I contributed to my first blog, other than my own the other day. The post is located at:
http://hebervalleywriters.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/more-than-a-book/
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More Than A Book
When an author says, “Hey, buy my book!” What they are really saying is, “Hey, please support me so I can keep doing what I love!” After all, what you are buying is more than just a book. Yes, you will take it home and read it, and it may be only that to you, but to the author you support through your purchase, it is so much more.
Authors are artists in their own way. Just as paint is carefully placed onto a piece of stretched canvas, each word that an author places into their story, represents something to them. Words placed in such a way, to make everything make sense, to make magic. Countless hours are consumed in crafting of the perfect story, representing something beautiful they see in their own mind.
So when you purchase their book, their art, you are not just purchasing a group of pages to be placed on a shelf, you are purchasing their time. You are buying their energy, their joy and all of the sacrifice that went into creating that story. You are buying an opportunity for them to continue to do something that they love.
Next time an author says, “Hey, buy my book!” Show them you support them, and believe in them and that most of all, you want to see their joy.
For those of you who don’t read, buy the book anyway, it would be unfortunate if all of the trees surrendered for the writing of a novel had sacrificed their lives for nothing. If you don’t do it for the art of it, buy books for the Trees!