What’s The Twitter Virtuous Circle? (Patent Pending!)

As most anyone who happens to stumble over here probably knows, I’m pretty active on Twitter. A few weeks ago, a couple of my tweeps began talking about getting together early in the new year for lunch. Since I had already scheduled an early January appearance on NY1 Cable, I asked said tweeps if they’d be up for lunch on Thursday, January 7th.

The rest will shortly be history, as those tweeps told two friends, and they told two friends, and, well — this social-networking thing actually works! Tomorrow our 30-person group will gather; here’s what I told them all in an email today:

With so many individual pundits offering year-end predictions on what’s in store for publishing in 2010, a group of 30 Twitterati — all with a literary bent — have decided to gather this Thursday for lunch at Round Table Room at NYC’s Algonquin Hotel to bring our perspective to bear on the future of book publishing. 

Christening ourselves the “Virtuous Circle,” a group of authors, publishers, marketers, bloggers and booksellers will move our daily Twitter conversation to this famed real-life venue, where we plan to discuss the many forecasts about the future of our various crafts and roles in the publishing universe and propose unique predictions for the coming year.In addition, we plan on leveraging Twitter to put together this meeting of Literati Twitterati on a quarterly basis.  (Tweeting is fantastic, but there is no substitute for face-to-face over a long literary lunch.)

This is already slated to be a regular event. More news (and tweets!) will follow tomorrow. In the meantime, tell us what you think about this idea. We’re open to constructive criticism, but even moreso to great suggestions about how to use our powers to the Virtuous, not the Vicious. 

But I’m still claiming status as Dottie. (I know @JulieKlam is going to fight me for that…)