Karen Dionne, author of the recently released Freezing Point and co-founder of Backspace, The Writers' Place, asks not what the book industry can do for her, but what she can do for the book industry in these insane economic times.
Karen has come up with a great new blog to help convince the book-buying public that books make the very best gifts of all this holiday season, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Buy Books. The challenge? To encourage people to buy one book or dozens for themselves or as gifts. Then pop by the blog to record your purchases. Every book listed gets posted to the pretty book-o-rama and books listed in the comments trail are added to an ever growing list of favorites. Karen's goal? To encourage the sale of one million books.
So buy a book or ten today and get your tail over to Karen's to record your fabulousness, you forward thinking little thing. Books make the very best gifts. Besides the obvious gift of story and learning and entertainment you'll be bestowing upon that loved one (even if said loved one is self) books make great gifts because they're relatively inexpensive, can't get crushed in the mail without some serious effort, the dog probably won't rip into them on Christmas Eve when you're sleeping unless you've rubbed the covers in meat, and they are guranteed not to make you fat.
Give a book and you look good all around.
Image courtesy of The Writers' Group
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