52: So... what'd we miss? With guest Book Expert Alison Morris

12/18/2021

My guest for this end-of-year show is Alison Morris. She's a book expert, and the Senior Director of Title Selection at FirstBook, a non-profit that provides literally millions of books to underserved kids (and so much more) -- we'll talk about it, and how YOU can support their vital mission. She's also here to give us a heads up about Books We Might Have Missed while we were all SOMEWHAT busy with other things, like, you know, a global pandemic. I'm going to ask her about trends she's seeing, award predictions, and SO much more. Join us, won't you?

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Show Notes

* The Literaticast has a Patreon. Throw in a buck and help support the show.
* Listen to the Book Friends Forever podcast, which often has guest star Alison Morris!
* Learn more aboutFirstBook and the FirstBook Marketplace
* We name-dropped Jess Keating - check out her books (and life coaching!)
* PW "Pandemic Missed Connections": Spotlighting special books you might have missed!
* Alison really did make a list of all the recent TREE books and ... whoo boy, that's a lotta trees!
* Check out the comic book store Jenn is obsessed with: Silver Sprocket in San Francisco!
* Alison's Podcast Rec: "Films to be Buried With"
* Jenn's Podcast Rec: "The Plot Thickens"
* Love Ted Lasso? Check out this cute keychain

Books We Discussed: Click covers to buy from Bookshop.Org

(not a 2020 or 2021 title - just a bonus!)

Award Predictions

(not a 2020 or 2021 title - just a bonus!)

20 Comments

Narges Fayaz link

8/23/2022 12:11:08 pm

Hello dear Jennifer

I’m Narges a freelance illustrator from Tehran.
I just want to say many thanks, your podcast is wonderful and really helpful and also I want to say thank you for putting transcripts because I’m not good at English so I can read it and translate it easily.

Thank you for taking the time
Best
Narges Fayaz

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