Follow Friday – Angela Crocker
This week my Follow Friday goes to Angela Crocker, she is a great woman, a member of the Book Broads, and a soon to be published author.
I connected with Angela for the first time via twitter, this is oddly coincidental (And oh how I want to use the word ironic here- but I know that would be improper usage of irony.) considering she is currently writing a book about social networking ( The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Social Network) that is scheduled to be released in Feb. 2011. I can’t wait to get my signed copy. 🙂
We met for the first time in person at SiWC this past year (Oct. 2009) and we really clicked. Wait, I’m seeing a theme in my Follow Friday’s – I know and follow a lot of people related to SiWC. 😉 What can I say, it’s an awesome conference.
I very much enjoyed spending time with Angela and getting to know her more. I’ve since had the opportunity to share dinner with her and get to know her further through social networking.
I chose Angela for my #FF this week for many reason, first off, I consider her my friend, and friends are vitally important in life. Weather you write, or work a nine to five desk job, or do both or neither, you need to have friends. Life was not meant to be lived in isolation. Friends keep us grounded through the day to day issues that come up and to help us laugh and enjoy the moments that we want to celebrate. Also their great for helping us face our evil doppelgangers when they pop up. Those things should NEVER be fought alone. (So Angela, how are you with evil redheads?)
Recently, Angela and I participated in a Word Count Challenge together and while neither of us reached the “ultimate†goal we set for ourselves (darn illnesses) it was a lot of fun to check in with each other and to be challenged. Not only that but I know the challenge gave me a great start on my new YA novel and I hope it got Angela a great start on her project as well. 🙂
Angela is also a wonderful example of using social networking to interact with PEOPLE – not just to sell THINGS. This deeply impresses me and makes me think she is the perfect person to be writing a book about the subject. I’m glad the publisher thought so too. I love it when the people who should be writing the books are the people actually writing the books – it makes me smile.
So on this beautiful Friday I recommend to you my friend Angela, who not only knows about, but uses, Social Networking to its best and fullest advantage.