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10 Things To Help Your Local Author

  • Mar. 4th, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Angel of Death Book One of the Chosen
This was written be Farzana Doctor, author of Stealing Nasreen (Inanna, 2007) and since she has stated that it would be fine to share this, I thought to do so. It's been written to support Canadian authors but the principles are sound and can easily be applied to anyone anywhere.

Karen Dales
Author
"Angel of Death: Book One of the Chosen"
Release - Summer 2009
http://thechosenchronicles.com
karendales@thechosenchronicles.com
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Please feel free to circulate this! I wrote an earlier version of this when Stealing Nasreen first came out (and friends and family asked what they could do to help)...Feel free to add comments with your ideas.

10 Things You Can Do To Support Canadian Authors

1. Buy Canadian books! Check out a variety, including those from small presses. Give them as birthday, Christmas, Kwaanza and Hanukkah presents. (And don’t forget Valentine’s, Grandparents’ Day and International Day of the Consumer too!)

2. Tell 2 (or 20 friends) about your favourite book. Begin conversations that start with, “Hey! I just read this really fabulous book by an amazing Canadian author…” Carry it with you on the subway, leave it on your desk and other prominent places where people will see it.

3. Tell school or municipal librarians about a book you love. Place a hold on it until it's available(many libraries use hold statistics to determine the popularity of a book and will order more copies based on this).

4. Ask your local bookstore to order in the book if it’s not already on the shelf. Suggest they invite the author in for a reading. Support independent bookstores whenever you can.

5. Write a book reviews on your blog, for the local paper, or your employee newsletter. Many online bookstores and book blogs have options where you can offer a two sentence review or a ‘thumbs up’ recommendation.

6. When authors leave promotional postcards around, take a few and (actually) mail them to your friends!

7. If you are in a book club, or know someone who is, suggest the book. Sometimes, authors will visit book clubs, so make sure to invite them.

8. Suggest an author as a keynote speaker at your next annual general meeting, speakers’ series or special event.

9. Use social networking sites to promote the book or author. Mention them in “status updates” or in special notes. Look for author groups or fan pages and join them.

10. Vote for politicians who care about the arts and who support arts funding.

--Farzana Doctor, author of Stealing Nasreen (Inanna, 2007)
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Karen Dales
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"Angel of Death: Book One of the Chosen"
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