can be properly condensed to 140 characters (what, are we all supposed to be thinking in bumper stickers now?), since I've sent back my Breakpoint copy edits, written my teaser scene for the back of the book, and also actually managed to come up with an email to my editor and agent that sorta -- if you close one eye and squint a bit -- looks somewhat like a synopsis, I've stuck my toe back in the twitter pond. For now.
Meanwhile, my e-newsletter will be going out either Monday or Tuesday, with the back cover copy for Breakpoint, and I'll be announcing the title of sexy SEAL Sax Douchett's bayou book.
Plus, I'll be posting that teaser scene here on the blog Monday. (Okay, maybe Tuesday, depending how the weekend goes.)
Finally, enjoy this Friday's Funny video:
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Lord, I love that video. This is a great post. I suspect Twitter can be a good tool. Look what your taco guy accomplished with it. I'm still on the fence about it. I visited Mr. Tweet to get recommendations on broadening my Twitter horizons. Now, I'm just overwhelmed. I have 176 tweets in my box in the short time I was away having my hair get a quick cut, shape and bounce. That's pretty much Twitter chump change in the twitterverse. lolz
My biggest fear is becoming a twitter spud!
But it's kind of like an accident, you can't seem look away.
Cheers.
Wow, are you popular or what???? I made the mistake of turning on the tweet signal and was about to shoot my computer in the first five minutes.
I checked out Mr. Tweet for about two seconds, then decided the best thing to do was run away. Very fast and very far! LOL
Wah, it won't let me watch it because I'm in Canada.
I have the same problem as Cindy, cannot see it because I too am in Canada.
But this is the way I feel at twittering or tweeting or what every the heck you want to call it, By the time I get through emails, phone calls, blogs and heck read a book or two, do I really want to know that someone is on there way to the toilet. Please, give me strength, okay I will admit the guy with the taco stand could loose some bucks, but our political work force should be putting their minds to better effort, like making the goverment run!!!
And JoAnn I have "Shattered" in my pile of books. Cannot wait to get to it.
JoAnn,
I'm a fossil and will avoid twittering until I'm near extinction. But the video hilarious. :-)
Finish Shattered last week while I was recovering from a nasty bug. I think the book helped my recovery more than anything. And the ending? (No spoilers, see?)
Only our JR could pull that one off. Another great one. Now I wait for July.
Eeek! I joined Twitter for all of one minute before I realized it was a bad move on my part. Forget it, I'd be twitting all day, lol!! Plus, I doubt anyone wants to hear that I'm cooking dinner or vacuuming, lol.
Congrats on Shattered JoAnn!! ((hugs))
Elen has been urging me to twitter for months. yet still I resist. Facebook is distracting enough. I see that you have a new pup. Details please. And pictures.
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