Library patrons at Seattle Public Library can now check out the e-book edition of Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff (This One Thing, July 4, 2015). This literary nonfiction drama on the early women’s rights movement is in the Indie Washington anthology assembled by the new SELF-e program for public library systems in Washington state. Visitors to the Seattle Public Library website can discover Crossing Swords along with titles by other local authors in the BiblioBoard SELF-e Indie Washington section of the e-book catalog (scroll down the “Getting Started with e-Books” webpage).
This Seattle Public Library effort to connect library patrons with new independently published authors is a joint effort of BiblioLabs, a company founded by Mitchell Davis, the innovator behind Amazon’s CreateSpace, and Library Journal, a book review organization originally founded by Melvil Dewey, the innovator behind the Dewey Decimal system for library catalogs. Just launched this summer, the SELF-e program will be rolling out to more and more library systems all over the world, offering a new way for independent authors to be discovered.
Being available through the Seattle Public Library makes Crossing Swords discoverable to thousands of potential readers in the hometown of its author. This is yet one more way to build buzz, readership, and even book sales, launching this book to greater heights.
Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff is available for purchase on Amazon, or by special order from most local bookstores, and is available in e-book form for checkout through Seattle Public Library in the Indie Washington anthology.