(Jeff William) Griffin Wells
@griffinsignal.bsky.social
Author in the Signalverse. Co-author with @heavycrownpress of the Signal Series. I like my coffee ☕️ black. As in Blackthorn. #noir #booksky #shadows
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https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Between-Us-Daughter-Discovery-ebook/dp/B0FPBVHS2K
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https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Between-Us-Daughter-Discovery-ebook/dp/B0FPBVHS2K
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A short story about bookstores, self-published books, and what can happen when you ask for help instead of scrolling.
A short story about bookstores, self-published books, and what can happen when you ask for help instead of scrolling.
January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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A short story about bookstores, self-published books, and what can happen when you ask for help instead of scrolling.
A short story about bookstores, self-published books, and what can happen when you ask for help instead of scrolling.
Reposted by (Jeff William) Griffin Wells
Friendship isn’t random, and it isn’t always easy.
It forms through emerging identities—through who we are becoming, not just who we already are.
This piece reframes friendship as something shaped by shared becoming, rather than luck or failure.
🎁🔗
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It forms through emerging identities—through who we are becoming, not just who we already are.
This piece reframes friendship as something shaped by shared becoming, rather than luck or failure.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
Opinion | I Study Friendship. Here’s How You Make Lasting Friends.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Friendship isn’t random, and it isn’t always easy.
It forms through emerging identities—through who we are becoming, not just who we already are.
This piece reframes friendship as something shaped by shared becoming, rather than luck or failure.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
It forms through emerging identities—through who we are becoming, not just who we already are.
This piece reframes friendship as something shaped by shared becoming, rather than luck or failure.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
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Chapter Six is live.
Not belief.
Hope stitched to fear.
A flooded hospital.
An evacuation truck.
A tether that holds anyway.
🌊📖 #WhenTheWindTurned
Chapter Six is live.
Not belief.
Hope stitched to fear.
A flooded hospital.
An evacuation truck.
A tether that holds anyway.
🌊📖 #WhenTheWindTurned
When the Wind Turned (6)
A Katrina family story / Chapter Six
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January 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Chapter Six is live.
Not belief.
Hope stitched to fear.
A flooded hospital.
An evacuation truck.
A tether that holds anyway.
🌊📖 #WhenTheWindTurned
Chapter Six is live.
Not belief.
Hope stitched to fear.
A flooded hospital.
An evacuation truck.
A tether that holds anyway.
🌊📖 #WhenTheWindTurned
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Before asking why the monks walk here, it’s worth asking who needs waking up.
If the monks walking for peace make you uncomfortable, that might be the point.
Before asking why the monks walk here, it’s worth asking who needs waking up.
If the monks walking for peace make you uncomfortable, that might be the point.
Why The Monks Walk Here
Last Thoughts on the Road to Meaning
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January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Before asking why the monks walk here, it’s worth asking who needs waking up.
If the monks walking for peace make you uncomfortable, that might be the point.
Before asking why the monks walk here, it’s worth asking who needs waking up.
If the monks walking for peace make you uncomfortable, that might be the point.
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I hosted a meta-literary séance and let classic authors “review” The Signal Between Us.
Mark Twain insisted on having the last word.
Obviously.
I hosted a meta-literary séance and let classic authors “review” The Signal Between Us.
Mark Twain insisted on having the last word.
Obviously.
If They Could Read It
A Meta-Literary Salon Responds to The Signal Between Us
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I hosted a meta-literary séance and let classic authors “review” The Signal Between Us.
Mark Twain insisted on having the last word.
Obviously.
I hosted a meta-literary séance and let classic authors “review” The Signal Between Us.
Mark Twain insisted on having the last word.
Obviously.
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Some stories are winter stories—not because they’re cold, but because they stay lit even when everything else goes dim.
The Signal Between Us is that kind of story. A father, a daughter, a second chance neither of them saw coming.
Perfect for these short, quiet days.
Some stories are winter stories—not because they’re cold, but because they stay lit even when everything else goes dim.
The Signal Between Us is that kind of story. A father, a daughter, a second chance neither of them saw coming.
Perfect for these short, quiet days.
The Signal Between Us: A Father/Daughter Discovery Story
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December 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Some stories are winter stories—not because they’re cold, but because they stay lit even when everything else goes dim.
The Signal Between Us is that kind of story. A father, a daughter, a second chance neither of them saw coming.
Perfect for these short, quiet days.
Some stories are winter stories—not because they’re cold, but because they stay lit even when everything else goes dim.
