Click here to read the Roadhouse Report for September 2010, with news of
*Though Not Dead,
*A Cold Day for Murder,
*author sightings, and
*no news at all about the Kate Shugak TV series.
(Don’t be frightened by that last statement — things are happening, I just can’t talk about them yet. But if you’ve got a spare virgin around you can sacrifice to your particular god for luck, you might do that…)
Go here to read librarian Nancy Pearl’s most recent feature on NPR talking about good books to read. She’s so well-read and so articulate and so enthusiastic, my to-read pile gets longer just listening to her.
And you can follow her on Twitter.
And, glory of glories, she has a blog. And it’s got an RSS feed. If, you know, you were into that kind of thing.
She even has her own action figure.
With Nancy on the case, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to be sitting around whining that they don’t have anything to read. Yes, you do! Or you do if you listen to Nancy.
In a comment posted to my Facebook page on August 5th, Debra Eisert writes, “As a former collection development librarian (i.e., I bought the fiction for a county library. cool job, huh?) let me say that patron requests are very closely looked at. If you have friends that also like Kate, have them request the books. I am *not* advocating stuffing the ballot box, but we all know how good these books are. IF they are on the shelf, people will read them and and wait for the next one. But if they don’t go out enough, subsequent books won’t purchased. Money is tight and getting tighter. Each book has to earn it place.”
May I just say, a very cool job. And very wise words, and not only about my books, about any of your favorite author’s books. Library orders are the only reason a lot of authors ever got into hardcover in the first place, and with the incredible shrinking library budget, the book that enough of you ask for at the circulation desk is the one they’re going to order.
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