5 Authors Who Deserve WAY More Attention!

[@jeannareadsbooks8475]

just want to say that you're making so much progress with your voice! Even though it hasn't been long at all since you said it's something you're working on, you already sound so much more natural when you speak than you did in that video, keep it up!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Thank you so much 🥹

[@jeannareadsbooks8475]

@@WillowTalksBooks trans pride and all that, gotta hype the team

[@quinncrook6058]

Me: looks up all the writers My library apps: Sorry, who? In other news: local trans woman yells at Sun. Astronomers baffled as sun sets 2 hours early.

[@danielaweberdani]

booktube deserves more videos like this to highlight authors who don't get hyped because they don't follow any predictable literary trends publishers prefer to promote, great idea. 🌷 PS.: "I named my cat after her mother" sounds like unquestionable proof of a reader's admiration. 😅

[@enablingcuriosity]

Romantic Outlaws, by Charlotte Gordon, is a duel biography of Mary Shelley and Mary Wallstonecraft. I strongly recommend it, the influence Mary W had on Mary S, even though she died giving birth, is fascinating

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Sounds wonderful, thank you!

[@Dashen666]

You had me at "Firefly" 😁 Thank you for the recs

[@badfaith4u]

Thank you for talking about authors who you think deserve more visibility. Also, I didn't even notice you were having trouble with the sun in your videos.

[@BandysBooks]

Great list! The only book I’d previously heard of was Mary which I’ve seen reviewed once or twice on booktube. Also, I’ve been really getting into horror lately, so I’ll have to pick up your book soon. :)

[@Kimberly-oneminut]

Exactly what I didn’t need, for my TBR to increase significantly after watching several of your videos. 😂 Thank you for all the great recommendations ❤

[@jasps6549]

The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray and Storm Thief are two of my favourite novels and I recommend them to people all the time, yet I've never explored any further into Wooding's work. Your enthusiasm for him may be the kick up the butt I need to do so!

[@sarazepeda9128]

I was just about to comment about The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. Literally my favorite novel ever.

[@Ms.HGL.]

Playing catch up with some of your videos, always a pleasure 🫶

[@BookwormAdventureGirl]

Finger bone sounds interesting. Ohhh, Mary…. I need to read that! Thanks for these recs. 😊💙

[@cj1986x]

I only just learned of Chris Wooding myself, and picked out a couple of his books for my Goodreads TBR list because his books look very interesting, and some of my GR friends immediately put him on their TBR right after like he was new to them too lol. If I've seen anyone else talk about him, I've clearly forgotten. Good to hear something positive from someone who's read him. Aftershock was a book I saw talked about at the beginning of the year and was very interested in it, but now no one is talking about it and I had completely forgotten about it myself. Will have to add to my TBR so not to forget again.

[@SaveLockwoodNCo]

Another book that has a bit of a following but still a smaller fandom is a book called Lockwood and Co by Jonathan Stroud. Yes, it did have a Netflix show, but it was canceled after one season, and Netflix did nothing to promote it.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

That’s been recommended to me before but I haven’t checked it out yet! Thanks for the reminder :)

[@SaveLockwoodNCo]

@WillowTalksBooks Aww, yay!!! Of course. I can't recommend that book enough.

[@angelgirl976]

Yay more books for my TBR!!!

[@tinahatch7440]

Your taste is EXQUISITE and I can't wait to read these.

[@Agostoic]

Finger bone's fantastic, Aftershock on tbr atm. Good reviews as usual.

[@spinstercatlady]

Mary is on my bedside reading stack, and I am so excited to get to it! I've always found the time Mary S. spent with the family friend intriguing, so to read a fictional account of it with Sapphic love sounds phenomenal.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I have Ember Blade on my kindle, it was highly recommended by Merphy Napier on her channel.

[@mjearnshaw]

I actually bought Aftershock a couple of weeks ago and it's in my TBR list!

