So, recently I
received a lovely e-mail from someone I guess I should call a fan: She read and
enjoyed “Lost and Found” in Lesbian Lust, and wanted to know if I had any signed bookplates.
Here’s the
thing. We writers write in a vacuum. We hunch over our computers and sometimes
the words flow and other times they’re chiseled out by one-armed dwarves
wielding rusty pick-axes. We do the best we can, and when we’re done with our
art, it becomes our product, and we fire it out into the world and hope it
sells, because that’s what pays the bills.
We also hope
that someone reads it, and that some of those people who read it kinda like it.
If someone
actually writes a positive review, or asks for an autograph, etc? That just
about sends us over the moon. Really. Honest. Wow. That’s what fills the soul.
Anyway, I
didn’t have any bookplates. Hadn’t even considered they might be necessary. I
went online and found a slew of ones I couldn’t afford (in terms of, I don’t
need 500 of them at this time, but when I do, I assume I’ll be able to afford
them!), and then I found erinshelby.etsy.com and picked up some lovely
affordable customizable ones.
If anyone else
wants a signed bookplate (i.e., you’re not local and can’t hand me a book),
just let me know and I’ll fire one off to you. That is, if you want an Andrea
Dale autograph. I’m still sorting out all the other pseudonyms! (But if you do want a different pseudonym, still let
me know, so I know there’s a need for those bookplates!)
Wow.
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