Read And Heed

Guys, I’m trying to get caught up on a bunch of projects before going to Portugal at the end of the month.  Fortunately my friend Mike Kabongo has written the post I would have written, if I had time today.

There is nothing more frustrating to me than finding a great book, reading one or two more by the author and then finding out they are no longer being published. Sometimes its just because I have found a writer who has passed away, decided they don’t wish to go through all that is need to get published, or maybe the publisher folds. But if its a sales issue, I and other readers who like that writer are at least partly responsible. Thanks to the fabulous suricattus  I ran across a great blog post on what you can do to help authors you like.

That blog post by Jody Hedlund is a great start and filled with pretty easy things readers can do to help writers they like succeed. One important way to help that I mentioned at Ravencon, but don’t see talked about enough is pretty simple but may take as much as three minutes of time is probably the most important thing we fans can do to help our fellow readers find books we like, and help publishers and writers get books to shelves. It is fortunately pretty simple: preorder.

So, without further ado “go here and read“