How My Library Enables My Reading Addiction

If I could, I would research books all day and do absolutely nothing but read my discoveries. But real life makes me take these long pauses to buy groceries, take the car to get an oil change and run a business.

But writing my second book does give me an excuse to research books all day and read them. Librarians have noticed me blathering on about how my library enables my reading addiction and one of them, a very cool one named, Yaika Sabat, asked if she could interview me about it. I said yes, so here it is:

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What is your favorite thing about using NoveList Plus? 

It is an invaluable resource. I have librarians that I'm a fan of because of their recommendations. Librarians will do those recs and you can hover over the book, and they put notes as to why they recommended it. It opened the door to so many new authors that I had never heard of before and then became an instant fan. For instance, after I read The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, I read every single one of the librarian recommendations on the sidebar. One of them was An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan, who is a British author. I've never heard of her. I read the book and it completely blew my mind. Now I am a total fan of this author and will read everything this author puts out. 

A few days ago, I finished an Alexis Henderson book, House of Hunger. I looked it up on NoveList Plus and then there were all these recommendations. I've been going through all of those.  

I found Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. I've been reading it all morning. I'm completely obsessed with it. Now, I'm going to recommend it to everyone. You never know when you’ll find your next favorite book or your next favorite author, and then you can snowball from there on NoveList Plus. 

Not only do you find these books in the list recommending similar titles, but it tells you at the bottom if it's available at your library, and you can get it with one click. It's the coolest thing ever.  A lot of times, it's a book that's not even available yet. It will say if it's forthcoming, and you can request it. If you're requesting a brand-new book, you might be first in line, which is almost impossible. At my library, for brand new titles, the waitlist is super aggressive. I somehow got The Berry Pickers! 

Read the whole interview HERE

and thank you Yaika and NoveList Plus!