Literary twitterati: from hand-drawn spreadsheets to hay

Our weekly round-up of tweets from the book world

The time Alistair MacLeod won the IMPAC <a href="https://twitter.com/DublinLitAward">@DublinLitAward</a> and danced a Cape Breton reel on the carpet of Dublin Castle: <a href="http://t.co/j5INuY34DO">http://t.co/j5INuY34DO</a>

RT <a href="https://twitter.com/openculture">@openculture</a> How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet <a href="http://t.co/b4bf5BuFFE">http://t.co/b4bf5BuFFE</a> <a href="http://t.co/ZjtGxXvIbm">pic.twitter.com/ZjtGxXvIbm</a>

In my version of US vs Belgium, both lose. <a href="http://t.co/Lti33nIDH9">pic.twitter.com/Lti33nIDH9</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

Paxo on Great Britain's Great War at Kells on Friday: <a href="https://t.co/PXFXcGfYMZ">https://t.co/PXFXcGfYMZ</a> <a href="http://t.co/abI4559gga">pic.twitter.com/abI4559gga</a>

Great article on how to handle book promo from <a href="https://twitter.com/libranwriter">@libranwriter</a> <a href="http://t.co/1ySU3qRaC6">http://t.co/1ySU3qRaC6</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/amwriting?src=hash">#amwriting</a>

Poem of the Day: Paula Meehan's "The Pattern" <a href="http://t.co/ojVnvrMBHS">http://t.co/ojVnvrMBHS</a>

I keep getting Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson mixed up. Is it possible they are the same person? Has anyone ever seen them together?

Heading off to the <a href="https://twitter.com/wcorklitfest">@wcorklitfest</a> in a week's time. Nick Laird and I reading at Bantry Library, Tues 8th July at 17:00 <a href="http://t.co/31T0I01UWW">http://t.co/31T0I01UWW</a>

Read a short story from Dermot Healy, 'Along the Lines', from our book, 'Silver Threads of Hope', via <a href="https://twitter.com/sineadgleeson">@sineadgleeson</a> <a href="http://t.co/XwNduCzNFA">http://t.co/XwNduCzNFA</a>

"It was the place where Max got his head stuck in a cake pan" Lovely LETTER FROM THE ARCHIVE: NORA EPHRON'S APARTMENT <a href="http://t.co/mmFxV3tpl1">http://t.co/mmFxV3tpl1</a>