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

[Ritsuka ♥ Grell]

1) Offer to read and blurb writers soon-to-be published manuscripts?
~ No

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

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

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

5) Criticize other published authors publicly without being questioned or baited by fans or an interviewer?
~ No

6) Do a blog tour if you're asked?
~ No

7) Do a regular national tour if you're asked?
~ No

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

9) Let readers send you their books so you can sign them and mail them back?
~ No

10) Do an overseas book tour if your foreign publisher asked (assuming you've sold foreign rights)?
~ No

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.]
~ Sure

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

13) Hire an assistant?
~ No

14) Hire a publicist? [Publishers don't do it all or might not put a lot of money into it.]
~ No

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

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

17) Hold a contest to have a fan name a character in your book (including using their own name)?
~ No

18) Have family and friends go to review sites and review your book?
~ Only if it is truthful.

19) Quote the good fan reviews your book has received on your Facebook, Twitter, blog, tumbler, etc.
~ No

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.]
~ No

21) Have a list of fan sites on your website?
~ No

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

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

24) Accept gifts from fans? Including the innocent like a fan's drawing of your characters to someone's homemade pie.
~ I wouldn't accept a homemade pie, but something innocent like a drawing I would accept.

25) Attend a book club discussion of your book if asked by the book club? If so, would you charge?
~ No.