✨Im Literary Anxious✨

𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲🕒: 1 minute

I’m sure you — dear reader — are probably not as aggressively Type A as I am (and if you are… are you okay? 😅). But even if you’re only a little Type A, you probably have your own flow when it comes to Bookstagram.

For me, it goes like this: I start a new book, and almost immediately I go hunting for the author’s Instagram. I want to follow them, and I want to drop their handle into the tracker I use for reviews, wrap-ups, and general bookish chaos.

Most of the time? Easy peasy.
Jane Doe = @JaneDAuthor or something equally intuitive.

But every once in a while… it turns into a full-blown scavenger hunt.

I’m clicking through the author’s website.
Scrolling footers.
Questioning reality.
Briefly wondering if this person exists at all.

Only to eventually realize one of two things:

A. They don’t have an Instagram (don’t @ me — it happens)
B. Their handle has absolutely nothing to do with their name
(which, listen — you do you, boo — but it does make you very hard to find)

Enter my nerd brain.

And thus: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘂𝗽 was born.

I don’t know what it is about a well-organized spreadsheet that brings me so much joy, but here we are. I put together this resource as a quick, searchable lookup for anyone trying to find an author’s IG without spiraling into fifteen open tabs.

It’s a live document, so it’ll keep growing over time. I’m even toying with the idea of adding a narrator tab down the road, because apparently I don’t know how to do things halfway.

If you’re someone who likes having this kind of info one click away, you can bookmark the 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘂𝗽 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 (future you will thank you). And if you find resources like this helpful, let me know — I’m always brainstorming my next spreadsheet-fueled project.

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