I need to tweet something fabulous/amazing/wacky/inspirational every day (or close enough) about Fire

[Daniel Ehrenhaft]

So, according to Media Bistro, Sourcebooks' very own Sara Kase and I are two of the Best Book Editors to follow on twitter. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/twitter/the_best_book_editors_...
Yikes. I am flattered to have been picked, but now I am feeling an (anxious) obligation to live up to the list. Fire authors and readers: What would have me post of interest and note? Suggestions are encouraged, even more so than for the Tiger Beat set list. Really. Help an editor out! :-) Jabberwocky authors (Lisa and Laura, I'm talking to you) please join the fun!

[Pam van Hylckama Vlieg]

Dan,

You should go with something funny from your day. Whether the most ridiculous hook you have read this year and so forth. It doesn't need to be from your job. Sharing with others news you get in the Pub industry and using your twitter to have those who follow you (and I do *Stalks*) get an education on what it is like to be an editor. People are interested in the day to day workings and do not forget to be a bit personable. If your puppy pees in your shoe and you can find a sarcastic yet hilarious way to say that we do care :P

[Lisa and Laura Roecker]

Holy crap, Dianne!!! That's amazing news! You have to keep us posted on how the whole process works. And, um, when your script is turned into an amazing movie and you get invited to the MTV Movie Awards, will you try to get us tickets? It's kind of our life's ambition to attend. Screw the Oscars, I'm all about the Moonmen. We figure that knowing all of these cool YA authors whose books will inevitably get made into blockbuster movies we might actually have a shot at being seat fillers or something.

[Jessica Milar]

What's of interest to newbie writers are contests, contests contests! If you could post about different contests you're having (like winning the teenfire members musical CD) ha! I kid! I kid!
But if you guys can get together and have a band, then so can teenfire members. I'm creating the techno beat as I write this. Either that or I can make up a rock tune, since "I Hear the Dead" (take off on D's book We hear the dead) would be a great song title.

[Daniel Ehrenhaft]

Diane, congrats!! I will definitely tweet that!! Very, very cool! :-) I'm so excited I might have to breathe into a paper bag. Although I try to save all my paper bags for dog poop. TMI?

[Candace Ganger]

Dianne that's amazing! I wish I had news like that! Let's see...Oh, okay Dan. This is bigger than big. You might want to sit down. I got to...wait for it...wait...SLEEP IN today! (3yo woke daddy today and I'm a little to stoked)
On a side note, I've finished a rough draft of my latest WIP which isn't nearly as exciting as sleeping in.

[Dianne Salerni]

Dan, since you asked -- tonight I did get some exciting news.

The producer who optioned We Hear the Dead for film is pleased with my latest draft of the screenplay. I have a few small changes to make, and then she plans to start pitching the script to various people in Hollywood, coinciding her pitch with the release of the book in May.

It's still a long way from a movie, but I'm pretty excited. I need to breathe into a paper bag or something.

[Lorettajo Kapinos]

Well, since you asked, Dan. I am pretty glamorous, at least in the ear of the listener. I began writing because, among other reasons, a co-worker said to me, while shaking his head, "Loretta, I'm pretty sure what you do isn't nearly as interesting as you make it sound." And I realized right there that embellishment isn't different from fictionalization, a form of entertainment that I might just be enjoy! And so began the glamorous love affair with my keyboard, words and young adults.

[adele griffin]

Hey! Congrats on what we already knew! yep i like personal stuff, too-- and alos how you keep thinking like a teen t/o your day-- with one foot in your personal history, and one in what's hot for future YA. I love finding out what you're trendspotting, editing, reading, and what you're writing of course. and if you're not feeling talkative, we're all cool to learn what you had for lunch. (which to me is kinda the fun of twitter!)

[Joy Preble]

Our glamorous lives, eh? Oh yes, such glamor. I am typing this during my conference period at the public high school where I teach until my writing gig becomes so glamorous that I can afford to lose the day job. Not real blog worthy. But the school paper just wrote a kick butt article about upcoming Haunted and quoted me correctly. So that was cool. And I am reading your very own Samara Brooks novel and so I'd like to know if you ever played blackjack for money when you were her age. But now back to the glamorous business of grading Julius Caesar ad projects. Next product: "Blood be gone" Slogan: "Have your ex-ruler's blood in your best toga?" This is what I do when I'm not doing cool author stuff like writing and hanging with uber cool people at Books of Wonder on 3/18. And by the way!!! Super secret guest list? I'd love to know that!

[Daniel Ehrenhaft]

Thanks, everyone, for these comments! Super-helpful. :-) I clearly have my work cut out for me. I wish the job of an acquisitions editor was all fabulous events and meeting famous people... in truth, the day-to-day is a lot less glamorous--not that it isn't awesome. I'm basically paid to read. But perhaps I was also unclear: I want to hear from you authors and aspiring authors about YOUR glamorous lives. And I will tweet that on behalf of Fire, in addition to my own tweets. Keep the comments coming!