Tuesday, June 29, 2010

700,000 Facebook fans--just what an author dreams of!

Gregory Levey's post at The Nervous Breakdown about his 700,000 Facebook fans cracked me up.

9 comments:

middle grade ninja said...

Hi Janet! That is funny! I blogged about you today and my love for all things shark: http://middlegradeninja.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-of-week-ivys-ever-after-by-dawn.html

Alan Orloff said...

A perfect commentary on social marketing for writers. And, oh yes, funny!

Thanks!

Tessa Quin said...

I wish he'd loan me a thousand...

Charli Armstrong said...

CLASSIC!! LOL

laughingwolf said...

secret's out: use a dumb phrase as your book title

too funny, thx janet :)

Terri Coop said...

Remember the comic about the "alot." Well, her blog went viral right around that time. She was gaining about 1000 followers a week. She now seems to be in a meltdown. I guess there is such a thing as too much success (not sure about that, I would have to try it to be sure . . .)

Terri
www.whyifearclowns.com

Kristin Laughtin said...

Man, that definitely has to be bittersweet. To think and wonder how maybe all those people really like your work, only to discover that most of them don't know who you are.

I will have to think up some insanely clever phrase to use as a book title. Shame that most of my titles seem to be one or two words...

Tahlia said...

Ooh let me have some of them. My new YA fantasy novel, 'Lethal Inheritance,' page has 28 fans. Mind you it's only been up a couple of weeks and the book isn't published yet.

You can read ch1 if you like, on this page -
http://publishersearch.wordpress.com/lethal-inheritance/

On the home page there are postings about writing, challenges of the writer's life and getting published.

Jaleh D said...

His response to his sudden "popularity" made me chuckle. I don't read all that much non-fiction, but I may have to check out that book now. And maybe fan his book's page, too. :D