Join us for an amazing night! Three teenage authors, Lexi Bassford, Libby Svenson and Gloria Tesch, will be here to talk about their wonderful books and to let us in on how and why they write. To read about Lexi Bassford's book, click here. For more information on Libby Svenson, click here. To read more about Gloria Tesch's books, click here. January 1, 2012
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 @ 6:30 PM -- Lexi Bassford, Libby Svenson and Gloria Tesch
Join us for an amazing night! Three teenage authors, Lexi Bassford, Libby Svenson and Gloria Tesch, will be here to talk about their wonderful books and to let us in on how and why they write. To read about Lexi Bassford's book, click here. For more information on Libby Svenson, click here. To read more about Gloria Tesch's books, click here. 
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They are all self-published. Anyone with a term paper, recipe, shoddy manuscript, diary, exercise journal, fan-fiction, three-paragraph-essay on what they did that summer, emo-driven poem could do what they did. Anyone.
That a library, any library, would support this seriously depresses me. Is there really nothing sacred? I would hope that an institution built for the introduction and preservation of literature, funded (I'm assuming) by taxpayers to continue that preservation, could find some better use of those funds. How about bringing in more books published the old-fashioned way, by the genuine sweat of author, agent, and editor before publication is even considered? Stop wasting the reading public's time and money.
Before I leave I feel compelled to add that it's mostly the "work" of Gloria Tesch I am opposed to being promoted. Lexi's work (without quotations), the little I've read of it, has genuine promise. Her sentences are well constructed, lyrical, and with a little more work I would not at all be surprised to see a book of hers appear under a major publisher's name. Lexi, if you read this, please forgo the self-publishing route. Study writing in university, get an MFA, travel, read great authors and write all you can (for practice). I promise, you'll know when your work has reached a professional level and then we will all be lucky to have it in our hands. Don't be blinded by the foolishness of self-publication and promotion. If you want to see where that will lead you, Google the girl there to your right in the above photograph. Yeah, you don't want that to happen to you.
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