We’ll just start with this: I have self-published several books, and while I won’t call any of them “good,” I will call them “competent” and “reasonably deserving of some library shelf space.”
I agree with everything in this column and I'm happy to also say that Iron Maiden's Powerslave has a home in my library system's collection (although for how much longer with the way we're decimating our music collection, I don't know).
You make several great points and I love the idea of a review committee (although that also means maybe securing multiple copies of a title to decide on whether to include it or not). I'm actually going to take steps today to see how difficult this would be to implement (and hopefully not make my co-worker who buys most adult fiction) mad at me.
That'd be super cool! I feel like there might be some folks enthusiastic about the work! They wouldn't necessarily need to read the entire book all the way through, I'd reckon, just kind of make sure it's looking pretty good early on.
I'm so glad to hear Maiden is still strong out there in the world. For now, anyway...
I agree with everything in this column and I'm happy to also say that Iron Maiden's Powerslave has a home in my library system's collection (although for how much longer with the way we're decimating our music collection, I don't know).
You make several great points and I love the idea of a review committee (although that also means maybe securing multiple copies of a title to decide on whether to include it or not). I'm actually going to take steps today to see how difficult this would be to implement (and hopefully not make my co-worker who buys most adult fiction) mad at me.
Thanks, as always, for the food for thought!!
That'd be super cool! I feel like there might be some folks enthusiastic about the work! They wouldn't necessarily need to read the entire book all the way through, I'd reckon, just kind of make sure it's looking pretty good early on.
I'm so glad to hear Maiden is still strong out there in the world. For now, anyway...