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Some of you may already have heard that Jenn and I were chatting it up on about local authors the other day and as a result two blog projects were born. First, her “Virginia is for Book Lovers” where she’ll showcase local authors from the State where she lives. The second is my Literary Road Trip idea (see below for more info).

As we continued to gab on about it all and bounce ideas off each other several people chimed in on Twitter and then in response to Jenn’s kick-off post, that they too would be interested in undertaking the same for their home States. Yipee, I say!

So, me being me, my original idea morphed a bit into something else. Now without further ado, I bring to you the Literary Road Trip. What is this you ask? Well it will be a bit of a crossroads (get it….ha ha, road humor) where we create a bit of a community.

Now, please keep in mind I’ll be fleshing this out a bit more over the next week but I’m just so excited about the prospect that I’m going to get the first steps going now:

  1. Wanna represent and and showcase local authors?
    Sign up and grab dibs! Reply to this post and stake your claim. Please give me the State , Canadian province, or for you internationals the country you want to represent and the URL for your blog.
  2. Since I too want to participate and showcase authors I’m going to go about it at a more global level. As conductor of the Literary Road Trip I will be writing reviews for one debut author from each of the States as well.

Wanting to make this more fun than it already is I’m going to try and build a bit of a community here and see if I can’t get some author chats, interviews, giveaways and other such fun stuff going on as well.

Like I said I’ve got to think a bit more on logistics over this week but I know for sure that each week, here on Galleysmith, I’ll post an update with links to all the new showcases in one central location so readers can get that local flavor on your blogs.

So grab a good book, reserve your seat on the bus and get comfortable because we’re in for a fun ride!