{"id":20350,"date":"2017-02-10T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20350"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:00:20","slug":"notes-from-the-teen-press-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=20350","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Teen Press Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"

BookPeople’s Teen Press Corps brings together more than a dozen opinionated, well-read, book lovers at the store every month to discuss books, trends, and all things YA. We keep them well supplied in ARCs, and they review books for us (in-store and online), interview touring authors, and liveblog at the annual Texas Teen Book Festival. We always take a break over the holidays, but they’ve just kicked off their new year, so we checked in with them to see what they’re looking for in 2017.
\nThe Teen Press Corps keeps us honest. We give them a ton of ARCs to choose from every month, but they read and write about what they want. They set their own agenda and are never afraid to give an unfiltered opinion to us or our customers. To take us into the new year on the right foot, we gave them some prompts and, as always, they had a lot to say!
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\nWe asked how what they see in the world right now shapes what they want to read. They said the current climate makes them want to:<\/p>\n