I didn’t always love libraries. Shocker, isn’t it? Wouldn’t an avid reader and writer have fond memories of library visits, snuggled against mom during story times and carrying out as many books as her little arms could hold?
That would be closer to my own children’s memories. No, my memories are of a dark, dank, old place. Dull, musty, stern, and lifeless. It gave me the heebie-jeebies. In elementary school, I won a writing award sponsored by the library. Somewhere I have a newspaper clipping of me, sitting alongside the other winners, on the steps outside of the library. Some enormous trees grew outside the library, maybe sycamores. The steps and those trees were about as close as I liked to get to the place.
Flash forward several decades. Oh my goodness. That library. How it has changed. Looking at it now, I’d like to go back and give my younger self a good shake. What a treasure! See for yourself. I want to go and sit beneath those beautiful windows with a novel, glancing out at those giant trees from time to time. (In all fairness to my younger self, they’ve made a TON of improvements to the building and grounds. I barely recognize the place.)
Whether your local library is a place you want to get lost in, savoring the cozy, quiet moments among the book stacks or a place you want solely for grab-and-go reading, you can find the books you want there. Did you know libraries are happy to take your purchase requests? For physical books and e-books as well?
It may be an online form, a paper, or a visit to the circulation desk, but your library has a way for you to make requests. And that’s what the Stock the Shelves campaign, hosted by Chrism Press, is all about.
Stock the Shelves for Summer by requesting great books for your local library with @Chrism_Press #stocktheshelves Click To TweetI’ve joined the campaign, along with a group of authors, publishers, and other related groups, to flood our local libraries with fiction by Catholic and Orthodox authors, bringing out unique sacramental worldview to a wider audience.
You can help! If you’ve enjoyed any of my books, please share them with others by requesting them at your local library. It only costs a few minutes of your time. You can find all of the information you need on my titles here. (Scroll down the page a wee bit.)
Please also take a minute to visit the Stock the Shelves campaign homepage and check out other great Catholic and Orthodox authors. Thank you!
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