Closed. No service. All books banned.
Internet trolls reign free to police any online presence
attempting to download anything that slightly resembles a limerick or a haiku.
Graphic tees, shirts with funny or thought-provoking quotes,
anything like reading made into an outlawed activity.
The world a place of plain solid colors, smiles discouraged
for fear of encouraging positivity. Positivity could lead to the sharing of
ideas, possible debate and lively discussions.
Hands empty of glossy hardcover books and prevented from
owning a paperback to bend or turn pages into dog-eared bookmarks.
This is the read-pocalypse. No readers to swoon behind
book boyfriends, to read the character tales itching for freedom beyond the
fringes of our busy minds.
That day is not this day.
YAY!!
Today, readers can hop into any local library to read about
Harry Potter and his wizarding adventures, or walk through a wardrobe into a
snowy new world of magic, Turkish delight and an awesome lion. They can venture
into a magicked nook of small town Texas and discover witches, vampires and
shifters living in a tenuous harmony.
Readers are out there, hungry for our stories. So writers
must write, query agents and editors or self-publish. After all, there are some
deep reader appetites to fulfill.
Writers: Write like there’s no read-pocalypse.
Readers: Read like there’s no tomorrow J
That would be a sad day indeed, wouldn't it? I vow to write like there is no read-pocalypse.
ReplyDeleteThat's the best way to write, at least it's certainly got me going lol!
Deletebeautiful...I read 3 books last night (complete books). I lost sleep because of it, but when a person loves to read as much as I do, you will sacrifice things like sleep.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! See, reading is such a joy. Love it!
DeleteI kind of heart palpitations just THINKING about Readopolis. Chilling.
ReplyDeleteReading is my life line! Great post.
There must be something in that Texas air to achieve that kind of harmony! Guess I'll have to find out what it is.
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