Tuesday, August 01, 2006

100 LibraryThing Authors *




The 100th author to become a LibraryThing Author is Elizabeth Bear / matociquala, author of Hammered, and others. Congratulations to Elizabeth, who gets a free gift account for her lucky timing.

The LibraryThing Authors program, which we launched at the end of May, highlights authors who are also members of LibraryThing. The idea is that readers would love to see what their favorite author has in his or her own personal library.

Authors catalog their books (they have to enter at least 50) and then are given a special shiny yellow button, linking their personal profile with their author page. It gives readers a window into authors' tastes, and authors a great new way to connect with their readers.

We've gotten a very positive response, and our list includes Rosina Lippi / greenery (who also writes under Sara Donati), Lisa Carey / axel, David Louis Edelman / DavidLouisEdelman, and many more.

Know anyone else who should be a LT Author? Send them my way! Tell your favorite author, your friends, your publishers, your pets...


*Don't worry, when we hit 99 authors, I did start singing "take one down, pass it around..."

8 Comments:

Blogger David Louis Edelman said...

Congratulations on the continued success, Tim & Co! (And thanks for the additional plug for Infoquake, which I've really done nothing to deserve.)

And of course, mad grand props to the sublime Elizabeth Bear.

8/02/2006 12:57 AM  
Blogger Tim said...

Consider it a random act of kindness. Besides being an author, you're a web programmer. That counts for a lot in my book...

8/02/2006 1:39 AM  
Blogger Abby said...

tole_lege
No! (That would certainly cut our numbers down, if we required that the author had written at least 50 books)!

She has to list at least fifty of *any* of her books - anything on her shelves. That way, readers can see what she herself likes to read (not just what she's written). Does that make sense?

8/02/2006 3:20 PM  
Blogger Cé S. said...

Congratulations. The user gaspari is an author too.

8/03/2006 1:47 PM  
Blogger Abby said...

Diotima - Just send me (abby at librarything.com) an email, and I'll set you up!

8/03/2006 2:06 PM  
Blogger dhamel said...

Ooh, having read this post originally in RSS I didn't realize you'd posted a picture of my book! Thanks, Tim.

8/04/2006 9:47 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

Debra. How could we not? Besides you being such a FOLT (Friend of LibraryThing), you've got a sexy cover on an academic book. That means we get to show the naked woman AND, when questioned about it, can plead scholarly shock—we didn't even look at the cover ourselves!

8/05/2006 8:58 AM  
Blogger dhamel said...

Hah! That's right: I didn't even realize it *had* a cover, just skipped to the stuff about agones timetoi.

8/05/2006 3:17 PM  

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