What’s In My Book Bag
It should come as no great surprise to anyone that authors are also avid readers. After all, it’s what got me all fired up in taking the risk of wading into the competitive world of penning words to paper, or more accurately, typing away on a PC keyboard my inner most creative thoughts.
One small effort I use in promoting other Indie authors is to read and review one of their labors of love, than give it away on my website. At most of my book signings you will see posted on Facebook and Twitter, the spine of my book among a pile of other books to promote other author’s such as myself. I am part of several social media reading groups.
Some of these groups allow me to promote my work, while others are strictly for the purpose of discussing what’s new on the book scene and I can shamelessly hail the praises of an Indie author’s work I’ve recently read.
What’s In My Book Bag: My Favorite Reads
As a newer Indie author, my reading has grown to be quite eclectic from reading and promoting other Indie authors works. I am reading things that I never would otherwise picked off the shelf in an effort to lend moral support to a comrade in the Amazon trenches.
That is not to say I don’t read popular mainstream authors. I never pass by a new book by William Kent Krueger, a Virgil Flowers story by John Sanford, a mystery to solve in a National Park with Nevada Barr, or a steamy romance by Sylvia Day whose Crossfire series I have in my collection of audiobooks.
I anxiously await my copy of Tim O’Brien author of The Things They Carried, new book, Dad’s Maybe Book and I couldn’t put down The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. And I enjoy the work of Kent Nerburn, which focus on Native American and American culture and general spirituality. In fact, I love fantasy, sci-fi, romance, mystery and suspense, humor, historical, you name it. With so many good reads, it’s difficult to know what to choose.
My Book List
Here are just a few of my favorite Indie and mainstream authors.
The Witness Tree by Amy Jerabek Pendino
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Breedling And The Shepherdess by Kimberlee Ann Bastian
Naked in Death by J.D.Robb
Lets Pretend It Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Matka by Sarah Haney
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruger
Sparkle On by Kim Kane
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Truth About Goodbye by Russel Ricard
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Beneath The Same Stars by Phyllis Cole-Dai
Love With A Side Of Crazy by Tina Susedik
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Wisconsin Vamp (Monsters in the Midwest) by Scott Burtness
Blood Brothers (Sign of the Seven) by Nora Roberts
Wrapping Up What’s In My Book Bag
With so many choices, it’s difficult not to find a good book. So, fill up that book bag, grab a beverage and snuggle in your favorite chair with blanket or PJ’s and happy reading!
