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Free Author Quotes Plugin From AFC
Authors For A Cause can offer the first five authors a free WordPress plugin for their website. The plugin will randomly put a famous quotation from an author at the bottom of every page and post of your website. Look at the bottom of this post to see what it looks like. There at 28 [...]
Why You Should Leave Book Reviews
This post is re-posted with permission by Gwen Perkins As anyone who is or knows an author knows, many of us frequently go around wishing and hoping that our book will receive reviews on that book giant, Amazon. (I also wish and hope for Powell’s and Barnes and Noble’s but as more and more authors publish [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – 2013
Happy New Year! We hope you had an awesome 2012. We've decided to set more goals that we hope to achieve in 2013. AFC is going to work harder than ever to try and make a difference in children's lives. We have three books that are available (look on the right sidebar), so if you [...]
Discovery – An Anthology of Poetry
We are pleased to announce that our first poet, Kenna McKinnon, has recently published her collection of poetry! Today, July 26th 2012, we are having a free giveaway of the sensational poems that take you on an inspiring journey of McKinnon’s life. DISCOVERY – An Anthology of Poetry gets the reader inside the head of [...]
Inspirational Authors: Amanda Hocking
Amanda Hocking was one of the first authors that I heard of that had published ebooks when I started this charity. This blog post changed the way that I looked at publishing and made me want to start this charity even more. Amanda Hocking is one of the names you should know when you hear [...]
AFC: Moving Forward!
Authors For A Cause has made progress! Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us; from following us on Twitter, to tweeting us nice things, and to just saying “what you’re doing is really great” means a lot to us. Twitter: After creating our Twitter account, we have gotten very positive feedback! From learning about [...]
Inspirational Authors: Abigail Brand
Miss Abigail Brand is the type of little girl that I wish I was. Even though she is only six years old, Brand has already written/illustrated three books (one of them is a Spanish translation, wow!) that are a part of her Hello Little series and are available in eBook format or in physical format which [...]
Road Trip Wednesday – Factions from “Divergent”
For this week’s YA Highway’s road trip Wednesday, they ask “What Faction Are You?” referring to the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth. I’ve never actually read the Divergent novels, though I’ve been meaning to. From what I can tell, and from the wonders of Wikipedia, there are five factions; Abnegation: the selfless, Erudite: the intelligent, [...]
Road Trip Wednesday – Things To Do With Books
For this week’s YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday, they ask “What's your favorite use for a book besides reading it?” The first thing that pops into my head about things to do with books other than reading them is annotating them; but I would never do that in my spare time (haha). I don’t really [...]
Road Trip Wednesday – Real Life Young Adult Readers
I’m excited to start participating in a Blog Carnival that YA Highway created called Road Trip Wednesday’s, where they post a weekly writing or reading related question for bloggers to respond to. This week, they ask, “What IRL people can you talk to about YA?” The people who I can talk to about anything related [...]