The Signal Between Us is that kind of story. A father, a daughter, a second chance neither of them saw coming.
Perfect for these short, quiet days.
The kind that doesn’t announce itself loudly —
just opens a door, lets the air change,
and trusts the reader to feel what’s gathering at the edges.
just opens a door, lets the air change,
and trusts the reader to feel what’s gathering at the edges.
New chapter dropping at 10 AM CST.
Slow-rising tension that mirrors real life—storms (literal and metaphorical) gather long before they break.
I’d love to hear what’s resonating with you.
Stories feel different when we weather them together.
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Slow-rising tension that mirrors real life—storms (literal and metaphorical) gather long before they break.
I’d love to hear what’s resonating with you.
Stories feel different when we weather them together.
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When the Wind Turned
A Katrina Family Story
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December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The kind that doesn’t announce itself loudly —
just opens a door, lets the air change,
and trusts the reader to feel what’s gathering at the edges.
just opens a door, lets the air change,
and trusts the reader to feel what’s gathering at the edges.
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Chapter Two of When the Wind Turned arrives Dec 10.
A Katrina family story about fear, resilience, and the split-second decisions that save us — or don’t.
Read Chapter One now.
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A Katrina family story about fear, resilience, and the split-second decisions that save us — or don’t.
Read Chapter One now.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Chapter Two of When the Wind Turned arrives Dec 10.
A Katrina family story about fear, resilience, and the split-second decisions that save us — or don’t.
Read Chapter One now.
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A Katrina family story about fear, resilience, and the split-second decisions that save us — or don’t.
Read Chapter One now.
open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...
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Just launched a new Heavy Crown Press serial:
When the Wind Turned: A Katrina Family Story.
A quiet, character-driven exploration of storm memory, displacement, and the ties that hold a family together when everything else is taken.
Weekly chapters on Wednesdays.
Just launched a new Heavy Crown Press serial:
When the Wind Turned: A Katrina Family Story.
A quiet, character-driven exploration of storm memory, displacement, and the ties that hold a family together when everything else is taken.
Weekly chapters on Wednesdays.
WHEN THE WIND TURNED
A KATRINA FAMILY STORY
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December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Just launched a new Heavy Crown Press serial:
When the Wind Turned: A Katrina Family Story.
A quiet, character-driven exploration of storm memory, displacement, and the ties that hold a family together when everything else is taken.
Weekly chapters on Wednesdays.
Just launched a new Heavy Crown Press serial:
When the Wind Turned: A Katrina Family Story.
A quiet, character-driven exploration of storm memory, displacement, and the ties that hold a family together when everything else is taken.
Weekly chapters on Wednesdays.
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“Every silence holds a signal.”
If The Signal Between Us has resonated with you, I’d be deeply grateful for a quick Amazon review. We’re at 11 and hoping to reach 15 this week — those words make a real difference for indie authors.
💬 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPBVHS2
If The Signal Between Us has resonated with you, I’d be deeply grateful for a quick Amazon review. We’re at 11 and hoping to reach 15 this week — those words make a real difference for indie authors.
💬 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPBVHS2
www.amazon.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“Every silence holds a signal.”
If The Signal Between Us has resonated with you, I’d be deeply grateful for a quick Amazon review. We’re at 11 and hoping to reach 15 this week — those words make a real difference for indie authors.
💬 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPBVHS2
If The Signal Between Us has resonated with you, I’d be deeply grateful for a quick Amazon review. We’re at 11 and hoping to reach 15 this week — those words make a real difference for indie authors.
💬 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPBVHS2
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From Substack Notes: It’s ironic that the day we make our case against GoodReads, two readers find the signal & deliver 5-star reviews for The Signal Between Us. On GoodReads. Maybe that’s the point: even where there’s noise, the signal can still connect.
From Substack Notes: It’s ironic that the day we make our case against GoodReads, two readers find the signal & deliver 5-star reviews for The Signal Between Us. On GoodReads. Maybe that’s the point: even where there’s noise, the signal can still connect.
Ashley Rovira (@heavycrownpress)
Of course it happens this way — the day we make our case against Goodreads, two readers there write about The Signal Between Us with such clarity and grace that it reminds me why I keep sending it out...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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From Substack Notes: It’s ironic that the day we make our case against GoodReads, two readers find the signal & deliver 5-star reviews for The Signal Between Us. On GoodReads. Maybe that’s the point: even where there’s noise, the signal can still connect.
