Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧: I love hearing authors read their own work. Author readings are the lifeblood of book culture -- i miss bookstore readings and spoken word events. So in my latest newsletter I offer some tips to help authors do a better job with reading out loud 📚🎤🤩 buttondown.email/charliejane/...

I love hearing authors read their own work. Author readings are the lifeblood of book culture -- i miss bookstore readings and spoken word events. So in my latest newsletter I offer some tips to help authors do a better job with reading out loud 📚🎤🤩 buttondown.email/charliejane/...

Let Authors Read Their Work!buttondown.email One thing that bums me out is my sense that people don't seem to want to listen to authors reading their work in public as much as they used to. (This is a...

I absolutely love doing public readings and I hope the down trend for them changes. Thanks for the advice about pauses. I’ll use it in future!

I've been mostly in the poetry world so that is interesting how poetry readings still happen but prose has dropped off. One of my local poetry open mics includes a feature writer doing half-reading, half-interview, and sometimes we get a prose writer.

if authors read their own work i can finally figure out if i'm pronouncing names wrong in my head

Strangely enough, the one time you generally don't want to hear an author reading their own work is in audio dramas. Ask any of my actors.

Getting to read at Writers with Drinks was really wonderful for me. It was because of you, and the beautiful, tender way you received my work. There's no reason you'd remember this, but it was important to me. I'm going to do a reading of new work at ReaderCon this year. Scared. Want to. Both.

Oooh when is your reading at ReaderCon? I wanna go!

My #ReaderCon reading is 6 pm Saturday night. If you can make it, I would love it.

Yay I think I can be there!

Yay!

That's so lovely. Things on my schedule might be changing around, but I'll be sure to tell you when I know!

I hadn't really noticed the shift but yeah this is so true. I know my interest in readings waned compared to conversations specifically because of the shift to streaming but it's interesting that you note it had already started

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