twitspammers

I'm seriously considering unfollowing @litopia on Twitter, simply because of the number of spam-followers it seems to attract to my account. I'm regularly followed by people who have nothing in common with me but @litopia, but who do seem to have a book to pimp. Apparently people who follow @litopia *must* be interested in anyone who is an author with a book to sell.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong with my marketing. What I should be doing is following any author I can find on Twitter, regardless of their genre, in the hope that they and their followers will run out and buy my own books...

ETA: apparently it's Spam-follow Saturday -- just had the third one of the morning.

Fanlore continues to amuse/bemuse me

Someone has selected an illo to illustrate the Fanlore article on the acronym "BUARA". Looking at the history, it was added by someone who from other pages is enthusiastic about adding B7 material but does not appear to be all that familiar with B7 fandom and its terminology. The image was then removed as being not actually appropriate for the article. It was then added back on the grounds that someone had clarified that the R stands for all forms of "whumping", and not just what the R stands for in the acronym.

I don't actually agree with the latter assertion, but that's not what amuses/bemuses me. The illo in question does not illustrate any form of whumping at all. It is an illo for an entirely consensual D/s scenario. I should know, I wrote the story in question...