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

[Percy Potter]

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

Yes.

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

Yes.

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?

Perhaps.

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

Yes.

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?

Yes.

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.]

Perhaps not clothing but bookmarks and bookplates yes.

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

Of course I would of course.

13) Hire an assistant?

Does my Mom count?

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

Nah. Fans can see me as the real me. The person who created the enjoyable read they favored.

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)?

Sure

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

I'm naturally shy so...self-conciously no

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

Yes

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.]

Follow fans on twitter, don't friend those on facebook, and follow fans blogs.

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

One or two or three.

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

Not too much. Maybe the poor or disabled.

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

Of course I would. Readers deserve it.

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

Of course! It would show that they appreciated my writing as much as I appreciated them for reading it.

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

Yes and no. The people support me and that's salary enough.