Just when you thought you couldn't possibly have room for another social networking site, along comes filedbyauthor.com.

I've heard this site described as the IMDB for books, but the set up reminds me of Facebook, circa 2004. Maybe you won't find everyone you know and love on it, but you can still waste hours upon hours finding authors you know, the books they've written, other people who like them, events they're attending...you get the idea.

There's even a wall where you can post love letters or a bit of honest critique directly to your chosen author. Whether or not they actually see what you've written is another story, but I'm sure it's good to get stuff like that out of your system, right?

Sign up is free for both readers and authors, and the site has an extremely attractive, easy and intuitive interface. And who doesn't like a space where you can completely geek out over authors such as Frank Herbert or H.L. Mencken? Frankly, I'm surprised there hasn't been a group devoted to Stephenie Meyer yet. I'm sure one of you guys could fix that, though.

The homepage shows recently updated profiles, featured authors and the top searched authors on the site, to give you a taste of what you can find. The site also hosts a blog, filedbyblog.com, which keeps up-to-date with news in the publishing world.

And I'm already on it, so really, what are you waiting for? (Especially you authors! Talk about free publicity!)

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