Kristi
The Story Siren
http://www.thestorysiren.com/
Yes, I’m back again. I know I can hardly believe it myself! Anyway, on to the topic, “How do you approach authors?
Well, if I want an author for an interview or a guest post. I usually just email them. Most of the time, I mean 99.9% of the time I’ve gotten a response. Whether to kindly decline or to ask for more information. Now that I have a regular feature of author visits I even have some email me to ask to stop by which is pretty cool.
I’ve never asked an author to send me a book to review. I know a lot of other reviewers do, but I’m just not comfortable doing it. I have asked two publishers for a book however, and I actually received the review copies, so it would probably work for an author as well. I don’t think it is wrong to ask, I know that some authors prefer it even, but I’m just the type of person that would rather be asked than to do the asking. I guess I must have an underlying fear of rejection or something.
But I’m going to agree with Book Chic and say that it never hurts to ask. I mean the worse that can happen is that they’ll say no or that you won’t hear back from them.
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3 comments:
hey Kristi!! nice to see you here. either i missed your first post or i have short term memory loss (both are pretty likely).
i agree with the asking for books thing. i feel unconfotable to ask for books because then i feel weird. i generally take what i get (if it sounds good), adn that's usually enough to keep my happy :D
I ask for books all the time, though I've been only doing it every so often lately with something I really want cuz my TBR pile is HUGE. I used to be very scared about it, but authors are usually really nice about getting a review copy to me. I do know it's not for everyone though.
Great post!! :)
I hate asking for review books, but I do do it sometimes, but I always feel weird afterwords. I did get rejected once, actually a little bit ago, and ever since then I just feel really strange of doing it. So I haven't done it since. I'm just trying to get my blog out there as much as I can so authors will come by and offer there books.
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