* in my Fresh Prince voice* Well, maybe I shouldn’t. Yeahhhh, of course I should.
I’ve been playing around with idea of a street team for months. It always seemed like so much work that I just didn’t have time for. However, after reading and talking to authors, I decided to give it a go and spent all weekend deciding what I wanted my street team to do and how I’d like it to function.
Before I ever decided to write a novel, I was an avid reader. I read any and everything I could find…my books, my mother’s books, my sister’s books…you get the idea.
I own over 200 hardcover books, 150 paperbacks and my Ebook library has reached a point where I’d have to read a book a day for the next 3-4 years to read them all.
Continue reading “Authors and Readers…can’t we all just get along?”
A few days I ago, I put out a tweet that A) I didn’t think anyone actually saw or read, and B) didn’t actually think the few people who did see it would actually hold me accountable for it.
I was wrong…so very very wrong.
But I admit, I one-click free books damn near obsessively. Plus I get ARCs and eARCs from my author friends. I pay for a lot of books too. The 800 books in the “Manage My Kindle” section definitely were not all free. That being said, I know why authors give their books away and most of the time, their generosity is not appreciated. Authors live and die by their reviews so I’m going to step up, wave my INDIE flag proudly and help out the authors who so generously let me read their book for free.
Now, since I’ve committed to reading and reviewing the free books I download, pretty much on a daily basis, I’m gonna have to step my reading game up. I think you should commit with me with.
Can you commit to reading and reviewing one free book a week? Let’s try it together!
Here are my January books:
Week 1 – The Undertaker by William F Brown
Week 2 – The Geronimo Breach by Russell Blake
Week 3 – The Book Waitress (Book 1, The Book Waitress Series) by Deena Remiel (and I love her! I don’t know why this book hasn’t been read and reviewed yet!)
Week 4 – An Angel’s Justice by Danica Winters – this book is only 26 pages so I’ll add another this week
Unsuitable Men by Nia Forrester
Add your 4 books in the comments below. At the end of the month, I’ll treat everyone who finishes AND leaves a review for their book to a special gift. Maybe I’ll set up a skype or google hangout and we can chat.
I’m being 100% honest when I say I have no idea when I first heard of Gary Clark Jr. I simply can’t remember if I read about him on someone else’s blog (John Mayer’s perhaps) or if someone recommended him to me which is how I discover new music because I do not listen to the radio.
I remember getting an email from Amazon about some digital albums for five bucks and I had about $10 in digital download credits that were going to expire so I browsed their offer, saw a few albums that looked interesting and downloaded them. There were three albums that I downloaded that day…Blue Train by John Coltrane, the Coyote Ugly soundtrack (don’t judge me), and Gary Clark Jr.’s Blak and Blu.