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Episode 327: Libraries & Indie Authors

Episode 327: Libraries & Indie Authors

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 In this week's episode, I discuss whether or not it is worthwhile for indie authors to pursue selling their books to libraries. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Mask, Book #8 in The Ghosts series, (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store: CAINAMASK The coupon code is valid through November 16, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook this fall, we've got you covered! Links mentioned in the show. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1vaexhe/librarian_need_what_from_authors_wanting_to_speak/ Ingram Spark: https://www.ingramspark.com/hubfs/Print%20Book%20Setup%20Guide.pdf TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 327 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 29th, 2026 and today I'm discussing whether or not indie authors should try to get their books in libraries. Before we start with that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Mask, Book #8 in The Ghosts series (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is CAINAMASK. That coupon code will be valid through November the 16th, 2026, so if you need a new audiobook for this fall, we have got you covered. I also have an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. My main project right now is Blade of Rifts, and I am 58,000 words into it as of this recording, hoping to get to 60,000 tomorrow. I think that puts me roughly halfway through. I think the rough draft will end up being around 110-115,000 words, but we will see when we get there. I'm hoping to have that out before American Thanksgiving at the end of November, if all goes well. My secondary project is Cloak of Silver, which will be the 16th book in the Cloak Mage series. I believe I am 5,000 words into that at the moment. Once Blade of Rifts is finished, Cloak of Silver will take over as my main project. That's probably going to end up being my first book of 2027, though if it's possible to get it out in December, I will do so, but we'll just see when we get there. In audiobook news, Leanne Woodward will soon be narrating Elven-Warlock. Hollis McCarthy has started work on Cloak of Frost, and Brad Wills is working on Blade of Visions, so we should have some new audiobooks before too much longer. The way these things tend to go is I'll go a long period without any new audiobooks and then they suddenly all arrive at once, but that is part of the fun of the experience. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:09 Main Topic of the Week: Libraries and Indie Authors Now let's move on to our main topic, libraries and indie authors. Writers love to talk about one of their big goals being able to get their books on a shelf in the library. Many writers feel like libraries are crucial to their success and spend a lot of time courting the attention of librarians. As it happens, the transcriptionist for the podcast was a librarian for quite a long span of time, so she offered to share her opinion on working with libraries as an indie writer. First, we're going to talk about interacting with libraries as an indie author and what makes sense and what's not worth your time. Then we're going to talk about the logistics of making your audiobooks available to library services like Hoopla and Libby. What are the pros and cons of making your ebooks available to the library? So let's start off with a [former] librarian's opinion on working with libraries. [Her opinion will be marked in italics in the transcript.] This section is wholly the opinion of our transcriptionist who offers her thoughts as a former librarian, but is not speaking on behalf of any of the libraries where she has previously worked. Her thoughts can be divided into three categories. #1: You're welcome to ask, but we can say no. One thing to understand immediately is that even librarians at smaller libraries are contacted multiple times a day by authors or publishers. We may not have the time to respond to every single request individually because we are busy. It's becoming less common that a library will buy a book for the sole reason that was written by someone in the community. Even a small town can have many local authors and with library budgets ranging from stretched to non-existent, it's probably not possible to buy all of the books written by local authors. Emailing every single person on staff at one library is a waste of time and is considered a bit rude. If you feel compelled to cold email libraries, you should just contact the acquisitions librarian or the librarian who specializes in your area (for example, the children's librarian for picture books) and you should not contact the library director with purchase requests unless it's a small ...
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