10 Ways to Help Your Favorite Introverted Author

Day 2-A thousand words

May 08, 2025

The Introvert Dilemma

As we noted on Day 1, many of your favorite authors are, quite possibly, introverts.

The writing—or writing-drawing—they do is a quiet activity, often done in solitude.

When (happy day!) they get their books published, everything changes. The world is noisy, and they’re asked to step into the fray. This effort can be quite tiring and deplete their ability to create more of what you loved from them in the first place.

What can you do to help your favorite introverted author out? This little series gives you ideas to try.

Ten ways, ten days.

Day 2: A Thousand Words

Day two can be really fun: photographing the book and sharing it on your socials.

5 Ideas for Making It Fun

Photograph the book in an unusual place. The bathroom book still makes us smile—though there is no photo to commemorate it. And Sonia Barkat “found” The Joy of Poetry up a tree, surrounded by its signature yellow…
Photograph the book next to a landmark, famous or just local.
(Here’s one of ours, photographed in front of an establishment down the street called “Will’s Barber Shop.” We tagged the store owner on Instagram, and we also thought it was fun that the owner has the same first name as our author!)
Place an object inside, on, or next to the book, to bring a particular image upwards. Here’s a photo that our own L.L. Barkat created for an author she coached during the publicity phase of the author’s journey. The needle mirrors an image from one of Laurie’s fabulous poems…
And here’s one that L.L. photographed for How to Write a Form Poem, whose central image is travel…
And, another one that L.L. photographed for The Honey Field, which centers around a character who’s been left with the dubious job of caring for bees (and she doesn’t know how!)
Pair the book with a food that’s featured in the book. We loved the oranges that showed up in a poignant part of Brookhaven, so, voilà!
Focus on a part of the book title that’s meaningful to you. These two images were created by Sandra Heska King (photo 1) and L.L. Barkat (photo 2). They focus on “peace” and “paradise,” respectively…

Final Tip

When you post the book photo on your socials, be sure to tag your (introverted) author, so they can see and share your posts (if they’re not feeling too tired or overwhelmed. 🙂)

Extra Mile Gift

If you have $10 you could spare, you could even go so far as to “boost” your photo post on social. Your introverted author would be amazed you’d go that extra mile! We know, because we tried a version of this for a whole month. We’d find posts from our community that we loved and boost them for $10 on Facebook. People were delighted and grateful!

That’s it for Day 2: A Thousand Words.

See you soon for Day 3!