"I received the following email: "Good news! I just today found out I'm getting a book published! It's a young adult novel set in Indianapolis, and the publishing company is a small group called Wild Rose Press. My book will be in their Climbing Rose section. :)
Pam"
That's one way to be a part of the writing community. Let us know what's going on, your successes or even failures if they would help someone else. In this case, Pam has found an outlet for her creative writing and shared their name with us. Someone is buying Romance stories. Do you write in the appropriate genre to give Wild Rose a sniff?
Another way to demonstrate the camaraderie is to show up at book signings, and not just for best selling authors. Heck, they don't need it and a good many find those events tedious and can't wait to bolt for the door. I hope I don't get that way. Well, I hope I get to be a best selling author but I also hope that I will always feel the excitement and passion.
But assuming those who are on top of the mountain will have sufficient support, let's help out those still climbing. When someone in your local community has a signing, turn out to support her. There is no place so lonely as the signing table in Borders when no one is asking for a copy of your book. Writers should help fill the place. Drag your spouse along or your kids. Get your neighbors to show up. If the author has penned a story that your best buddy happens to enjoy reading, tell them about the signing. If the story isn't to your liking, you can always donate it to the library.
If there isn't a crowd, stay and chat with the author. You know the drill: How did you get started? Who is your agent? :-) Chit chat could lead to a new friend in the business or maybe a contact.
No one is going to help new authors except other authors. Publishers will help once you are under contract but in most instances, they won't be there every time you make an appearance somewhere. But writers are everywhere.
Congrats to Pam. Hopefully she will let us know when the book is released and we will all show up to wish her well.
That's one way to be a part of the writing community. Let us know what's going on, your successes or even failures if they would help someone else. In this case, Pam has found an outlet for her creative writing and shared their name with us. Someone is buying Romance stories. Do you write in the appropriate genre to give Wild Rose a sniff?
Another way to demonstrate the camaraderie is to show up at book signings, and not just for best selling authors. Heck, they don't need it and a good many find those events tedious and can't wait to bolt for the door. I hope I don't get that way. Well, I hope I get to be a best selling author but I also hope that I will always feel the excitement and passion.
But assuming those who are on top of the mountain will have sufficient support, let's help out those still climbing. When someone in your local community has a signing, turn out to support her. There is no place so lonely as the signing table in Borders when no one is asking for a copy of your book. Writers should help fill the place. Drag your spouse along or your kids. Get your neighbors to show up. If the author has penned a story that your best buddy happens to enjoy reading, tell them about the signing. If the story isn't to your liking, you can always donate it to the library.
If there isn't a crowd, stay and chat with the author. You know the drill: How did you get started? Who is your agent? :-) Chit chat could lead to a new friend in the business or maybe a contact.
No one is going to help new authors except other authors. Publishers will help once you are under contract but in most instances, they won't be there every time you make an appearance somewhere. But writers are everywhere.
Congrats to Pam. Hopefully she will let us know when the book is released and we will all show up to wish her well.
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