From Substack Notes: It’s ironic that the day we make our case against GoodReads, two readers find the signal & deliver 5-star reviews for The Signal Between Us. On GoodReads. Maybe that’s the point: even where there’s noise, the signal can still connect.
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After the criticism came something better — new Goodreads reviews for The Signal Between Us.
🔗 www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thoughtful, generous, unexpected. Proof that listening reaches farther than arguing ever will.
🔗 www.heavycrownpress.com/p/catalog-of...
#substack 📡 @SubstackInc
🔗 www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thoughtful, generous, unexpected. Proof that listening reaches farther than arguing ever will.
🔗 www.heavycrownpress.com/p/catalog-of...
#substack 📡 @SubstackInc
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
After the criticism came something better — new Goodreads reviews for The Signal Between Us.
🔗 www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thoughtful, generous, unexpected. Proof that listening reaches farther than arguing ever will.
🔗 www.heavycrownpress.com/p/catalog-of...
#substack 📡 @SubstackInc
🔗 www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thoughtful, generous, unexpected. Proof that listening reaches farther than arguing ever will.
🔗 www.heavycrownpress.com/p/catalog-of...
#substack 📡 @SubstackInc
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My fictional family is thriving.
I’m somewhere between drafts, coffee, and denial.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Intermission: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
My fictional family is thriving.
I’m somewhere between drafts, coffee, and denial.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Intermission: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
Intermission: The Noise That My Characters Stole
Filed under: Writing Life / Character Obsession / Meta Confession
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November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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My fictional family is thriving.
I’m somewhere between drafts, coffee, and denial.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Intermission: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
My fictional family is thriving.
I’m somewhere between drafts, coffee, and denial.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Intermission: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
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Character development: 10/10
Author discipline: 0/1
Author discipline: 0/1
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Character development: 10/10
Author discipline: 0/1
Author discipline: 0/1
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Once the encyclopedia was an anchor of knowledge.
Now even the roots are contested ground.
Reality, Rewritten No. 1 — “The Epistemic Cold War”
When authority stops being peer-reviewed and starts being algorithmic, truth itself trembles.
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Now even the roots are contested ground.
Reality, Rewritten No. 1 — “The Epistemic Cold War”
When authority stops being peer-reviewed and starts being algorithmic, truth itself trembles.
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Reality, Rewritten No. 1: The Epistemic Cold War: From Britannica to the Algorithm
A conversation between Ashley Rovira and Griffin Wells On the Epistemic Cold War
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November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Once the encyclopedia was an anchor of knowledge.
Now even the roots are contested ground.
Reality, Rewritten No. 1 — “The Epistemic Cold War”
When authority stops being peer-reviewed and starts being algorithmic, truth itself trembles.
open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...
Now even the roots are contested ground.
Reality, Rewritten No. 1 — “The Epistemic Cold War”
When authority stops being peer-reviewed and starts being algorithmic, truth itself trembles.
open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...
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Not everyone survives the blaze.
Some choose the ember instead — the quiet fire that doesn’t consume, the one that keeps meaning alive.
On Dylan, the Landy photograph, and the courage to step back:
Not everyone survives the blaze.
Some choose the ember instead — the quiet fire that doesn’t consume, the one that keeps meaning alive.
On Dylan, the Landy photograph, and the courage to step back:
Bob Dylan and the Meaning Beneath the Noise
When the world demanded fire, he discovered well and the ember endured. The quiet truth outlived the blaze.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Not everyone survives the blaze.
Some choose the ember instead — the quiet fire that doesn’t consume, the one that keeps meaning alive.
On Dylan, the Landy photograph, and the courage to step back:
Not everyone survives the blaze.
Some choose the ember instead — the quiet fire that doesn’t consume, the one that keeps meaning alive.
On Dylan, the Landy photograph, and the courage to step back:
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The Scapegoat Files
Collected Fragments About an Exiled Daughter
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November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I’ve been thinking about the stories we inherit—
not the ones told aloud, but the ones carried in silence.
This new piece is written in fragments.
Because that’s how it lived.
The Scapegoat Files.
I’ve been thinking about the stories we inherit—
not the ones told aloud, but the ones carried in silence.
This new piece is written in fragments.
Because that’s how it lived.
The Scapegoat Files.
The Scapegoat Files
Collected Fragments About an Exiled Daughter
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November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I’ve been thinking about the stories we inherit—
not the ones told aloud, but the ones carried in silence.
This new piece is written in fragments.
Because that’s how it lived.
The Scapegoat Files.
