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Signal boosting: Judith Tarr
May. 11th, 2016 11:52 pmSF/Fantasy/Historical fiction writer Judith Tarr is having financial difficulties and is trying to raise enough money to care for her Lippizan horses, many of whom are rescue horses, from what I understand. I love horses and I loved her Avaryan Rising series, so I'm passing the word along. If you would like to help, there are many options available, as mentioned on her LJ post: you can purchase a sponsorship or donate any amount via Paypal (to capriole at gmail dot com, she says in the comments), join her Patreon, or buy her ebooks from Amazon or Book View Cafe. (I believe she gets more money per book from Book View, if you want to take that into consideration.)
If you can't contribute financially but still want to help, she says: "If you've read my books, there's one thing you can do that won't cost you anything: Post an honest review online, especially at Amazon. The more reviews a book gets, the likelier it is to trigger the algorithm that gets the book on recommendation and 'If you liked this' lists, which means more chance of improving sales. Mentioning the books at conferences, recommending a favorite to friends, blogging about it--all these things help. I can tell when people are talking about my work; I see the spike in sales."
I just bought some of her ebooks, and one of them is Writing Horses: The Fine Art of Getting It Right. Someone on a fandom discussion meme recommended it as very informative and useful, if you ever have reason to write about horses/riding in your stories. I don't usually write about horses (though there's a brief mention of one in Ash's Story), so I mostly bought it to help out Tarr and because I thought it would be fun to read. But hey, you never know--someday I might want to write about Snape and Lupin going horseback riding, or about Count D and Leon rescuing a mistreated horse!
If you can't contribute financially but still want to help, she says: "If you've read my books, there's one thing you can do that won't cost you anything: Post an honest review online, especially at Amazon. The more reviews a book gets, the likelier it is to trigger the algorithm that gets the book on recommendation and 'If you liked this' lists, which means more chance of improving sales. Mentioning the books at conferences, recommending a favorite to friends, blogging about it--all these things help. I can tell when people are talking about my work; I see the spike in sales."
I just bought some of her ebooks, and one of them is Writing Horses: The Fine Art of Getting It Right. Someone on a fandom discussion meme recommended it as very informative and useful, if you ever have reason to write about horses/riding in your stories. I don't usually write about horses (though there's a brief mention of one in Ash's Story), so I mostly bought it to help out Tarr and because I thought it would be fun to read. But hey, you never know--someday I might want to write about Snape and Lupin going horseback riding, or about Count D and Leon rescuing a mistreated horse!
