Challenge: author pimping
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lkh_lashoutsTime to share the authors we love and appreciate. So have at it: pimp an author (or several, but only one per post, please)—list his/her/its/their website (if applicable), listing of books, random info, brief story summaries (NO SPOILERS, though). Whatever you think will hook someone on that author.
Guidelines:
1) Pimp your author in a SEPARATE POST, not in the comments to someone else's post. You want as many people to see it as possible. Also, put the author's name in the subject line.
2) Long entries behind an LJ-cut. It's just polite.
3) Do keep an eye on who's been pimped. No sense in us all pimping the same person.
4) Try to keep it along similar genre lines: i.e., fantasy, supernatural, preternatural. Sci-Fi is okay, but ... preferably with a bent along the fantasy/supernatural lines. If you want to pimp YA, that's fine, but again, try to stay in the same genre zones.
5) One author per pimping post.
6) Published authors only please. You may know the best fanfic writer in the world (don't we all?), but we're looking for world-builders, not world-borrowers. (And I mean no disrespect: I write fanfic too. But there's a big difference between fanfic and original fic.)
7) All other rules in the comm must be respected. And common sense too, because really, it just should be.
Guidelines:
1) Pimp your author in a SEPARATE POST, not in the comments to someone else's post. You want as many people to see it as possible. Also, put the author's name in the subject line.
2) Long entries behind an LJ-cut. It's just polite.
3) Do keep an eye on who's been pimped. No sense in us all pimping the same person.
4) Try to keep it along similar genre lines: i.e., fantasy, supernatural, preternatural. Sci-Fi is okay, but ... preferably with a bent along the fantasy/supernatural lines. If you want to pimp YA, that's fine, but again, try to stay in the same genre zones.
5) One author per pimping post.
6) Published authors only please. You may know the best fanfic writer in the world (don't we all?), but we're looking for world-builders, not world-borrowers. (And I mean no disrespect: I write fanfic too. But there's a big difference between fanfic and original fic.)
7) All other rules in the comm must be respected. And common sense too, because really, it just should be.
