Ten Ways to Support an Author

My book ZARINA DIVIDED is out!!!

My book ZARINA DIVIDED releases today!!!

Here are TEN ways you can support authors like me:

1. Buy their Book (Pre-orders are great because you are showing the publisher your interest). If you didn’t pre-order, just order the book. It’s never too late! No space on your bookshelf? Buy their e-book or audio book! Buy something! Nothing says you like the author more than actual numbers of SALES.

2. Review their book (Amazon, Goodreads , your social media). I attended a webinar where we were told to strive to get at least 50 Amazon reviews for visibility.

3. Borrow their book from the library (this also helps put it on the librarian's radar!)

4. Donate a book to a classroom or Little Free Library

5. Feeling generous? Donate a class set of books to a classroom or a school library (see #18 for bulk orders.)!

6. Talk about their book. Celebrate their successes!* Writing and publishing can be isolating.

7. Reach out to the author and tell them you liked their book! Even better, send the author a photo of a person reading the book or fan mail. Or if you see their book in the wild (think airport! bookstore! top shelf of the library! TAKE THE PHOTO AND SEND IT. Us authors wish we could be everywhere but, alas we can’t)

8. Interview an author (I love my recent interview with @Heidi Fiedler on how motherhood and creativity intersect

9. Invite an author for an author visit. You can see my Speaker Profile and invite me on here ( I am being selective with what author visits I am committing to these days as I have a 2 year old at home.)

10. Try to go to their book launch in person or virtually! Signed copies here !

    
    

    *Here’s a success I am especially proud of, this and the fact that this story is loosely based on my real grandmother Zarina’s story :)

    

    

    Want to see more? I share behind-the-scenes of an author’s book launch today on my Instagram. It may be more regular than you think :)

**I did attempt an audio voiceover and didn’t realize it was so muffly. Whoops. But listen if you can handle it! It gets less muffly once I start listing out the points!