A bunch of months ago, a bookstagrammer made a cool photo challenge that revolved around author life. I absolutely loved the idea, but that particular challenge didn’t show off the kind of stuff I personally love to talk about as an author. (Not the fault of the bookstagrammer or anything! But I am not a fulltime author, so stuff that revolves around fulltime author life isn’t for me.) It did however, inspire me to make my own, and I did it for February because it’s how the timing worked out, and also, whee! Shortest month.
Hahahaha I completely forgot that in 2016, February has 29 days.
ANYWAY, this challenge only has 28 so feel free to do whatever you like with that final day. In the meantime, when I mentioned to other author friends that I’d done this, they suggested I put it up on my blog a little bit in advance so people could “prepare” and so that the challenge would be easy to find, so, voila!
If you’re an author, and you’re not on Instagram but wanna be, here’s a great way to get your feet wet! You just post an applicable picture that day, hashtag it #AuthorLifeMonth, and…that’s it!
Feel free to interpret however you want; just don’t forget the hashtag, so the rest of us can find your posts!
Just to clarify a few that are getting the most questions:
- (1) You are more than welcome to participate even if you’re not yet published; just post pictures of your WIPs instead. For something like (6) or (11), you can post stuff you’ve created for other books, or what you’d love to see for yours…totally up to you.
- (5) Comp covers = the covers that inspired yours (or, if you’re not yet published, covers that would inspire yours for the WIP of your choice)
- (25) A pub-sib = someone else at your same publisher. An agent-sib would also be fine, or if you’re self-pubbed, do another self-pub book!
- (27) As I mentioned in the comments, please do post a signature that is not the same you use to sign official documents.
If you’ve get any other questions, please leave them in the comments!
xoxo, @MissDahlELama
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clay1waters said:
Interesting concept. Wish I had done it
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Danni Mae said:
Love the idea of this! I, sadly, don’t have time for instagram, but I’d love to see some author posts!
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Belinda Kroll said:
Love this! I just heard about it so I’ll be behind, but this will be fun! I’ll just drop a couple of the days and end up in March… 😛
Dahlia Adler said:
Welcome!
smdetar said:
Hey. I’m a newb and I’m not quite sure what to post for tomorrow’s “killed darlings”. What is that?
Dahlia Adler said:
Anything you love that you’ve cut from one of your books!
janmoran1 said:
I love this idea! I’ve been instagraming walks around my ‘hood, so I’m in..and as usual, I’m somewhat fashionably (or not!) late 🙂
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Jessie (@sospokejessie) said:
This is such a fascinating challenge to see as just a reader. I like to think I know about books, but I really only know one side of the relationship. So this is cool because I get to see a lot of fun stuff I never really thought about — like the the comp covers day! That was what caught my eye and now I am definitely going to track this on instagram.
Ariel Marie said:
His is awesome! For day #6 what are we supposed to post for fan art?
Dahlia Adler said:
Art fans have made for you, or make your own for your books!
Melanie Bussière said:
Very cool! Newb author here, so I’ll try to do my best to keep up. 🙂
dehelen said:
I looked ahead to Day 5, and I don’t know what a comp cover is. Help?
Dahlia Adler said:
It’s in the post, and also here 😉 https://www.instagram.com/p/BBSqwxRnvmi/?taken-by=missdahlelama
dehelen said:
Sorry about the question re comp covers. I’ve been having trouble ALL DAY seeing what is right in front of me. Thank you so much for doing this, and for generously answering my question. In the past I’ve wondered why people didn’t read all the way through. Sheesh. They were probably just having the kind of day I had today. 😦
Dahlia Adler said:
Haha no worries! I honestly expected, like, ten friends who could easily ask me questions at any minute of the day to do this, so I didn’t think too much about being vague. Now I’m just trying to scramble to find people who need help doing it, so I’m glad you found me first 😉
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Mary Virginia Munoz said:
Very fun! Posted today on Instagram with the hashtag!
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Tanya said:
Looks like a lot of fun! I hope I can hit every day!
Karissa Thorpe said:
Looks like fun
Ash(ley) Poston (@ashposton) said:
This is such a great idea! I’m game!
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Patricia Kiyono said:
Love this idea, and I’ve encouraged others to join me! But we’re concerned about Day 27. For those who don’t write under a pen name, it’s probably not a good idea to post a picture of your signature.
Dahlia Adler said:
All authors are encouraged (in general – not for this challenge specifically) to have signatures for signing books that are not the same as use for credit cards and the like; if you’re authors, that’s always going to be an issue. Feel free to skip that day if you like – or post a picture of another author’s signature that you think is nice – but having an author signature is part of author life!
Courtney Leigh said:
This is cool!! Gonna try to stick to it, haha! Thanks for sharing ❤
Lisa Orchard said:
I’m going to participate! Thanks for the heads up! 🙂