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

[Vengeful Strumpet]

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

2) Have a blog dedicated (keyword) to offering advice to aspiring authors?
Yes, I would.

3) Have a Twitter account, Author blog, or author Facebook fan page?
I'd have a blog, but nothing else.

4) Read the good, bad, and ugly reviews for your book?
Yes. If only to learn what I was doing wrong or what I could improve on. Bad reviews are the best you can get, they teach your something.

5) Criticize other published authors publicly without being questioned or baited by fans or an
interviewer?
I wouldn't butt kiss, but I wouldn't completely trash another author, even if I didn't like them. I wouldn't like it if someone did that to me, so I wouldn't do it to someone else.

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

7) Do a regular national tour if you're asked?
Not regularly, 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?
Yep.

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

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.]
No. I don't want my work to turn into a novelty item. Bookmarks, maybe. That's it.

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

13) Hire an assistant?
Nah.

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.]
Other than a blog, no. I'd talk to them through that.

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?
No, that's cheap.

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.]
I'd follow the blogs, but not all of them.

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

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

23) Read all your fan mail, including physical letters and email?
Yes. It irritates me when famous people don't, I don't care how busy they are.

24) Accept gifts from fans? Including the innocent like a fan's drawing of your characters to someone's homemade pie.
Yes. Within reason. Drawing are fine, little presents, but not an actual gift that's bee paid for.

25) Attend a book club discussion of your book if asked by the book club? If so, would you charge?
Yes. I wouldn't charge.