We have been updating our pages here by adding some items, deleting others and changing still others to update the website with current information, changes to our privacy policy, and to share what our friends and neighbors are doing to help support themselves and the county. Please check out Community Calendar page for upcoming events this summer for the kids and any markets, festivals or other events we adults might like to attend; Check our Support Local Artists page for updated informaton on the many great authors who live or have grown up in Lafayette County; and check out our other pages to make sure we have accurate information about your business listings inside the county.
The local writers section has a listing of all the local published writers who currently live or grew up in Lafayette County Florida. Thanks, in part, to the library for furnishing the listing and most of their books can be checked out from the library or purchased on Amazon. It would be nice to hear from each of them as I am in the process of creating a booklet of all North Florida writers to be available for download on my Jolenes Books and More website and sent to each of the county libraries so that they can plan future local author events and buy copies of their books to have for their readers. Of course, you could always donate paperback copies to them. That is always nice.
For each of the authors we would like to include:
Your Full name (Preferably their birth name with the Pen Name(s) next to it; their current residence by city (or even just the county would be helpful); the writing genre(s); a short biography (such as where you grew up, what started you into writing and perhaps a little bit about your process or what advice you would give unpublished authors; a current picture (we don’t care what you look like only that it is a current picture of you so that people will be able to recognize you at future events; a “PUBLIC” facebook page either an author page or book series page that you post regularly to (not your personal one only open to friends and family), a website/blog address (hopefully that has been updated sometime this year), an email address (preferably one for your writing public to get in touch as well as potential future local author events, or speaking engagements that they would like to be a part of and market your books); and a listing of ALL of your published works in date order.
If you are not the internet type but still would like to hear from your fans or perhaps get invited to participate in local author events in the area we could list your home phone and/or mailing address. If you have a P.O. Box so much the better or if you have an agent we could list their information instead. Whichever you feel the most comfortable listing it will be a public document but remember it is also a great marketing tool for selling your books and getting new readers.
So far we have a 30 page document that encompasses 17 counties located in the North East Florida area. You can check out the North Florida Writers Page to find out more on the project and see the listing we have so far. Granted the listing on that page does not include current pictures or bios and is alphabetical order but the booklet will have the pictures and biographies and will be separated into counties. For those authors who grew up in one North Florida county and are currently living in another North Florida county I guesss you will be listed twice.
We hope you will buy the local author books, post reviews on the buying sites and encourage more people in the county who love to write to publish their stories too. You don’t have to have an agent or even a publisher to publish but to do it right and to make a little money you will have to do all the marketing yourself as well as preparing your book for printing and/or eBook distribution. Please see articles we have posted on our Webs and Blogs for Writers website to get more information.
Don’t forget to also support our local small businesses, local farmers and growers as well as our local crafts persons too! We just posted on the Community Calendar an event local author Kasey Lynn Carothers will be giving a talk at the Lafayette County Library during the Summer 2018 Library Rocks Events on July 10th!
Till next time