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AUTHOR SQUARED
Spencer Quinn
Peter Abrahams

Two Authors chat about writing, books, and everthing in between...

I am excited to welcome Spencer Quinn, author of The Dog Who Knew Too Much, and Peter Abrahams, author of Quacky Baseball, to One the Bookcase!

Take it away guys!

Susanna Kearsley, author of The Rose Garden, tells us about what writing is like for her as a reader. Welcome to On the Bookcase, Susanna!

Fill a room with writers, and you’ll find we all work differently. There’s no “right” way to write. Just as a garden can have many paths that all meet at the same central fountain, we each have our own process for finding our way to the end of a book. Some like planning, and some work to music, while I work in silence and fly by the seat of my pants.

Please welcome author, Katherine Kindred to On the Bookcase as she offers some insight that coincides with her latest, and one of Reading Group Choices' featured books this month, An Accidental Mother. Take it away Katherine!

"Why I Write Amish Fiction"

Shelley Shepard Gray, author of The Survivor, explains why amish fiction is her choice genre!

Until we moved to southern Ohio almost twelve years ago, I had never seen a buggy. Actually, I had never thought much about the Amish. All that changed when my husband and I went on a Sunday drive just a few months after we moved here.

Emily Arsenault is the author of In Search of the Rose Notes, a suspenseful tale that weaves back and forth in time as the narrator tries to find the truth about her childhood babysitter’s disappearance. Publishers Weekly calls it an “emotionally complex and deeply satisfying read.” Please welcome Emily as she talks about her first book club:

THE BOOK CLUB PLAY

Planning on being in the Washington, D.C. area next month? If not, you and your book group may want to make plans, because Arena Stage is presenting The Book Club Play, by resident playwright Karen Zacarías (Legacy of Light) and directed by Molly Smith, from October 7th to November 6th in the Kogod Cradle.

"Guest Blog: How to Plan a Themed Book Club Discussion" by Catherine LeFebvre 

AUTHOR SQUARED
Gabrielle Burton
Chitra Divakaruni

Two Authors chat about writing, books, and everthing in between...

I am excited to welcome Gabrielle Burton, author of Impatient with Desire, and Chitra Divakaruni, author of One Amazing Thing, to One the Bookcase!

Take it away ladies!

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