My readers are awesome, and you should hang out!

In the days of yore, we readers waited in the streets for our favorite authors to drop another book. We didn't have acesss to publisher release schedules. At best, we got to see our authors at a convention or maybe go fan club news in the (snail) mail. Otherwise, we just had to hope and trust another book was coming.

Book clubs and message boards allowed us to collect in small numbers to compare and gush about our favorite books, but we were limited. In the little town I grew up in, extremely limited,

The Internet made things better.

Now that I'm an author, I want to provide my readers with as much community as possible. After all, it was listening to my friends argue and praise that first book that helped writing get its hooks into me. 

I love talking about books, my own and the ones I've read.

So talk to me, Seriously! (Writing is a lonely business.)

Here are some of the ways I have set up so far. If you think I need another, tell me so.

You're encouraged to follow/like my Facebook fan page. I post there often, though Facebook has stopped sharing everything I post with page followers.

So far, Facebook lets group members configure notification settings to show all posts. That's a huge improvement over the fan page. The group is currently private because it is an annex of the main readers group, getting posts about free downloads and behind the scenes stuff previously reserved for my newsletter subscribers.