I’ve been thinking about the stories we inherit—
not the ones told aloud, but the ones carried in silence.
This new piece is written in fragments.
Because that’s how it lived.
The Scapegoat Files.
J-school bound Owen Aubrey!
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Zoe’s first love begins quietly — with a poem, a café, and a British editor who sees her for who she is.
Recognition, not rescue.
That’s the signal.
Zoe’s first love begins quietly — with a poem, a café, and a British editor who sees her for who she is.
Recognition, not rescue.
That’s the signal.
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
J-school bound Owen Aubrey!
What happens when the ghosts of Twain, Woolf, Austen, Baldwin, Hugo, and the Brontës all read the same modern novel?
I wrote the impossible conversation.
Mark Twain ends the night with a line that nearly burned the candle down.
I wrote the impossible conversation.
Mark Twain ends the night with a line that nearly burned the candle down.
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I hosted a meta-literary séance and let classic authors “review” The Signal Between Us.
Mark Twain insisted on having the last word.
Obviously.
I hosted a meta-literary séance and let classic authors “review” The Signal Between Us.
Mark Twain insisted on having the last word.
Obviously.
If They Could Read It
A Meta-Literary Salon Responds to The Signal Between Us
substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What happens when the ghosts of Twain, Woolf, Austen, Baldwin, Hugo, and the Brontës all read the same modern novel?
I wrote the impossible conversation.
Mark Twain ends the night with a line that nearly burned the candle down.
I wrote the impossible conversation.
Mark Twain ends the night with a line that nearly burned the candle down.
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The Griffins have arcs that span decades.
The real world still hasn’t settled healthcare.
New intermission post: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
The real world still hasn’t settled healthcare.
New intermission post: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
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My fictional family is thriving.
I’m somewhere between drafts, coffee, and denial.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Intermission: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
My fictional family is thriving.
I’m somewhere between drafts, coffee, and denial.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
Intermission: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
Intermission: The Noise That My Characters Stole
Filed under: Writing Life / Character Obsession / Meta Confession
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November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Griffins have arcs that span decades.
The real world still hasn’t settled healthcare.
New intermission post: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
The real world still hasn’t settled healthcare.
New intermission post: “The Noise That My Characters Stole.”
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For readers who like their stories with torque and tenderness.
🏍️🧇☕️
Books with Ducatis (and Maybe Waffles)
Add your favorites: motorcycles, coffee, and love that lingers after breakfast.
👉 goodreads.com/list/show/236675
🏍️🧇☕️
Books with Ducatis (and Maybe Waffles)
Add your favorites: motorcycles, coffee, and love that lingers after breakfast.
👉 goodreads.com/list/show/236675
https://goodreads.com/list/show/236675
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
For readers who like their stories with torque and tenderness.
🏍️🧇☕️
Books with Ducatis (and Maybe Waffles)
Add your favorites: motorcycles, coffee, and love that lingers after breakfast.
👉 goodreads.com/list/show/236675
🏍️🧇☕️
Books with Ducatis (and Maybe Waffles)
Add your favorites: motorcycles, coffee, and love that lingers after breakfast.
👉 goodreads.com/list/show/236675
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The stories that stay with us aren’t always the loudest — they just know how to listen.
Family Stories That Stay With You →
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Family Stories That Stay With You →
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Family Stories That Stay With You (30 books)
30 books based on 1 votes: Spare by Prince Harry, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, The Signal Between Us: A Father/Daughter Discovery Story by Ashley Rov...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The stories that stay with us aren’t always the loudest — they just know how to listen.
Family Stories That Stay With You →
www.goodreads.com/list/show/23...
Family Stories That Stay With You →
www.goodreads.com/list/show/23...
We’re not leaving Goodreads—we’re listening. Turns out readers still want signal over noise.
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From Substack Notes: It’s ironic that the day we make our case against GoodReads, two readers find the signal & deliver 5-star reviews for The Signal Between Us. On GoodReads. Maybe that’s the point: even where there’s noise, the signal can still connect.
From Substack Notes: It’s ironic that the day we make our case against GoodReads, two readers find the signal & deliver 5-star reviews for The Signal Between Us. On GoodReads. Maybe that’s the point: even where there’s noise, the signal can still connect.
Ashley Rovira (@heavycrownpress)
Of course it happens this way — the day we make our case against Goodreads, two readers there write about The Signal Between Us with such clarity and grace that it reminds me why I keep sending it out...
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We’re not leaving Goodreads—we’re listening. Turns out readers still want signal over noise.