Would You Want Your Favorite Author To Read A Book You Wrote
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Re: Would You Want Your Favorite Author To Read A Book You W
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Some here seem to be separating themselves from well-known authors. And indeed, some are aloof and unapproachable, and are famous celebs who are isolated from the general public. But most writers are "real" people who go on book release tours and are quite accessible. Many of these personable writers, for example, maintain an active website or Facebook presence and are always chatting with fans.
If your own writing is similar to that favored author (such as similar genres) then you might try to establish a connection. I did this with a very well known mystery author whose modern-day American private detective books are classics. As a private detective author myself, I got in touch with him to ask him a legitimate question. I also was at the time doing book & movie reviews for the local newspaper and shared with him a sarcastic review I'd written about a particularly awful mystery "thriller", about which this well known author got a huge laugh.
Anyway, we established a real correspondence. Later, when my first novel was sold, he graciously provided a review, which really helped boost sales.
Point being, don't place well known writers on too much of a pedestal. Most of them (there are of course a few jerks) are approachable. And are therefore potential "allies" and resources. And many of them would be very happy to read your book.
This of course means not that you've simply finished a novel, but that your book's been sold to publisher and is in print (or about to be), which establishes that critical "professional" aspect of your being a "real" author. But if your book's in print (not self-published!) then yes, a famous author might indeed be happy to read that book and provide comment, maybe even a cover blurb, as did the famous author for my first novel.
Therefore, don't sit in a corner by the stove and dream of things. Instead, do them!
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Of the few authors I've met, one has been Cormac McCarthy (author of Blood Meridian, Child of God, The Road, No Country for Old Men). I knew him very slightly in El Paso, found him to be a brilliant and congenial man. This was of course before he gained national prominence.
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But then again, what if she did like it? Quite the dilemma!