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Why Your Favorite Bookish Creators are Starting Literary Services

Readers For Accountability, Percival Everett and More!

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Kyle Colley
March 19, 2024

Happy Tuesday!

You might have noticed the community feed on Bookum underwent an early weekend maintenance period, but it's back up now and faster!

Make sure to update your app in the Apple or Google Play Store today for the new version! (Please note we will do this periodically to improve and enhance the app experience!)

Also, check out our latest podcast episode with Melissa Saavedra Founder of Steamy Lit, Steamy LitCon and new romance bookstore in South Florida.

Table of Content:

  • 📚 Readers for Accountability and Bride Nooks

  •  📺 Bookish Literary Services

  • 📖 New Percival Everett Book

Let’s Get Started!

This Week On Bookum:

As you know, Bookum is "Where Bookish Conversations Happen"™ (cool tagline, right😊?), and we are super excited to announce that the awesome people at 'Readers For Accountability' are hosting a live Community Conversation on Nooks Thursday!

'Readers For Accountability' is an influencer collective dedicated to inspiring readers, reviewers, authors, and industry professionals to demand space for marginalized communities in the publishing industry.

Join the conversation at 2 PM EST on Thursday (Nook will appear on the Discover feed at 2 PM EST - click 'See All').

If you are into Vampyre, Alpha Werewolf, and Paranormal Romance, join us on Thursday Night Nooks for a bookish creator-led conversation on Ali Hazelwood's Bride!

The group talk kicks off at 7 PM EST Thursday! Bring your spiciest Bride takes to the convo!

Bookum - Where Bookish Conversations Happen™

Bookum (Shorthand for “Book Community”) is a dynamic social book clubbing and networking platform for readers and authors alike.

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This Week in The Book World:

Over the past few years, there has been a growing trend of Bookish Content Creators starting Literary Services.

Like the great investigative journalists that we are🕵️‍♂️😊, we decided to put on our brim hat and glasses to get to the bottom of this.

Two questions to solve: What are Literary Services? and why are bookish content creators starting them?

To answer question one, we did what all great millennials do and headed to Google.

Literary services include but are not limited to manuscript evaluations (feedback, editing, formatting, etc.), plot development, line editing, marketing, ghostwriting, self-publishing uploading to name a few.

Seems easy to understand the importance of these services… but why now and why bookish content creators?

For answer question two, we did what all great Gen Z people do and headed to TikTok.

Last week, Bookish content creator KimmyBooks announced that she was opening up her literary services and the answer to the question became clear.

It is also at the heart of why we started Bookum, as bookish content creators in the space ourselves.

Bookish content creators are realizing just how much value and expertise they have acquired from being daily readers and building a massive community of 1K up to 1 million+ followers.

In doing so, a book content creator like KimmyBooks, for example, who has close to 300K followers across social media, can help an indie author or a traditionally published author gain access to tens of thousands (if not millions) of eyes from her marketing and endorsement.

Additionally, being a daily reader, she has a unique taste for character development, plot, spice in romance, what the reading community is asking for, etc., etc.

In a world that is becoming more story, community and creator-led, it makes sense to partner with a creator(s) that has real relationships with the community!

At Bookum, our focus is to enable creators to monetize their content, build tools for a deeper community engagement, and forge genuine fan connections through membership/books clubs!

Creators can also start their own literary services space through Bookum Membership Clubs today - www.bookumapp.com

This Week in Publishing:

Okay, never give us the brim hat again; otherwise, this newsletter will be a blog post🤣

This week, James, a highly anticipated book by Percival Everett (author of Erasure, the book recently adapted into the Oscar-Winning Film American Fiction) is out, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved character Jim.

Everything Percival Everett writes is worth reading for the most part, and this is another book getting a lot of love for its incredible story!

Add it to your TBR (to be read) list today on Bookum and start a Book Club to discuss with friends!

James by Percival Everett

Add James to your TBR List on Bookum

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See you next week!

Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Melissa Saavedra announces new Romance Book Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4qTtL_LWCA/?hl=en