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Become A Featured Author

Interested in being a Featured Author on Maryanne’s Bookshelf?  Then by all means inquire within.

Your article will be featured on different social website platforms besides Maryanne’s Bookshelf: Featured Authors (https://maryannesbookshelf.com/featured-authors/) to include any of the following depending upon current accessibility and time constraints:

  1. News Break
  2. Facebook
  3. Medium
  4. Linked In
  5. Tumblr
  6. Pinterest
  7. YouTube
  8. Instagram
  9. X / Twitter

But most excitingly, we have an up and coming new website for our Featured Authors with projected completion & launch date by June 2026 or sooner, in which Book Lovers can discover your books by genre, or author – listed alphabetically, and read your interviews to get more in depth insights about your works.  And Authors can gain advice and insight from other authors.

This New Website’s Premise is to Discover:

  • The Story behind the Story
  • New Books Worth Reading
  • Author Advice from Authors
  • What it takes to be an Author
  • Author Motivation & Inspiration
  • Changes Needed in the Literary World
  • The Good, The Bad & The Ugly when it comes to being an Author
  • And so much more…

If you are looking to reach different sectors of the market place, that are culturally diverse, female or Millennial to Generation X, I am happy to help. This was a new endeavor I embarked upon about 2.5 years ago and am now picking back up, to promote other authors. I stopped for a period as I had to move across states for a new job and had familial obligations, but am glad to be back at it! I enjoy learning from and networking with other authors and am always learning something new from each author I interview, which I am happy to share with my followers.  We can all learn from each other.  Your answers to the questions below also make you more relatable and human to your readers and fans, and will help you acquire new fans.

All authors are welcome, no restriction to genre. You will learn a great deal about yourself by doing this interview as well. If you know any authors that can benefit from an interview, please feel free to send them the link.

Choose any number of Interview Questions that you want to answer, or that you find pertinent, no deadline:

  1. Name/Bio
  2. Book(s)
  3. Where available (Links, Trailers, Website, etc.)
  4. What sets your book(s) apart from all others?  Is it your individual style, your subject matter, etc., how is it different?  What makes your book(s) unique?  What can we expect to gain or enjoy or understand from reading your literary creation(s)? How and/or why is your work important?
  5. Who is your target market, who should be reading your book(s) or who would be interested in reading your book(s)?
  6. What authors inspired you most and how so?  What do you admire about each one?
  7. What advice do you have to offer in support of other authors?
  8. What is your genre(s) of choice and why?  How did you come to write in that particular genre(s) or niche(s)?
  9. How’d you come about discovery of your writing talent, gift or ability?
  10. What are your future writing endeavors?  What’s next on your authorship agenda?
  11. Is writing for you synonymous with living and breathing, or just something you do as a hobby, and how so and why?
  12. What do you feel we need to hear or read more of, that is rare today in a book?
  13. What changes in the literary world would you most like to see?
  14. Indie/Self-Published Author and/or Traditionally Published?  What do you favor more and why?
  15. How is your writing controversial, profound or mind boggling, or how would you describe it?
  16. What do you hope to accomplish with your literary creation?  What change or enlightenment do you want to bring about in your reader if any?
  17. What’s the greatest compliment that you ever received regarding your literary accomplishments and what did this remark do for you, how did it transform your life or your writing?
  18. What’s the most memorable criticism you received regarding your literary works and how did this remark transform you as a writer or influence your writing if at all?
  19. If you could ask a question of your favorite author of all time, what would the question be?  How would you answer that question -yourself?
  20. What have you sacrificed, if anything, to be a writer, or to write as you do?  What have you gained from writing, how has it rewarded you personally?

NEW QUESTIONS

  1. What is the craziest/weirdest/most off the wall thing you ever wrote?
  2. What inspired you to write it?
  3. Did you share it with anyone? Why or why not?
  4. What is your biggest author/writer pet peeve? Why, what annoys you about it?
  5. Have you ever written while drunk/intoxicated? Was it helpful? Please elaborate/explain the experience.
  6. When you write, do you prefer by hand or typing and why?
  7. Did you have a great support system for your writing, or were you discouraged and looked down upon for doing so? For example, were you told it’s a pipe dream and you’ll never make it as a writer?
  8. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give to yourself as a young writer starting out?
  9. What is your secret to writing? What makes you the writer that you are?
  10. What is your go to snack when you write?
  11. Do you have a favorite word and if so what is it and why is it your favorite, what do you like about it?
  12. What was your wow moment as an author, where you really felt like an accomplished author?
  13. If a book is like a date or a potential partner, what is your type? What kind of books do you prefer to write? How would you describe them, what qualities and characteristics do they have to have?
  14. What is one thing all your books have in common?
  15. As a writer, I’m aware that books come from an internal or spiritual place, as all art does, psychologically speaking, so what has prompted you, on a deeper level to write the book or books you have? (For example, was it a loss, or a trauma, etc.)
  16. What is your absolute favorite part of a book? The setting, climax, conclusion, what? And why?
  17. If you have ever felt a story getting away from you and taking on a life form of it’s own, evolving new characters and unexpected or unforeseen plots, how do you stop it from getting away from you? How do you get the story back under your control?  Any advice?
  18. Did you see Game of Thrones? What is your take on the ending?  How would you have ended it as a writer/storyteller?
  19. Who is your favorite character in your favorite childhood story and why?
  20. Who do you invest more writing and development in – your villains or your protagonists?
  21. Are you one for happy endings or are you more of a realist?

Thanks so much!  No rush, take your time and when you are done

You can see Featured Authors posts at this link:

https://maryannesbookshelf.com/featured-authors/

Once I edit, I will post and send you the link for any additions or corrections you might want. Feel free to send any images you want added with your interview Q&A.