As a writer, do you create blog buttons for your books? Have you had a lot of use for them, personally? Have you seen your fans making significant use of them?

As a reader, would you use a blog button for your favorite books? Would you put that kind of thing on your blog as support for the author?

As a blog reader, would you pay attention to a blog button promoting a book? What information would it need to have on it to intrigue you?

I had blog buttons made for my first novel, Red Rain. However, I didn't have much use for them myself - it works much better for me just to put a downsized picture of the cover in my sidebar. However, I had several of my friends use the buttons on their blog, so I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth it to order a button for my next book.

I am very visual. My eye is naturally drawn to blog buttons, banners, and the sort. I haven't had any experience making blog buttons for my books (probably because none of them are published), but I'd be willing to try it sometime.

I am the same as Elly. One of the key things I take notice of when visiting a blog is the blog buttons. Plus, when they are uniquely yours, it's always interesting to see when other blogs have used them, because I usually find myself saying, "Oh look! There's such-and-such's book! S/he must like it."

Plus, I love blog buttons in general, so often if I find a good thing, I'll turn it into a blog button and stick it on my own blog.

*notes that BushMaid was one of the people that used the Red Rain button*

Thanks for the replies!

I think they would be very effective on other people's blogs.

*grins* It was far too shiny to pass up nabbing. Plus I loved the book, so I had to. You know how I am with awesome shiny things.

Definitely. I only follow blogs made by friends anyways, and, for me, the most important thing that matters when I'm considering reading a book is word-of-mouth. I'm much, much more likely to read a book if a friend endorses it.

*nods* Thanks for the help, y'all!