Junior Library Guild
Very nice news on the book front. Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer is a Junior Library Guild Selection! This makes me very happy. Junior Library Guild is a small but venerable company that serves small public libraries and school libraries across the country. Essentially, JLG helps librarians by acting as a screening service, picking out new books that librarians might otherwise not be aware of, and they do it with less prejudice to hype than other book clubs or reviewers. It’s like having someone you trust build your netflix queue for you. Then depending on how many groups a librarians subscribes to (JLG is composed of about 20 groups, mostly defined by age), the books will arrive in fruit-of-the-month-club fashion every month. Because JLG makes its selections with unusual objectivity, they are more likely to give a break to a first-time or little-known author. The deal won’t make me wealthy, but it’ll always be a source of pride to say I’m a JLG author.