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Ashley Poston rarely gets inspiration for her TBR list from her For You page.
Indeed, while the novelist’s work, including 2023’s The Seven Year Slip has made waves on BookTok and Bookstagram, she’s intentional about largely staying away from that community. And she has a thoughtful reason for it.
“It is a reader space,” Poston explained to E! News in an exclusive interview. “It’s not a writer space. I will absolutely interact if I am tagged or if I’m invited, but otherwise I’m like, ‘That is reader space.’”
The way she sees it, it’s important for readers to be able talk about books without authors weighing in.
“I try to keep a separation there,” she continued, “just because I don’t think that as a creative I should be in that space where they’re talking and chatting about a book, and they’re critiquing it, and they’re doing what a reader community does. I want that to be like a safe haven for them.”
