Showing posts with label Clive Staples Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clive Staples Lewis. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

If the LITERARY GREATS and BEST SELLING AUTHORS were little known, self-published....


......and had to promote themselves on Twitter.....  Part Three!

Part One is HERE, and Part Two is HERE



Roald Dahl @Unexpected


Sees the short story as an art form
Also writes #kidlit @GiantPeach
Father to aspiring model @SophieDahl

Welsh/Norwegian.  Pretty unexpected, huh?

@Unexpected Just written story about bees & #royaljelly.  Having fantasy about Susan George starring in BBC adaptation, lol.



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Jerome K Jerome @ManInABoat


Writer of comedy and satire
Author of Amazon bestseller Three Men in a Boat, & more
Keen cyclist and boater
No DMs, please


Oxfordshire


@ManInABoat Can someone tell me what #steampunk is, and if I ought to be writing it, or indeed if I already am?  Lol!  :^D



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Louisa May Alcott @LittleWoman


Novelist.  Seamstress.  Governess
Transcendentalist
 **Belieber**

Concord, Mass.

@LittleWoman Yo Fellow 43 Million Beliebers! LITTLE WOMEN is #FREE on Amazon NOW! #4 in >Classics! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Women-Series-Book-ebook/dp/B0082Z1CVQ #BYNR #MustRead



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Alan Bennett @TalkingHead


Northern working class oik done good
Self-confessed geek
Taurus.  Likes a good monologue.

Camden Town (with a bloke, okay?)

@TalkingHead New #blog post: Homosexuality and literature: it's not all about Kafka's Dick - or is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka's_Dick #MondayBlogs #LGBT



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Lewis Carroll @SlithyTove


Writer of #fantasy and #kidlit
How do you know the Jabberwocky isn't real?
Aquarius

Guildford

@SlithyTove Internet trolls getting snarky about my relationship with my niece.


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Lauren Weisberger @ManhattanGirl


Author of women's contemporary fiction
Debut novel out soon!
Based on my experience in the magazine industry
Watch this space!

Big Apple

@ManhattanGirl Urgh!  Stuck on title for debut novel!  What do my tweeps think about 'The Devil Wears Jimmy Choos'?  Please help! 



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A.A.Milne @Poohsticks


Poet and children's author
Proud father
The wonderful thing about childhood ~
is that childhood's a wonderful thing

Cotchford Farm, Sussex

@Poohsticks Subscribe to @PigletTweet!!! Too lazy to tweet and retweet?  @Piglet will do it for you, the little dear - go on, indulge him!


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Hunter S Thompson @Gonzo


Journo.  Author.  Biker.  Anarchist 
I drink, I get drunk, what's the problem?
(Please note: I am not Johnny Depp)


@Gonzo Contributed tweets for @Gonzo are delivered by @SomeCrapApp because I am too drunk to tweet. #amunconscious



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Clive Staples Lewis @Tumnus


Essayist.  Theologian.  
Author of fantasy series 
The Chronicles of Narnia
for children and adults of all ages

In the wardrobe...

@Tumnus Think my failure to get published is due to parents naming me after office sundries. #Hmmph



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Barbara Cartland @DianasGranny


Prolific author of romance novels
Any similarity to works by Georgette Heyer 
completely coincidental
Loves her pooch :)

Hatfield, Herts

@DianasGranny On the #blog this week: NaNoWriMo?  Pffft!  Amateurs!  I write a novel every afternoon! royalconnections@wordpress.com  #MondayBlogs


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