{"id":157,"date":"2011-09-21T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-09-23T13:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:04:42","slug":"the-power-of-maureen-johnsons-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Maureen Johnson’s Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I may have mentioned before, I am a fan of Maureen Johnson<\/a>. She’s smart, funny, and just plain weird. But I was not always a fan!<\/p>\n

The first time I heard of her was many years ago, on a musical theatre message board I frequent. If you did not know, Maureen Johnson is the name of a character in the musical Rent<\/em>, and someone posted an article where Maureen Johnson (the author) mentioned that she was sick of people asking her if she was the “real” Maureen Johnson from Rent<\/em>. I remember thinking, “God, she must talk to a lot of crazy people” and then forgetting about her.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
This is Maureen Johnson from Rent, so I guess you can see where she'd fight the comparison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Years later, I started using Twitter a lot. I noticed that many people I followed were frequently retweeting things from @maureenjohnson<\/a>, so I checked her out. “Oh, it’s that author,” I thought. “She’s pretty funny, I guess I’ll follow her too.” I followed her for awhile and enjoyed her tweets so much that I thought I had better read one of her books.<\/p>\n

I went to the library and picked one more or less randomly. I chose Devilish<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Devilish by Maureen Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I chose poorly. Devilish<\/em> was fine, or whatever, but it didn’t really grab me. I didn’t like it nearly as much as I liked her Twitter. So I moved on. I kept reading MJ’s tweets, but none of her books. Then this summer I went to the ALA conference and got a signed ARC of The Name of the Star<\/em>, which I reviewed here<\/a>, but in a nutshell: I adored it. Then I went back and read Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes<\/em>: also great. I was on the library waiting list for The Last Little Blue Envelope<\/em> all summer and just got it last week. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked it even more than I liked Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

MJ has also been tweeting a lot to promote The Name of the Star<\/em>, which comes out soon. Everyone who pre-orders it from Books of Wonder<\/a> gets a signed copy, a personal thank-you tweet, and these custom refrigerator poetry magnets:<\/p>\n

\"Maureen<\/a>
Click to view the larger version. So cool!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So she’s been tweeting about this a ton, and I’ve been hemming and hawing. I mean, I already own a signed copy of this book<\/em>. But I really wanted those fridge magnets. So cool! And I can always give my second copy of Name of the Star<\/em> to someone else, since it was a really great book. Yesterday I broke down and pre-ordered it.<\/p>\n

\"You're<\/a>
You're welcome, Maureen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And Maureen Johnson thanked me on Twitter!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I guess the point of this entry is: if you are good at Twitter, I will probably buy your book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I may have mentioned before, I am a fan of Maureen Johnson. She’s smart, funny, and just plain weird. But I was not always a fan! The first time I heard of her was many years ago, on a musical theatre message board I frequent. If you did not know, Maureen Johnson is the… Continue reading The Power of Maureen Johnson’s Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,111,140,7,8],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maureen-johnson","tag-name-of-the-star","tag-twitter","tag-ya-lit","tag-young-adult-lit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/whyablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}