"I've gotten good at sitting in this room and writing, but that doesn't get you a career, because no one would necessarily know. It's because of librarians or booksellers who make those connections and think, 'Oh, I know who might like this kind of book.'
"And just to put it over the top, my local indie is Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga [N.Y.], where my wife has worked since they opened. She's the events manager there. So we're not diversified at all in our family holdings. We're just all in on the indie book world."
--Steve Sheinkin, whose novel (co-authored with Ruta Sepetys) of The Bletchley Riddle (Viking Books for Young Readers), is the #1 November/December Kids' Indie Next List pick, in a q&a with Bookselling This Week