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TOGETHER NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2021
Speaking of … gratefulness

I want to pay homage to all the Christian point a whole day can disappear when I realise I unavailable we no longer
publishers who generously send books to promised myself to be efficient. ‘Just record and make them available for BOOK FEATURE
Speaking Volumes, free of charge, to be pack … don’t open the book, don’t … ahhh, grantees to select.
evaluated for potentially featuring on our booklist. too late …’ I can be several chapters in before I SPEAKING VOLUMES
As a charity we are very reliant on the goodwill of remember that I’m trying to be efficient. Oh, the So, thank you,
people and organisations in our book publishing disappointment to have to place them in a box publishers, for helping
industry/family. I’m often blowing the trumpet for and seal it. us create the best lists
bookshops that go the extra mile in support of the possible. We will have
grant scheme, but now I’m turning the spotlight Our panellists can take time and be more a brand new list ready
on publishers. thorough, reading the books from cover to cover. with our equally brand
We need books that will appeal to people with new website in 2022. Paula Renouf
The process begins with requesting recently little or no faith, so title, design, typeset, style and Providing your books
published books in the politest way possible, content are rigorously scrutinised. willingly is a vital link in the
hoping they don’t mind me asking to receive the chain that makes what we do possible. And when
books for free. Yet always, everyone responds It gets even more difficult once the panel’s those books are in the hands of a lost prisoner, a
so positively and helpfully. I recently sent an recommendations return. Collating a balanced list lonely pensioner or a bereaved child, doesn’t that
embarrassingly long list of books I wanted to one so that there aren’t twenty books on prayer and make it all worth it?
publisher, only to be asked if there were any more just one on bereavement, for example, means
I needed. I sent two further pages! that sometimes excellent books may be rejected.
Eventually, a workable list comes together. At
It is then, with great pleasure, that I sit on a floor this point, we load the details on to the website
full of books, recording and sorting them into with the help of KingswayCLC who link the ISBNs
piles ready to send to our expert panellists. At this with its stock system so that if books become

‘ So, thank you, publishers, for helping us create the best
lists possible.’

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