The Story Reading Ape’s guest today is Jemima Pett discussing the benefits of authors working together to promote their writing and books…
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My writing career really took off when I started working with other authors. It was a little thing that started it all. Sally Harris, author of the wonderful Diary of a Penguin-napper, suggested we got together to do a promotion of the first chapter of our books in a volume called Love Middle Grade Actually in February 2013. Through that I got talking, and made friends with, a dozen other authors. I’d not really done much blogging then, not like we do now, joining in challenges with other bloggers, doing blog hops and the like. And it takes a bit of nerve to approach someone you don’t know (and maybe think is so much better than you, and so much more knowledgeable).
The way we worked together on a project, being brought together by Sally, made me want to do it…
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TINA FRISCO 
When authors really get the concept that we are all in this together and work to promote and support each other, great things happen! That is exactly what the Rave Reviews Book Club is built on. We need more of “us” and less of “me!” Thanks for posting, Tina!
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We’ve certainly enjoyed working together! Thanks for reading this 🙂
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You’re welcome, Jan. And you’re right. No one can make it alone… ❤
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