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About PublishingSpy
PublishingSpy is like a virtual party of the publishing industry. Except that there’s no wine, women or song. So it’s quite a lot like a real publishing party. All the tweets are like the overheard snatches of conversation going on around…
PublishingSpy picks out industry gossip on Twitter. The search feeds are configured to wittle out blurbing, ads, and too many people asking for help finding literary agents. Relevant tweets are automatically retweeted 24/7.
It is stochastic - not every relevant tweet is retweeted, just those that appear at the right time. Because if the news is REALLY important someone else will retweet - chances are that PublishingSpy will pick it up later.
If you want to know more - follow the ow.ly link at the end of the tweet to see the original tweet. Then you can follow the trail of tweets, or engage the author.
About MG Harris (Chief Spook @PublishingSpy)
As an entrepreneur in the information industry I was involved in early ways to help companies manage information and wrote several articles about information overload. (An example is a chapter I contributed for the book “i in the sky: Visions of the information future.”)
Now I’m an author of the bestselling children’s book series, “The Joshua Files” published in the UK by Scholastic Children’s Books UK. The first title, “Invisible City” has been shortlisted for several book awards. The publishers have sold rights in 17 foreign language territories.
My author website/blog is mgharris.net,
Official Web site for The Joshua Files
Official fan site for Joshua Files readers worldwide
Like all writers I am prone to the odd displacement activity. One morning I set up PublishingSpy after seeing my husband David Harris try something similar with @idea_flurry and @music_flurry.
You can follow me on Twitter @MGHarris, but I don’t tweet about the publishing industry there. I mainly tweet about cake, sweets and writing Joshua.
Some factoids
1. @PublishingSpy has around 1890 followers since it started on 20th May 2009
2. Every end of month I retweet the most popular three tweets to be posted in the previous month. These go on this Website too.
3. I monitor the feed occasionally and delete less relevant tweets (e.g. ‘Drinking tea and wondering how to start my new novel’.) Often I’ll replace them with something that seems a bit more relevant in one of the many twitter feeds followed by @PublishingSpy.
4. Editorial input? There is hardly any. I am not an industry expert. I was, however, an information professional and the habit of pulling out relevant chunks of info dies very hard…
