How do you learn about new books by your favorite author or of your favorite series??

[Bill]

What I would like is a site where you could input your favorite authors or series and you'd get emailed updates whenever a new book was published. Personally, I think Amazon should do this.

How do your keep up with your favorite authors and series?

[Greyweather]

Pretty much every sci-fi and fantasy author seems to have their own blog these days, so if I want to stay on top of what a specific author is doing that is how I go about it.

If I just want to stay on top of the overall zeitgeist, I just hang around the "Liturature" forum at http://asoiaf.westeros.org/

[Bill]

Yeh, that's what I do now, but it is not very efficient, especially since I am on dialup.

I am hoping I am missing something on Amazon. I get emails of new DVD and Blu-Ray releases from them. Of course there are many more books, so it would not be practical unless limited in some way by users.

[LaTrica]

Amazon used to do this. I remember being able to ask for updates on my favorite authors and getting emails.

Right now I just look up my favorite authors on Amazon or Fantastic Fiction.

[Jim]

If you become a fan of an author here on GR, you get links to their blogs & updates on their writing progress.

[Libby]

I think some publishers have a sign up for author updates that will announce new works. For example, Harper Collins has Author Tracker -

http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/...

[Janny]

A lovely site for fantasy, very complete, showing current and forthcoming titles:

http://www.fantasyliterature.net

[Schnaucl]

I follow some authors on goodreads or livejournal. I've also set up a google calendar for new releases. I looked up a bunch of authors at the end of last year and put in the release date for the next book in any series I'm following (when I pick up a new series in the course of the year I check for the date of the next book after I finish the latest book in the series).

Sometimes I see what Amazon recommends and that will let me know about a book I was unaware of.

Other books are mentioned by friends or in a goodreads discussion or are added to someone's TBR shelf on goodreads.

[James]

A good source is Locus Magazine, every quarter the list forth comming books.They cover the Science Fiction and Fantasy fields and some Horror. There are ads every month by the publishers. They also have a web site at
http://locusmag.com/

[[deleted user]]

umm, here??? you can get book recomendations (im a really bad speller) what kind of books do you like? i can probely find one for you.

[Jason]

I learn about new books by friends... we all usually have the same taste in authors. So word gets around to one of use eventually.

[Carolyn]

I stop in and visit the home page of Fantastic Fiction. The entire page is new releases, listed by author & grouped by genre, and a column on the right side of the page lists 'coming soon' releases by date. You can sort them by HC, pb or audio.

If I'm looking for something by a specific author, I just go to that author's page on FF.