E-mail your authors

I highly recommend e-mailing your authors. Several of the authors I read have contests and clubs. Frequently those same authors will mail you free stuff like bookmarks and fridge magnets. I know it doesn't seem like anything but it's kind of cool to come home from work and find that you have stuff in the mail from one of your favorite authors. On top of that the contests can be really cool. Kenyon was doing a contest to give away tickets to a convention. Evanovich was doing a contest to name book 12 in her series and you got a mention in it too. Check it out. Have fun.