#email for authors

[the960writers]

by Lisa Norman

Statements I’ve heard recently:

"I keep getting errors from my friend's Yahoo email. Tell her to fix it!" (hint: Yahoo was refusing the person’s email because they didn’t have it set up right…the problem was not on the receiving end, but on the sending end)

"Why is MailChimp telling me to do something? What do I DOOOO?" (MailChimp was spitting out alphabet soup… read on to translate)

"MailerLite just changed everything!" (Yep. MailerLite had to release a new version in order to cope.)

As the resident geek to a herd of authors, I've heard a ton of this over the last month, combined with a lot of existential dread.

[cinderella-ish]

that feeling when someone is going through your works list and leaving kudos on each fic as they read 🥰

[silentwalrus1]

“Always leave a comment on fic even if it’s just emoji or a heart!!!” Ok sure whatever -

“Even better, do it on EVERY CHAPTER!!” alright listen here you participation trophy terrorist if you think flooding my inbox with 29489384 individual messages of UwU <3 does anything but burn server space, nestled right up there with the spambots & chatgpt motherfuckers shoveling Line Go Up slop into my attention hole in a grotesque mimicry of human communication,

Silence is sacred actually. You do NOT have to talk. Authors are not fucking calling attendance and if you really feel that strongly about wanting to show appreciation but having nothing to say, find their ko-fi or patreon or whatever and stick a dollar in the tip jar, i promise that will be a lovely compliment well received & understood that transcends every known human language

[thelonelyshore-if]

Coming in at a whopping 19k, I've managed to wrap up my mystery scene!! And, because of that, I can finally reach out to the new beta testers! I'll try to get in touch with everyone this weekend c:

[wickjump]

im gonna start posting fanfic recs btw whenever i find good ones. both here and my (awfully barren) 18+ account. because there are so many good fics out there with so few hits and fewer kudos and sometimes no comments period and it SUCKS because i REALLY LIKE THEM A LOT.. and i hope that by linking them here and yelling at everyone to COMMENT DAMMIT they might actually do it

seriously though any comment means a lot. most people who read a fic don’t even give a kudos. even if the fic wasn’t top tier, if you didn’t dislike it, hand over some kudos!! and if you liked it, comment!!!! even if the comment is one singular heart emoji it will be appreciated. if the comment just says “great fic!” the author will be happy. your comment doesn’t have to be this long winded gushing or analysis.

so many authors quit writing or lose motivation because the comments are few and far in between or just sometimes nonexistent. trust me when i say authors don’t care about how long or cool or smart sounding your comment is i promise!!!

i hope that mmmaybe recommending fics and telling people to comment might help fics i really like get more support maybe. and i, points at you reading this, hope that you will listen!!!at least a little….at least sum kudos….

[thescrapwitch]

I’m sorry WHAT THE HECK do you mean Victoria Goddard has read my fanfiction?????????

And knows about my Tumblr?????

(If you are reading this Victoria hello please know that your email made my year and I’m reading Stargazy Pie right now and also loving it so thank you for your wonderful words)

[chaoticallykinkygrem]

I hope all fanfic authors know that the second I get that sweet sweet email telling me a story I subscribed to updated or they responded to my comment, I audibly gasp and start to shake with excitement

[thhouseofblack]

I love being a university student and having access to all these fascinating Homeric articles that are behind a paywall like this is heaven

[finnlongman]

A paper presented at the Seventh Ulidia Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, held at Ulster University, Belfast, June 2024.

No, this was not the official title of my paper.

Yes, this was my actual final slide and did remain on the screen for some time.

Yes, a few people laughed.

No, nobody brought it up afterwards. In fact, all the senior scholars were being incredibly nice about my paper, which suggests they read this in the most accurate way (completely sincerely and innocently).

This is probably for the best.

[frownyalfred]

no one has more BDE than the fandom author who comes back after 5+ years to update their abandoned WIP.

[bambasbatenthusiat]

Illustration for the book/novella yea this was from feb-April last year 👍

[mikalilys]

I swear there’s no better feeling then getting an email from ao3

[paulandjohn]

[sandwichsapphic]

“very amusing sir” DO NOT ENCOURAGE HIM. your boyfriend is making jokes during the apocalypse this is NOT the time

[hawnks]

One time I read this pulpy romance book and it made me literally an insane person and I went onto the authors website and found her contact me page and I wrote her this really long email about how much I loved her book and looking back it was really actually very unhinged and also it was 2am but she emailed me back that morning and was nice about it :)

[hurtcomforted]

is there a greater joy than getting into a new fandom and realizing an author you already like and follow writes for it