Phoebe-Writing Updates and General Musings on Social Networking
Happy Labor Day, Gentle Reader!
With the launch of the Intergalactic Academy, I’ve been struggling a little bit with what to do with this blog. Oh, don’t worry–I wouldn’t dream of abandoning you. Still, as time has gone on, my writing has become more . . . diffuse, spreading to different corners of the Internet like YA Highway and Strange Horizons. As I’m now reviewing both at the Intergalactic Academy and Strange Horizons, phoebenorth.com will no longer be the home for all of my reviews. I still plan on cross-posting my goodreads reviews which are not published elsewhere here, but that won’t be with quite the frequency that it once was.
I’m hoping to use this space generally for more personal blogging and photography, such as my blog post on Hurricane Irene. I used to do this kind of thing a lot back in the glory days of sites such as diaryland and livejournal (no, I won’t tell you my usernames there), and I do miss it. It won’t be on any sort of regular schedule, most likely–rather whenever the muse decides to visit. And I’ll probably still sometimes post about writing and the writing world here, too, because, let’s face it, I love talking about that stuff.
All of this has been complicated–or maybe simplified?–be the advent of google+. I’m hardly using twitter or tumblr or even facebook at all these days. It wasn’t something I really planned for–google+ just has easily encompassed the uses I had for all of the above services, in one interface. Though I do use my circles for management and some filtering, most general life updates (which once would have gone on twitter or facebook) or cross-posting of nifty stuff from the web (which is what I was using tumblr for) is now going there, as well as links to my writing around the internet, almost as soon as it happens. So if you need obsessive Phoebe-updates, follow me there.
Though I’m hardly using my personal twitter, I’ll continue to post links to my blog posts (since those are automated), as well as links to my writing in other places. I’m also now tweeting sci-fi and science related links at the Intergalactic Academy twitter account. Those won’t be personal links–more a way to put my 300+ blog subscriptions to good use and share items of interest with other sci-fi fans.
I don’t really want to post every piece of writing here in real-time, though. That feels clunky and obnoxious. Still, if you’re reading here, I figure that means you actually want to read stuff by Phoebe North, right? So once a month I’ll link to places where my writing appeared. The more substantial of these (reviews and articles) will also be posted to my bibliography pages.
So here’s where my writing appeared in August:
- On August 21st, I posted a guide for YA authors on submitting short fiction at YA Highway.
- On August 24th, I reviewed A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness at Strange Horizons.
So. I think that’s it. Long story short: links to my own writing on twitter (but not much else); sci-fi tweeting at the Intergalactic Academy twitter account; various reviews and articles at the Intergalactic Academy, YA Highway, and Strange Horizons; personal blogging and writing about writing and some reviewing here, at phoebenorth.com with once-monthly links to writing elsewhere; and, finally, assorted random STUFF, plus links to all of the above on google+. And I’m not really using tumblr or facebook at all, though they’re, like, there. Sorry–something’s gotta give.
Phew. Any questions?
Phoebe
Phoebe is a 20-something writer who lives in New York State with her husband and cat. She is a dork, not a geek or a nerd.
Her debut novel, Starglass, will be released from Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in Summer 2013.
2 comments
I was looking for the 'like' button but this comment will have to do. Wink. Social networking changes faster than anything it seems.
Hehe <3 It sure does. These days, though, I figure that if a service isn't meeting my needs (like facebook, whose, say, messaging system is all-but-useless now), why stick with it? I still check in on other people on there, of course. But no need to make it my own home base.