Welcome to this
PLA-sponsored
program!
Readers’ Advisory in the Ebook Era:
Integrated Advisory Services
Dr. Jessica E. Moyer, Assistant Professor, UW
Milwaukee
Alicia Ahlvers, Branch Manager, Kansas City
Public Library
Christy Cathro Goodnight, Media Librarian,
Utah Valley University
Sponsored by PLA
Integrated Advisory
• IA is: a way of providing advisory
services to library users that
includes all different formats and
media while staying focused
around a genre
• It includes everything that can
be found in a modern library:
audiobooks, fiction and
nonfiction books (YA and adult),
graphic novels, videogames, TV
shows, movies, magazines and
even podcasts
Integrated Advisory: Breaking
Through the Book Boundary to Better
Serve Library Users, Jessica E. Moyer,
ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2010
Key Elements of IA
• Plot
– Police procedural
• Character
– Sherlock Holmes
• Theme
– Crime, Setting
– Science fiction, Technology
– Romance, Many Ways of Love
Crime: Setting: Scandinavia
• Ystad, Sweden, Kurt Wallander (bk, tv)
• Fjallbacka, Sweden, Ericka Falck series by
Camilla Lackberg (bk)
• Reykjavik, Iceland, Arnaldur Indridason (bk,
mv)
• Oslo, Norway, Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo
• Greenland and Denmark, Smilla’s Sense of
Snow (bk, mv) by Peter Hoeg
• Copenhagen, The Killing (tv)
. . . . And Beyond
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Aberdeen, Scotland (bk) Stuart Macbride
London, Sherlock Holmes (bk, mv, tv)
Sutherland, Scotland, Hamish Macbeth (bk, tv)
Baltimore, Maryland, Homocide, Life on the
Street (tv, bk, mv)
• Botswana, No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Crime: Character: Lone Wolves
• Erlendur, Arnaldur Indridason (bk)
• Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood (mv)
• Carl Morck of Dept Q in Keeper of Lost Causes
by Jussi Adler Olsen (bk)
• Jack Reacher, Lee Child (bk, mv)
• Jimmy McNulty, The Wire (tv)
• Sin City by Frank Miller (gn, mv)
What’s Hot In Romance!
From Steampunk to Romantica.
What are your readers craving?
Essential Elements of Every Romance
• One-third of romance book buyers surveyed
currently read e-books, while 69 percent do
not.
• Of those e-book readers, 9 out of 10 are
actually using an e-reading device to read
romance e-books in particular.
• Of those who are not currently reading or
buying e-books, a little over half remain quite
unlikely to do so any time soon. However, 41
percent are "somewhat likely" and may read
e-books in the near future.
Accessed from RWA website 6/14/2012
• The top reason (51 percent) for not reading
e-books is that they "prefer the experience
of a printed book," while
• 26 percent "don't see a need" and
• 19 percent say the "cost of getting a device
is too high."
• Only 2 percent claimed "too many
restrictions on reusing or swapping the
content" as a reason not to read e-books.
Accessed from RWA website 6/14/2012
Romance Subgenres (E-book vs.
Print)
Accessed from RWA website 6/14/2012
Long-term Trends
Romantic
Suspense
Historical
Contemporary
Paranormal
Trends to Watch
Steampunk
Post-Apocalyptic
Erotic/Romantica
Amish
Historicals Still Dominate
Romantic Suspense
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Nora Roberts
Linda Howard
Pamela Clare
Julie Garwood
Suzanne Brockmann
Karen Rose
Cindy Girard
Contemporary
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Farrah Rochon
Julie James
Kristan Higgins
Rachel Gibson
Jill Shalvis
Lisa Kleypas
Shannon Stacey
Nora Roberts
Supernatural
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J.R. Ward
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kresley Cole
Thea Harrison
Larissa Ione
Marjorie Liu
Nalini Singh
Steampunk– Cutting edge SF
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Meljean Brook
Gail Dayton
Katie MacAlister
Gail Carriger
Zoe Archer
Amish
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Beverly Lewis
Shelley Shepard Gray
Cindy Woodsmall
Wanda Brunstetter
Beth Wiseman
Suzanne Fisher
Rosalind Lauer
And Amish Vampires?
Multi-Genre
Joss Ware
Isabel Cooper
Taylor Keating
Gail Carriger
Erotica
• Beautiful Disaster by
Jamie McGuire
• Zane
• Maya Banks
• Sylvia Day
• Lorelei James
• Anne Calhoun
• Joey Hill
• Lauren Dane
• Jaci Burton
M/M Erotica
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Josh Lanyon
Heidi Cullinan
Radclyffe
KA Mitchell
Timothy James Beck
Rob Byrnes
Evangeline Anderson
Willa Okati
BA Tortuga
Kate Steele
Fiction
• Historical authors:
Philippa Gregory and
Lauren Willig
• Mysteries with romantic
elements: Stephanie
Plum series by Janet
Evanovich
• Gothic Horror: The
Haunting of Maddy
Clare by Simone St
James
Games
• Nora Roberts Vision in White Online Game
- http://www.gamehouse.com/downloadgames/nora-roberts-vision-in-white
Games
• Mind Your Manners - http://www.mccordmuseum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/17
Nonfiction
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling
of Science and Sex by Mary
Roach
• The Pioneer Woman: Black
Heels to Tractor Wheels by
Ree Drummond
• Dear Jane Austen: A
Heroine’s Guide to Life and
Love by Patrice Hannon
• Beau Brummell: The
Ultimate Man of Style by Ian
Kelly
Movies
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Bridesmaids
The Notebook
Twilight
The Artist
Pride & Prejudice
The Sweetest Thing
Up
Romancing the
Stone
Television Shows
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Castle
True Blood
Friends
How I Met Your
Mother
• Rome
• Beauty and the Beast
• Moonlighting
Graphic Novels
• Love.com by Aya
Nakahara
• From Far Away by
Kyoko Hikawa
• Dragonborn by
Jade Lee
• Absolute Witch by
Kim Tae Yeon
Magazines
• True Romance Dorchester Press
• Best of Secrets
• Best of True
Confessions
• New Love Stories
• Super Charm
• True Love
Blogs and Podcasts
• True Romance Type Stories http://blogsoflove.com/
• Samples of Romance Novels http://www.theromanceclub.com/
• Harlequin Podcasts http://www.harlequin.com/articlelist.html?activeTab
=PODCAST
• The Romance Radio Network http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-romanceradio-network/id413655605
E-Books
• Carina Press
• http://www.allromanceebooks.com/
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Awestruck - www.awe-struck.net
Novelbooks Inc. - www.novelbooksinc.com
Amber Quill - www.amberquill.com
Hard Shell - www.hardshell.com
Atlantic Bridge - www.atlanticbridge.net
New Concepts www.newconceptspublishing.com
• Wings - www.wings-press.com
• Elora’s Cave – www.ellorascave.com
Fan Romance Websites
All About Romance http://www.likesbooks.com
Fan Romance Websites
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com
Fan Romance Websites
The Romance Reader http://www.theromancereader.com
Fan Romance Websites
Romance Writers of America (RWA)
http://www.rwanational.org
Fan Romance Websites
Dear Author - http://dearauthor.com/
Fan Romance Websites
Mrs. Giggles - http://www.mrsgiggles.com/
Survey Says?
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Questions? Email Jessica at
[email protected]
Download the slides at
jessicaemilymoyer.pbworks.com