If you were to own a bookstore, what would it be like? How would you arrange the books? Would you serve coffee and food? Play music? Where would it be?

How do you find your next book to read?

Hello! I got overwhelmed by the process of getting ARCs when my book was first published--so many details, so much emotion. Now, I'm realizing the folly as sales have stalled. I am offering a pdf or an epub to folks willing to leave an honest review for my debut novel. It's epic fantasy and the first in a planned series of eight books. One of my protagonists will grow with the books. This one might seem a bit YA in some parts, but the rest of the series is not. Keeper has no spice, although there are a few kisses. The series itself will be closed door and fade to black. Here is the blurb for your perusal and the link to Amazon in case you want to read the other reviews. It has also been reviewed on Goodreads. Looking for escapist fantasy with a chosen family and two strong female protagonists—a bookish Princess coming of age and her guilt-wracked many-greats-grandmother? A complex mythos complete with four living goddesses, an evil god with tentacles, and one reluctant ghostly demigoddess who sews the universe together? Take a look at Keeper of the Gate. Be strong. Be deadly. Be the Queen who brings your people home. Froth covers Bess Sonnenberg’s long lost Kingdom. One touch, one breath of the noxious fog turns people into monsters, slaves to a dark God imprisoned beyond a shattered Gate. At five, Bess’s grandmother taught her how to cast firebolts. At eight, her grandfather placed her fallen mother’s sword in her hands. At twelve, she stepped to the frontier—shifting banks of poisonous Froth in a polluted land, monsters lurking in the mists, battle, blood… Froth doesn’t wait for a Princess to grow up. Will she survive long enough to become the Queen her people need her to be? Please, Lady of Hope, grant me your strength to lead my people home and shut the Gate forever, so my children need not become strong and deadly. https://a.co/d/evlG49w

What's the first book you remember reading and being in love with??

Do you like the idea of required reading, for example being made to read certain books for certain classes? Or would you prefer to have the reader pick their own books to read?