Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode! Our Legendaries are special guests that are an expert within their area of storytelling. Lourdes Montes was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico and currently resides in Charleston, SC. When she’s not being a cool YA librarian, she’s reading, doing homework for her MLIS, eating snacks, trying to talk someone into reading Gideon the Ninth or attempting to write scary stories.

In this episode you'll hear about:

• How to support your favourite authors through your local library.
• How Indie authors can access library resources for better circulation of their stories.
• How Lou got in trouble for reading Twilight in class (and how it prompted the rise of a Superhero Librarian).
• Gideon the Ninth, and Ghabiba's shame for not having read the series yet.
• Non-fiction book recommendations for interesting story research: Monsters. An Investigative Guide to Magical Beings, The Secret Lives of Colour, The Secret Life of Fungi, Crystal Lore, Legends & Myths, and All the Living and the Dead.
• How a great librarian can help foster the love of story in young readers.
• Little known library tips that can help you rethink how you approach story, both as a reader and a storyteller.

Special mentions include incredible artist, Molly Watt; Hugo Award winner, Alex E. Harrow's A witches guide to escape, a practical compendium of portal fantasies; Kerri Maniscalco's Stalking Jack the Ripper and Kingdom of the Wicked.

A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find her on Instagram or more of her creative work on Spotify. As ever, thank you dear listeners. Please consider leaving a review to support this podcast.

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Be brave, stay beastly.