Station Identification
Every now and then, I do a periodic update on my Web presence, which social networking sites I'm favoring and Internet-based odds and ends. Looks like it's that time again ...
VictorInfante.com remains the primary portal between my real life and various people seeking information about that. It also serves to confuse people looking for information on notorious international arms dealer Victor "The Jackal" Infante, who is not, to my knowledge, a relative. Same holds true for that unfortunate homicide victim in Los Angeles a few months ago. I'm not him, nor do I believe I'm related. VictorInfante.com has information about my poetry and other writing, along with a link to my blog on Livejournal. Which you're currently reading. (Although you may well be reading it on Google Reader, my GoodReads.com author's profile or, of course, Facebook.)
I still have presences on a number of social networking sites, and have even found things to do with most of them. My Facebook account is probably the most active, as I use that both to keep in touch with real-life friends and to promote my writing. My MySpace account gets slightly less love, as I mostly use it to listen to bands for work. Which is an awesome job description, I admit. (I actually think ReverbNation is better for consuming music, but MySpace still seems the most efficient tool for a journalist covering music. Go figure.) I keep a LinkedIn account for strictly professional use, and I have to say, it's proven useful on occasion. I have a Twitter account, but only use it sporadically. There is also a Twitter account for my fictional character, Whitney Bierce, whose first story, Baby Detonate For Me, is making the rounds in search of a publisher. Her second story is under way, forcing me to wonder if maybe it's unwise to invest one's self so much in an as-yet unpublished fictional character. But it's fun, so there you are.
Of course, a number of my own projects have Web presences all of their own. The November 3rd Club is the online literary journal of political writing which I used to edit, and which is currently archived online at the place linked to. There are still extant Livejournal, Facebook and MySpace presences for it, which I'll put to use when I'm done building the next thing. The Weekend Starts Now, the e-mail newsletter of arts & entertainment events that I edit for the Telegram & Gazette, doesn't have any fancy Web presences yet, but I'd love it if you subscribed to it. It's free!
Lastly, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention my esteemed publisher, Write Bloody Publishing, who has any number of Web presences all over the place, particularly on Facebook and MySpace, which are good places to follow if you want to keep track of the press' doings. And why wouldn't you? Write Bloody does nifty things. If you're interested in buying my book, City of Insomnia, the best place to do it is straight from them. But if you have some gift certificate or an aversion to PayPal or something, you can buy it directly from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Powell's. And supposedly sometime soon, Borders, thanks to WB's new distributor.
OK. That's enough. Now you know where to find me or, conversely, avoid me with impunity.
