I heard about
the event from CJ Daugherty, who I previously met at another event (YA genre
panel also w/ Holly Bourne and Alexia Casale), and she advertised it on her
twitter.
Transmedia stroytelling: Storytelling across
multiple forms of media, with each element making distinctive contributions to
a user's understanding of the story universe, including where user actions
affect the experience of content across multiple platforms
James: “Facebook
is constantly selling you books but it’s on Twitter where you gain the reader.”
They went
onto the discussion of how they present themselves on twitter. Commenting on
that twitter allows you to be genuine and not self-promote all the time because
people don’t want to be following someone who is constantly promoting. Sarah
commented on how she takes the route of posting humorous tweets and, linking to
the above quote, it’s about gaining not selling.
Alison: “Behave
online like you do offline.”
Arguments?
Complaining? Twitter is so open that people can freely tweet an author about
the book and their opinions. All agreed that although they would normally say
something, they have to not follow through with people tweets.
After the
talk, there was time to “mingle.” Having never tried to mingle before, I took
an opportunity to give it ago after having a nice little discussion with two
people seated near me before the talk started. Luckily, I had some idea of who
to approach first, the evening host, Katie. As I want to pursue a career in
publishing and this event was about the publishing world, I took the
opportunity to ask as many questions about what publishers look for in
candidates. She helpfully guided me to another woman who then guided me to
another, until slowly I found myself “mingling!” In all my excitement, I was
even more excited when I found out that I wasn’t the only student at the event!
I am SO hoping that I can get an opportunity to go to one of these events again!!
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