[@BobbyHall-eu1xv]

I did enjoy the first two Ketty Jay novels...which reminds me I need to continue the series!

[@badger-1984]

I keep checking to see if my library has Aftershock and keep being disappointed. I might have to suck it up and buy a copy myself. They do have The Ember Blade and my reservation is now at my local branch so I'll pick that up after I finish my current loans

[@erinh7450]

The first three of those were already on my GR TBR - which is so ridiculously large that there is no hope of finishing it before I shuffle off this mortal coil - but it's useful as I see this is not the first time these books have hit my radar. 🤓 I even own Retribution Falls! I just put a library hold on Aftershock - maybe I can squeeze it in to WiT month!

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

So The Ember Blade is like between LotR and GOT in terms of more character developtment that the one but not as griddy as the other. Yes, your love for japanese books 🌸✨️ is why you are my very first book channel and the start of my booktube journey in 2022.

[@Gillian.Ashcroft.66]

Whenever I think of " camp horror" I remember Carry On Screaming - beyond love that film😱

[@babettesfeast6347]

Please cover John Fowles. You will be stunned by The Magus

[@br1na332]

The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding (2018) Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi (2023) Aftershock by Zhang Ling (2010) (Shelly Bryant translation 2024) Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein: A Novel by Anne Eekhout (2023) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818) (Gates of Imagination Narration: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e167laWLi81ooK8si=54XyCuonH3_7zk2F) The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews (2024) The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews (2022)

[@lef0nda]

I loved Retribution Falls and all the books in that series! Do you have any other suggestions that are close to those? I've already read all the tie-in Firefly books ^___^

[@christinedugas3089]

Tales of the Ketty Jay series better than Firefly? You come at the king, you best not miss! (Added Retribution Falls - and Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein - to my wish list. And so it grows!) 😁

[@JTBCPFC]

You! You deserve way more attention! 😍

[@WillowTalksBooks]

🥹🥹🥹

[@rachel1021]

It's too bad the sun can't be taught a lesson 😔

[@eliotopian]

ive had leviathan on my tbr since before it came out. why have I not read it? shrug. tbr be tbr'ing

[@NadaOQ96]

Off-topic but you've mentioned recently that you're working on your voice, and it is noticeably softer in this video. I hope you continue making progress and get to the point you want 💜

[@ruth7855]

Going to read Chris Wooding . . .

[@1book1review]

I feel the need to defend booktube as The Ketty Jay series was talked about quite a lot when the books were published and the early 2010s.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I had no idea booktube was a thing back then

[@1book1review]

@@WillowTalksBooks It was smaller and you could really know everyone in the community. I think we started using the term booktube in 2011. But there were people talking about books long before that.

[@OliJeffery]

I've wanted to read Mary for ages but I haven't been able to find it, is it out in the UK now?

[@spinstercatlady]

Yes, try Blackwell's! That's where I purchased my copy and they have free shipping.

[@miriamschwegler8129]

And the Tbr grows... Your voice is very different in this video. Very soft.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Yay!

[@marcredskin7660]

Hey Willow! I'm really sorry if this questions is irrelevant here. But I wonder whether you can do a video about how to write/portray a transgender person in a fiction where the main topic is not about their transition or why they want to transition. or the main plot twist is not about the gender of the protagonist but the MC is a trans-person. how can a cis-writer approach this? Have you came across books like that? Thank you very much.

[@marcredskin7660]

ohhhh I should read your book first, I think. 😅😁

[@ashleydurning6071]

If you thought you saw someone looking at you funny in the West End on Saturday, I apologise! I was going to say “I watch your KZbin videos” but I was too slow. Sorry again! :)

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I DID! That was you?? LMAO next time 💜

[@ashleydurning6071]

It was. I had just been to a cocktail class on Ashton Lane so my reflexes were a bit slow lol.

[@BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

Comparing the leviathan to Rocky horror has clinched it for me! 🫦