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Is it a good idea for the author to give his e-mail address in his book? Max

Interesting idea. What I've seen most published authors do is include the homepage of their website, and those usually have contact info of some kind, so I suppose what you're suggesting is just skipping a middle step. Still, you might consider getting a site if you're going to be published, it can only help with publicity and things of that nature. But if you do stick with just the email, I strongly suggest you get an email account solely for that purpose. I've heard nothing but horror stories from anyone who became well-known and left their phone number, home address, etc. publicly available. I'm willing to bet you'll be amazed at the kind of mail you'll get.

Yeah! I agree i's a very interesting idea! Don't know why no one else ever thought of it before!

I'd say go for it! I can't remember which book I read a few years ago, but it was a fictional book, and one of the characters had a "fictional" email, and I sent a message to it, and actually got a response. So, if people send emails to fictional email addresses, I'm positive they'll send them to authors who list their email address in the book!

Good idea and the page of website... it is super!

i think it's a good idea cause readers can communicate with him in a direct way and give their impressions of the writer book
of course it should be an exclusive email only for that so it could be more easy for the author to reply

it`s a good idea but you have to make sure that your email address will be active for a long time (even 20 years) so the readers will have the chance to contact you and will not get an error message.

I see no problem here. It can be a good chance to get some feedback - it doesn't matter - the negative or the positive one, but it works.

I think it is a great idea but what if you decide or need to change it for any reason. Maybe that is why most authors use their website instead.

Max wrote:Is it a good idea for the author to give his e-mail address in his book? Max

I think a dedicated email address should be mentioned through which reader and author can stay in-touch with updates, info or any suggestion etc..

email address is important because if someone like the person's work and want to get in touch, then nothing can be better than a email id.

Yeah! I agree i's a very interesting idea!

Its probably the best, professional and convenient way these days. So yes, why not?

if you do make sure that its a semi fake address and not one that can be traced to your home address or have any other details attached to it

Yeah, its shouldn't be a personal one for sure..