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TGIF is a weekly meme hosted by the amazing Ginger at GReads!

This week Ginger has an amazing question (as always).

Authors Are Our Celebrities: 

Have you ever contacted an author you admired? How did that experience go?  

If not, which author would you love to have a chat with? 

Yes, I have contacted authors and I love these interactions. I started contacting authors long before I started blogging. My mum publishes a bimonthly Patchwork magazine here in Austria and so I experienced kind of first hand that people mostly e-mail or phone you when they want to complain about something and that she treasured those times when someone called her to compliment her work. 

This is why I decided to write e-mails to authors whose books I love and to tell them that they did a great job entertaining me. The first author I contacted was Jack Sheffield who writes a series about a head teacher in a small school in the Yorkshire Dales – kind of autobiographic. He answered immediately and told me how much her loved my mail and that receiving encouraging mails is just plain awesome. 

After this I contacted authors just to give them feedback or to tell them how much I love their work and I want to believe that they smile when reading my mail. Since I joined Twitter interacting with authors got much easier and I chatted with more brilliant authors, like Amy Plum or Ali McNamara.

I encourage you all to give more positive feedback – it makes people smile!