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If there aren't many readers who have read your book, the chat may be not well attended. If you'd like have a LibraryThing interviewer host your chat, which would give you at least one person who's read your book and wants to ask you questions about it, please start a new thread in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/groups/authorchat">Author Chat group</a> with the following information: Subject: </p> <ul><li>Interviewer needed: Your Name (your genre) <ul><li>example: Interviewer needed: Leonid Korogodski (science fiction)</li></ul></li></ul> <p>Message </p> <ul><li>title of book and your author name</li> <li>a synopsis and link to more information about it (if available)</li> <li>genre of the book</li> <li>hard copy or ebook?</li> <li>country you live in (for mailing purposes)</li></ul> <p>Members who are interested will read the synopsis and any other information you have about the book. Those who are willing to read the book will send you a profile comment, which you can see on your <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/">profile page</a>. If the member finds themselves unable to interview you (because they dislike the book, or become unavailable), they will mail your book back. (If it's an ebook, the member will keep it). </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Members:">Members:</span></h2> <p>Look for threads starting with "Interviewer needed" in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/groups/authorchat">Author Chat group</a> </p> <ul><li>read the synopsis and any other information available</li> <li>decide if you'd like to interview the author and contact them via profile comment</li></ul> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Interviewer_agreement">Interviewer agreement</span></h3> <p>If you are chosen as the interviewer: Once you get the book, if you decide you aren't able interview the author, it is your responsibility to mail the book back. </p> <ul><li>you'll have 6 weeks from receiving the book to read it</li> <li>you'll need to communicate with the author about a timeframe for the author chat/interview</li> <li>you'll be responsible for providing at least 5 questions for the author</li></ul>    </div><div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php?title=Groups:Author_Chat&oldid=53241">https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php?title=Groups:Author_Chat&oldid=53241</a>"</div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-navigation" role="navigation"> </div> <div id="footer-info" role="contentinfo"> This page was last edited on 17 February 2011, at 11:28. </div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="toplinks" role="navigation"> <p id="syslinks"><a href="/index.php/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> | <a href="/index.php/wiki.librarything.com:About" title="wiki.librarything.com:About">About</a> | <a class="external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents">Help</a> | <a href="/index.php/wiki.librarything.com:FAQ" title="wiki.librarything.com:FAQ">FAQ</a> | <span id="pt-login"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Groups%3AAuthor+Chat" title="You are encouraged to log in; 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