It's Favorite Author Month!

Rick Riordan

For the month of May, it will be Favorite Author Month on The Bookshelf! After doing some research, I became very disappointed. There's Favorite Book Month, Banned Books Week, Children Book Month, and Literacy Month, but there is no Favorite Author Month. I believe a Favorite Author(s) Month should be created because without authors, where are the books? Authors deserve recognition for the hard work and thought process that they put into their books!

Neal Shusterman

I thought May would be a great month to honor the favorite authors of mine, because it is also my Blogiversary Month (blogiversary - cool word, huh?) All this month I will be writing reviews and recommendations of books written by my favorite authors. Some of my favorites include Neal Shusterman, Ally Condie, Suzanne Collins, Gary D. Schmidt, Rick Riordan, Markus Zusak, John Green, Jackson Pearce, and Maggie Stiefvater.You can see their pictures scattered around this post. I though the best way to draw attention to these marvelous writers would be to create reviews that will not only praise their books, but also praise them as authors and individuals, too.

Ally Condie

Wondering how you, the readers of The Bookshelf, can celebrate Favorite Authors Month, too? It's easy:  Read your favorite books, visit the websites/blogs of your favorite authors, tell friends about the best books you've ever read, buy a new book by one of your favorite authors (authors benefit financially and spiritually when they see their fans purchasing their books), visit the library and ask the librarian for books similar to those that you enjoy, post about some of your favorite books right here on The Bookshelf in the comment section! The possibilities are endless! Just have fun and enjoy the books that you are reading. And when you're thinking, "Wow! This book is amazing!", remember the author, and just think about what an incredible person this must be to have written such a stellar book!

Because that's what Favorite Author Month is all about: reading and discovering favorite books and being so happy that someone, an author, put a certain story down on paper for the whole world to read.