How to Find a Book Club in Your Area

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Julia Drake and I'm going to talk about how to find a book club in your area. The first thing you have to consider when thinking about joining a book club is what kind of book club you want to be part of what kind of genre. A local book club, you're getting together you know face to face with people and just by the nature of you know, being together, physically being together it's more of a you know, there's a social factor to it that you don't have as much with on line book clubs. The advantage of an on line book club is that you actually get to talk about you know, your favorite book with your author. You actually get to correspond with your favorite author, you know, asking questions and then they ask you questions back. And so that's sort of you know, you can actually establish a personal relationship with an author which is great. Places you can go to find a book club that's right for you is you know, the first thing is you know, go to your local library. They usually host a number or book clubs. Or you can go to your local community center, YMCA, they usually host book clubs. Then you can go to different associations you know, depending on what kind of subject matter they deal with. They might have a book club. Then you can search on line for book clubs. It's also a great alternative. Then you know if you want to make this something that's you know, kind of a hobby or it kind of takes you out of your normal life, you know you can maybe you know, travel outside of your area a little bit, you know and see what's out there to meet new people you know, kind of make this a weekly you know, little trip, a little weekly trip. There are book clubs that are free but then it's on you to you know, buy the books that are required and also you know, be responsible, just be responsible for you know, paying whatever they cost. You don't get any discounts on it. It's on you. If you know, then on the other hand if you join a book club that requires a membership the memberships range from you know, twenty to you know up to a hundred or even more depending on you know, what kind of membership it is, depending on if authors are involved, you know. But what you get with that is you know you get you know, at least three to four books free you know, then you get you know, huge discount on the books that you purchase and just you know, a number of freebies. Because usually the you know, the on line book clubs that require memberships, usually hosted by publishers, is what they kind of want to you know, get their books and you know, their material out there, so there's a lot of freebies involved."