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Top 10 Authors on Twitter

Naturally, there are a lot of authors out there who are as great using Twitter's 140 character limit as they are with writing full length books!

If you're looking for some interesting new authors to follow, consider some of these options:

Bethanne Patrick, @TheBookMaven
- Writer, author, critic. Also #fridayreads, every week; personal/writing tweets @justbethanne.
- Joined Twitter in August, 2008
- Over 70k tweets
- Most recent book: An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy: How Manners Shaped the World

Maud Newton, @maudnewton
- Writer, reader, critic. Recently in @Harpers, @NYTMag, @Awl, and @Tin_House. Writing a book for @RandomHouse about the science and superstition of ancestry.
- Joined Twitter in June, 2008
- Over 15k tweets
- Most recent book: America's Ancestry Craze

Neil Gaiman, @neilhimself
- will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.
- Joined Twitter in December, 2008
- Over 82k tweets
- Most recent book: Trigger Warning (read our review!)

Margaret Atwood, @MargaretAtwood
- author
- Joined Twitter in July, 2009
- Over 26k tweets
- Most recent book: Stone Mattress

Anne Rice, @AnneRiceAuthor
- Author of The Vampire Chronicles, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches and many others. PRINCE LESTAT is out Oct 28, pre-order here: http://tinyurl.com/l4g37my
- Joined Twitter in March, 2009
- Over 13k tweets
- Most recent book: Prince Lestat

Meg Cabot, @megcabot
- Author of The Princess Diaries, The Mediator, and Size 12 mystery series (among other books). Cat owner. Insomniac.
- Joined Twitter in December, 2008
- Over 4k tweets
- Most recent book: Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls Book 2: The New Girl

R.L. Stine, @RL_Stine
- My job: to terrify kids
- Joined Twitter in December, 2009
- Over 20k tweets
- Most recent book: Classic Goosebumps #32: Please Don't Feed the Vampire!

Ben Greenman, @bengreenman
- NYT-bestselling author, @NewYorker writer: books both fiction (The Slippage, Please Step Back) & nonfiction (@George_Clinton memoir, Mo Meta Blues w/@questlove)
- Joined Twitter in February, 2010
- Over 35k tweets
- Most recent book: The Slippage

Linda Grant, @lindasgrant
- Novelist, winner of the Orange Prize, shortlisted Booker Prize. Upstairs at the Party published July 2014. Counted on lovers like railroad cars.
- Joined Twitter in April, 2010
- Over 46k tweets
- Most recent book: Upstairs at the Party

Jackie Collins, @jackiejcollins
- Kick-ass writer!
- Joined Twitter in April, 2009
- Over 21k tweets
- Most recent book:Sinners

Exciting New Thriller & Mystery Books | Week of April 28th, 2015

John Sandford's highly anticipated Gathering Prey comes out this week as you follow the Travelers, a group of nomads who commit no crimes, but are being picked off one by one. Martin Walker's favorite chief of police, Bruno, is back and on the case in The Children Return as his small town is targeted by a terrorist network. If you'd prefer a compilation of short stories, buy Mary Higgins Clark's Death Wears a Beauty Mask which you can buy in Hardcover, Kindle eBook or Audiobook format.

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Great Biographies & Memoirs to Pick Up| Week of April 28th, 2015

Fans of dramatic life stories have a few lovely options for books this week in the upcoming memoirs and biographies. The Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life Beyond Death by Janis Heaphy Durham recounts the tale of Durham's husband passing away from cancer and the launch of her life crossing spiritual boundaries. Follow the story of Louise Troh, fiancee of the first man to die of Ebola in America, in My Spirit Took You In which is available in Kindle eBook and Hardcover. Need something lighter than tragedy and death? Check out Dangerous When Wet by Jamie Brickhouse, considered o be both darkly comedic but also deeply poignant, in Kindle eBook or Hardcover format.

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Best New Literary Fiction Books This Week | Week of April 28th, 2015

Do you enjoy speculating on the future? Look up Nicole Wallace's Madame President for a novel including domestic and political intrigue about the 45th President of the United States. From the Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley (author of Some Luck), her next book Early Warning will be available in Kindle eBook, Hardcover, Paperback and Audiobook.

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Sultry New Romance Books| Week of April 28th, 2015

Followers of the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James Place series will enjoy Lorraine Heath's The Duke and the Lady in Red, available in Kindle eBook and Paperback. If you love Love in Bloom by Melissa Foster, then you'll want to pick up her new book this week - Catching Cassidy.

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New Young Adult Fiction Novels to Read| Week of April 28th, 2015

If you enjoy fantasy themed Young Adult novels, you're in luck this week. Fans of Game of Thrones-esque novels might enjoy The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey or An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. For a more unique book similar to the popular The Book Thief, consider picking up The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough available in Hardcover, Kindle eBook and Paperback format, if you'd like a different perspective on love and death.

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The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

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A National Book Award finalist, and now Pulitzer Prize winner, All the Light We Cannot See is an eloquent journey through the devastated vistas of World War II Germany and France. The multi award winning author Anthony Doerr has yet again woven powerful metaphor with starkly accurate physical detail into a story that, while set in a war, reflects poignantly on human existence.

Marie-Laure is the blind daughter of the master of locks at Paris’s Museum of Natural History. When the Nazis occupy Paris, her and her father flee to the sea side citadel of Saint –Malo to stay with her great uncle, baring with them the museum’s most valuable jewel.

Werner is a German orphan. Blessed with advanced electrical and engineering ability since a young age, he is picked up by the aggressive Hitler Youth program, and sent into France to use his radio building aptitude to flush out the resistance. As he becomes ever more aware of the human cost of his proficiency, he is troubled by the world he lives in.

When the Nazis reach Saint- Malo, his path converges with Marie-Laurie and their personal methods of survival are brought to light.

Check out the other nominations for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.

Great New Young Adult Books to Check Out | Week of April 21st, 2015

Lots of exiting new young adult books to check out this week in April! Like excitement? Buy Endangered by Lamar Giles. Lauren has a secret she's protected for years but now, everything is at risk when the Admirer catches her red-handed. Or consider Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby, available in Hardcover, Kindle eBook and Audiobook format, if you'd rather read a new young adult romance novel.

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Top New Literary Fiction Novels | Week of April 21st, 2015

Toni Morrison's first novel to be set in our current time period is out this week - make sure to check out God Help the Child which you can buy in Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle eBook or Audiobook format. Feel more like reading a humorous new novel? Consider picking up The Blondes by Emily Schultz, in which women with blonde hair are being turned into rabid killers thanks to a quickly spreading disease in New York City.

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Best New Biographies & Memoirs | Week of April 21st, 2015

Two of the top novels for the best biographies and memories from the first half of 2015 are out this week - And the Good News Is... by Dana Perino and A Work in Progress by Connor Franta. Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation and the book is available in Paperback, Kindle eBook and Audiobook. Dana Perino's memoir reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, including stories from behind the scenes at the White House with President George W. Bush that the cameras never captured. And the Good News Is... is available in Hardcover, Kindle eBook and Audiobook format.