I was over at Today's Adventure, reading her Cream of the Crop feature, and stumbled on a link to Lisa Shearin's site to a blog post (2/24) on how to support your favorite authors. Lisa had reposted the article with permission from Diana Pharaoh Francis. It's an amazing article. I recommend you go read it.
In the meantime, here are ten things that the article says you can do to support your favorite author:
- Buy NEW books every time you can for yourself, and for gifts.
- Tell your friends.
- Post your reviews everywhere you can.
- Recommend the author's work to your book group.
- Email the author to tell them what you think.
- Ask for the books you're looking for in the bookstore.
- Recommend your favorite authors when you see others perusing the shelves.
- Face your favorites so that the whole cover shows, (be careful not to cover other authors)
- Link to your favorite authors' sites on your website.
- Go to book signings!
I feel like I can do a better job of 3, 5, 6, and 9, so look for more of that around here for my favorites.
I just want to reiterate that this list is not from my brain, but that of Diana Pharaoh Francis... I don't even pretend to take credit for it, but thought it warranted sharing here. This is a paraphrased version of her article that is much, much better than my little list!
[Via Today's Adventure via Lisa Shearin via Diana Pharaoh Francis]
2 Comments:
Really cool list, thanks for posting.
YAY! So happy you reposted this. I'm going to try and do better on several of these points as well.
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