My Goodreads Pledge

Goodreads. Oh, goodreads. I love goodreads, but it's been a tumultuous, scary place lately, for both writers and reviewers. Scarier still, I'm both—with four years of reviewing under my belt and a novel forthcoming in 2013.

A few people have asked what we can do to heal the damage that's been done over the past year or so in the YA community. Initially, I thought I might draft some ethical guidelines for community participants, some suggestions or pronouncements on behavior. But when it comes ...