An Author’s Guide to Book Clubs by guest @JeriWB

Your post was interesting to read because I probably didn’t plan much for the book club meetings I attended. Of course, the clubs I went to were more like wine clubs. Very supportive folks though! Thanks fo a good post

I’ll have to check around – I know we have book clubs in the area. One of my work friends belongs to one but she said they never read romance . I’ve seen some listed on Goodreads too but I haven’t gotten a sense of how active those are.
Interesting possibility for an author though. Thanks!

Unfortunately, I forget about book clubs and that’s where my readers are! This sounds like an awesome resource to both connect and offer book club members ways to deepen their reading experience.

Great Idea! I will have to look into book clubs near me.

Thank you, Jeri and Rachel, for this post. It came st the perfect time for me. Just last night, in #BookMarketingChat, Alexa Bigwarfe mentioned the importance of book clubs (especially for fiction writers). I was just wondering how to get started with that, then I saw your post!

Our local book club (through our library) is always THRILLED when we can get authors to come and discuss a book of theirs that we have read. It’s nice to know where the characters came from, how the plot was derived, how much of the book is autobiographical (or not), and just more info about the magical process of writing. And I would think it’s a great marketing tool for the author – we will occasionally each purchase the book, and then gift it back to the Montana Book Club network for other book clubs to use. (I believe that the authors have just contacted our librarian.)

I added a book club discussion guide to my most recent book Shift Into Thrive: Six Strategies for Women to Unlock the Power of Resiliency and I’m glad I did. Not only can it be used for book clubs it can be used to facilitate discussions at workshops and courses at a university. I’ve done both.

A talked and gifted person I’m glad to know.

I have a hard time finding book clubs for young adults in my area. There’s one through our local indie bookstore has one and I met some amazing kids through visiting that one. Which led to speaking in front of a classroom. 🙂 but I see it as more of a relationship building time, and a great chance to encourage youth to read and write!

Thanks for including the cognitive portion of question formation. By adding that and understanding things like satire in a book stretches the brain and helps the ethos, pathos, logos of understanding your teader’s points of view on subjects.

My book club attendance has always been spotty at best, but this brings a different kind of focus to the activity, sounds like fun.

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I love the idea of using book clubs to further your readers’ enjoyment of your books. Thank you, Jeri, for sharing your expertise!

This is a terrific resource. Definitely keeping this close as I move forward toward the day when I have my product in hand and am ready for this! Thank you!

This is definitely one potential marketing resource that never even occurred to me to seek out–I sort of assumed book clubs chose their own reading without any input from authors whatsoever. Great idea!

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Useful post! Thank you so much, Jeri, for the information. And a thanks to Rachel for putting on NaNoProMo!