Kate, I do suck sometimes. I really do.

Kate H, I know. I seem to have a bird obsession. It’s worse than it looks: this book has not only a pigeon, but also talks about loons, cormorants, puffins, chickadees, and woodpeckers. Plus, the main character’s last name is Drake. It’s all a little weird. Maybe my next book should be bird-free.

Thanks Mags, Karen, and Mary!

Thanks for stopping by, Semioticghost–I really enjoyed the workshop.

Michelle, many people love Ewan and the chicken, but I think you have a special bond.

And you see other people like the picture of Ewan McGregor kissing a chicken!

Love,
Mags

Tell me… do you have a thing about birds? We had chickens in the last one, pigeons in this… what’s it going to be in the next one?

And want to know something – you *never* suck!

See you soon
Kate

I have to admit that I would not pay for a mills and boon book in a shop but I will occasionally read one if it is passed on to me, You, as an author, don’t make any money from me and yet I feel that I support your writing efforts, If I get a book from Bookcrossing, I always journal it and give some feedback to other readers about how I felt about the book, this form of publicity come free. When I have finished with a book I often Wild Release it for random strangers to pick up, hopefully read and pass on in their turn. For most people picking up such a book, its very randomness will mean that there is a vanishingly small chance that they will ever pick up another book the same way by the same author – but if they like it then I feel that they are more likely to first time buy a book by that author – afterall, most of us have limited funds and usually will only spend money on things that we feel we will like – so if they have experience of reading one of an authors works then they are more likely to read another.

I currently have about a 10% success rate on wild releases – I realise that most of the books that I let go wandering will probably never get journaled, some will get thrown away unread, some will get picked up and kept by a stranger, some will be read by more than one person before they disappear – I hope that many of them will enliven someones life, however temperary, and that the act of random kindness may encurage more people to read for pleasure – and if they are reading more then they should be buying more!

Plus it makes me feel like I am a nicer person by being randomly kind, which, I think, makes the whole world a nicer place!

keep on writing, you are making the world a better place!