"I write things that would be very easy to just put in the corner, not face out, and wait for it to get remaindered. Instead, from the beginning, independent booksellers were the biggest champions. They are the only reason I have a career. They are the only reason my books got into the hands of enough readers for publishers to keep taking chances on me. They are the reason that my audience has grown from a teacup to a lake with this amazing depth and breadth, and I owe them everything."
--V.E. Schwab, whose novel Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Tor Books) is the #1 pick for the June Indie Next List, in a q&a with Bookselling This Week