While many authors have embraced social media and enjoy being available to readers, others feel that their only responsibility to the reader is to write good books. Novelist Joanne Harris sparked this conversation when she suggested a writer’s manifesto for the digital age Monday night at a literature festival in England. Among her points were, “I promise not to be aloof whenever you reach out to me–be that on social media or outside, in the real world. But remember that I’m human too–and some days I’m impatient, or tired, or sometimes I just run out of time.”
Read her full manifesto (which also contains items about writing diverse characters and never selling out), over at the Guardian.
