(Or maybe that's just my logic but, oh well!)
So this week, I'm lightening up on the writing advice and instead bringing you a list of my favorite literary inspired gifts for yourself or the writer you know. Hold on to your wallets, literary scholars, here we go!
1. Let's start with the most expensive and the most epic pick first. It's the Luxury Club Library Bookcase Chair by Alexander Love Designs in Brooklyn, NY. You can find it on ETSY. Wouldn't this be the best chair to sit in, surrounded by your love of books, your literary idols, your favorite tomes? Now picture yourself with a mug of coffee in one hand and your laptop poised on your lap, bursting with perfect prose. It's an ideal world in the Bookcase Chair. I just know it is. However, it will set you back about $2,950.00. So....put it on the list for when you get your first publishing advance :)
2. This next gift is a recent find of mine, but I absolutely LOVE this company and their wit. It's the Soap for Writer's Block by Whiskey River Soap Co. The site's description of the soap is amazing:
" If this soap doesn’t help you churn out regurgitated ideas and probably a vampire, I’ll eat my hat. It’s a fedora, by the way. Cool vampires wear fedoras now. Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it. Or in your book. Either way, you’re gonna need this soap ASAP. Your ideas are terrible."
Another of my favorite, definitely fueled to writers, is the Soap for Introverts. It's "a handcrafted bar dyed with a blend of nonconfrontational ocean blues. And we didn’t bother scenting it. Because seriously, it’s not like you’re going anywhere anyway, right?"
They also churn out soaps to help you get into character like the Soap for Evil Dictators scented with the plight of the people, Soap for Geeks, and Soap for Hipsters.
Feeling a little dry after all this talk of bathing? Whiskey River Soap Co. makes all their scents into candles, because who has the time to stop wallowing in their own writer's block for a shower? Simply light, lean back, and let the ideas flow.
3. We've covered places to sit and things to smell, but every writer needs something to wear (that isn't pajamas). Here enters Appraising Pages and their shop of wonderful book-inspired t-shirts, jewelry, and extras (like this Albus Dumbledore banner). My favorite, and one that I've really been wanting to buy - HINT HINT gift givers in my life - is their Support Authors tee. Nothing says "I'm a starving artist" like daily encouragement of complete strangers to buy our books. Self-aggrandizing? Maybe. A beautiful option to wear to the store other than holey cotton shorts and a plaid shirt? Yes.
4. Need a little motivation? Check out Steal Like and Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon at Amazon. It's a great read for anyone who's looking to navigate creativity and creation in the digital age, anyone who needs to defend "where they got their ideas" to family members, and for those who are plum out of ideas.
5. Finally, the last gift on the list is something useful to eating and drinking the hours away while you rework that plot point in chapter three. I'm talking specifically of the mugs from The Literary Gift Company. Now, The Literary Gift Company isn't limited to mugs. They also sell apparel, jewelry, housewares, stationary, books, cards, and reading accessories. Pretty much a writers dream, right? Well, it gets better. Their mugs include the Penguin classics like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Grammar Mugs, and mugs that ask you please Go Away, I'm Writing and come with chocolate, so you won't have to leave your writing spot all day. Best of all, though, they carry Personalized Book Cover Mugs, where you choose the title and the author's name. I'm sure this was created to please those who love Penguin books they don't carry in their other listings, but really, we'd use it for ourselves. "The Great American Novel by Alyssa Nedbal"? I could work with that. So keep writing and keep this mug handy. You thought you wouldn't survive to see your book hit the classics shelf, but now you don't have to wait and hope. You can simply order.
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