How do I make an author happy? Leave a review. 

You buy a book, read it, love it, then give it away or toss it on a shelf. What else is there to do? If the book was written by Steven King or Nora Roberts it won’t make a lot of difference but if it was written by Linda Laughlin that is a different story. Authors who have written one or two books would love for you to do a review of their book. Get on Amazon or Goodreads and you can have a part in the making of an author. New authors would pay to have someone give them a review but that is against the rules and most sites have ways to catch the person who gives fraudulent reviews. Aunt Martha can leave ten different messages but they all come from the same site and somehow the computer tells the story. With some booksellers they hope to sell you the book, then get you to review it, thus ensuring one book, one review. For those of you that think your vote doesn’t count, at least in the book world you are wrong. Make an author happy, do a book review.