Writers: If you were published...(Random writerly questions)?

[Joss]

If you were published, would you:

1) Offer to read and blurb writers soon-to-be published manuscripts?

2) Have a blog dedicated (keyword) to offering advice to aspiring authors?

3) Have a Twitter account, Author blog, or author Facebook fan page?

4) Read the good, bad, and ugly reviews for your book?

5) Criticize other published authors publicly without being questioned or baited by fans or an interviewer?

6) Do a blog tour if you're asked?

7) Do a regular national tour if you're asked?

8) Sign copies of your books for the local bookstore so fans can get signed copies when they buy the book?

9) Let readers send you their books so you can sign them and mail them back?

10) Do an overseas book tour if your foreign publisher asked (assuming you've sold foreign rights)?

11) Give out bookmarks, bookplates, clothing branded with your book's title (like hoodies that some authors giveaway), pins, or other tangible items branded with your book to fans? [You'd have to pay for it.]

12) Give away books to all your family and friends who wanted one?

13) Hire an assistant?

14) Hire a publicist? [Publishers don't do it all or might not put a lot of money into it.]

15) Communicate with fans regularly on Facebook and Twitter? [Some authors do, some don't.]

16) Give exclusives (interviews, info about upcoming books, or whatever.) to fansites dedicated to your book and/or characters?

17) Hold a contest to have a fan name a character in your book (including using their own name)?

18) Have family and friends go to review sites and review your book?

19) Quote the good fan reviews your book has received on your Facebook, Twitter, blog, tumbler, etc.

20) Follow fans on twitter, Friend fans on Facebook who send you a request, or follow fans blogs who follow you? [I know this is kind of confusing, hehe, but if you have one of these things then you'll know what I mean.]

21) Have a list of fan sites on your website?

22) Give away books to random fans for no reason?

23) Read all your fan mail, including physical letters and email?

24) Accept gifts from fans? Including the innocent like a fan's drawing of your characters to someone's homemade pie.

25) Attend a book club discussion of your book if asked by the book club? If so, would you charge?



Sorry, if you were answered this question and I deleted it. It wasn't showing up in the questions list. :/
Next time, I'll try to keep the questions to 15 or fewer. o.O lol.
Wow. I'm so surprised at the number of people who wouldn't pay it forward with Q1.
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I mean, nothing wrong with it if that's not what you want to do or something you wouldn't have time to do or don't care to do, etc.
In response to the people who don't know what a blog tour is: There are book review blogs that have large followings (or authors whose blogs have large followings) and they offer up space for authors to write posts on the blog (guest blogging) about some topic (usually of the author's choosing). This is a way for the author to get potentially increase sales, new readership, and get their name out there. I think guest blogging is the best way to describe it. Going on a blog tour means you're guest blogging on different blog sites around the same time to get your name and book out there.
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I should say that with blog tours, you're not necessarily writing an article for the blog, you might be giving an interview for the blog.