Karin Slaughter Writes Story To Help Save Libraries

Best-selling author Karin Slaughter releases a new short story tomorrow - with all of her proceeds going to local libraries.

According to a press release issued by Slaughter's organization Save the Libraries, she has already generated more than $50,000 for libraries in DeKalb County, Georgia through various fundraising events.

The story, "Thorn in My Side", is being published only on the Kindle by Amazon's thriller imprint Thomas and Mercer, which is named after two cross streets near Amazon's Seattle headquarters.

Slaughter has experimented with web-only writing before, including placing a bonus chapter for her 2007 book "Beyond Reach" (known as "Skin Privilege" in the UK) on her website.

An outspoken library advocate, the author wrote a piece last year in the Atlanta Journal Constitution stating that "the funding of American libraries should be a matter of national security."

Comments

[Olderandwiser55]

08:54 PM on 08/28/2011

I haven't read any of her books but this is nice. I'm tempted. Wouldn't that be nice if more writers would do that-it could be contagious.

[LisaCACO]

06:07 PM on 08/28/2011

we could just raise taxes.

[themightyabealrd]

04:53 AM on 08/26/2011

For the second (to my knowledge) year in a row, the Seattle Public Library System is closing down for a week because of budgetary problems. Kudos to Slaughter and anyone else who makes an effort to publicize the virtues of libraries....and at the same time, helps to heighten the awareness of the funding crises that exist.

[newvision]

08:45 AM on 08/25/2011

I have an idea that I think would help save libraries that I have not heard one person mention. Please contact me for more details.

[Robert Fanney]

03:55 PM on 08/24/2011

Been to a few libraries in DeKalb on tour myself. Great systems, great people. It's great what Slaughter's doing for them. Hope it helps!

[garyd63]

11:25 AM on 08/24/2011

Thank you Karin Slaughter!

Some energetic and dedicated journalist/researcher/historian should create a collection of the stories great women and men have told in praise of public libraries and how they changed and influenced their lives. These stories are a dying strain in the bios of people today because libraries no longer represent or serve as intellectual redoubts. Today they more and more give us more and more of the same -- electronic pin ball machines cloaked in a rhetoric of "progress." Sad and self-defeating.

[Jackie K. Cooper]

10:15 AM on 08/24/2011

Karin is amazingly talented and she puts this talent to good use with her superb novels and projects such as this one. We should all follow her example.