My ex-editor, Charlotte Abbott, has a great new blog, Follow the Reader, with FoAN, Kay Meyer. Today Kat interviews Colleen Lindsay, a friend (and ex-publicist–oooh, an ex convention!):
Colleen’s One Small Step Toward Saving Publishing Would Be:
“It would be great to see any one publisher make it a company policy to take one day a month AT WORK and make it a reading-only day. I’d love to see publishers step back and try to remember why most of their employees are working in publishing in the first place: a love of reading.But the way most of your day is structured at any publishing job actually precludes one from simply READING.
As an agent I’m up against the same thing. It was a huge wake up call for me last year to realize that in a 12-month period, I’d read only seven – SEVEN! – books that weren’t client manuscripts or partials I was evaluating. It takes some of the joy out of the work.”Fictitious Book Character She’d Most Like to Twitter With:
“Aud Torvingen from Nicola Griffith’s wonderful series of books The Blue Place, Stay and Always. But I suspect that Aud would just hunt me down and break my neck for bothering her.”
If you play nicely, Aud won’t hurt you–at least not much. Why don’t you try it and see?
Nicola Griffith 
Alex Strickland, the protag in the novel I’ve been working on for three years just recently started a Twitter feed. I was surprised when I found out, I tell you. You think you know what they’re doing, but you have no idea.
Good luck to the three of you — nicola, aud, kick(there are only three so far, right, no multiple personality disorders yet)…sometimes it can be a little scary letting the fictional (apologies for anyone taking offense to that adjective; I am just assuming at least two are fictional) folks have free run, but I’m sure it’ll be educational…
Will Aud have the TIME to respond to all those far out tweets?
Aud on Twitter? You should come up with a frame story as to why!
I thought about Twitter for one of my characters, but instead Aidan and Kaelin have been hanging out here: http://comeincharacter.blogspot.com
The conversations have been really fun.
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<>lynne<>, sneaky bastards.
<>lonelypond<>, well, there are lots o’ characters in Audworld: Dornan, Bette, Else, Luz. Who knows what they get up to when we’re not looking…
<>barbara<>, Aud will talk to those she knows. Sometimes.
<>mordicai<>, Aud doesn’t explain herself.
<>ssas<>, Kelley and I did a < HREF="http://community.livejournal.com/scullys_place/" REL="nofollow">LiveJournal<> thing years ago for <>Solitaire<> characters (old and new), but it was for our own amusement.