![]() There are a lot of writers I enjoy who have done this. I wanted to spread it out and show different POVs from different locations. When I started this story, it seemed too large to focus on just one character. Roberts: I really enjoy writing from multiple POVs. Q: What was it like writing from multiple POVs, and is there one character in particular that you relate to? I really wanted to do something that focuses on both aspects. I’ve always been a fan of end-of-the-world movies and novels-but the events that lead up to the destruction are often more terrifying than what comes afterwards. Roberts: I’ve always found how events begin to be just as exciting as what comes afterwards. ![]() What drew you to writing about this specific time versus further down the road? ![]() Q: Much of today’s dystopian literature takes place long after civilization has ended, but in Dark Inside, your characters deal with the event as it happens-and its immediate aftermath. Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Jeyn Roberts ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her pale hair was crimped in stylized waves around her face and her pale eyes gazed soulfully into the distance. There was another underneath it, a studio portrait of a woman, her head tilted. “ Clemmie slid the picture back into the drawer. At 34, Clemmie, feeling like her life is nothing but a 70-plus hour work week, and a failed engagement, this intrigue becomes more than a distraction to the un-fulfilling, lonely details of her days. Entwining one generation’s story with that of another, from post-Edwardian British society to modern-day Manhattan to a coffee farm in Kenya, the long veiled secrets of a woman are unraveled.Ĭlementine Evans, a focused, driven law associate on the cusp of making partner in a large Manhattan firm, attends her beloved grandmother Adeleine’s 99th birthday and is accidentally enlightened to a family secret. In a departure from her Napoleonic spy romances of the Pink Carnation Series, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig ventures into new territory with The Ashford Affair. ![]() ![]() She says the book-writing process has birthed a number of songs too. “That’s kind of how all my chapters are broken down.”Īlong with Broken Horses, Carlile is working on the follow-up to her Grammy-winning album By the Way, I Forgive You. ![]() So, it’ll be like this experience, the catharsis and then the songs, the handful of songs that came from that experience,” Carlile says. “It is about the way certain profound experiences of my life have led to me creating important art for myself. In an interview with Rolling Stone this summer, Carlile described the book as an amalgamation of things. Due April 6th via Crown, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, the book follows Carlile through her childhood to becoming one of music’s most agile and hard-to-pin-down artists. ![]() Brandi Carlile has earned accolades - and Grammy awards - as the songwriter of such personal works as “The Joke,” “The Story,” and “The Mother.” This spring, she’ll share an even more intimate, lengthy tale with the release of her first memoir, Broken Horses. ![]() ![]() ![]() A talented young man currently considered one of the most notable voices in Latin American literature. In every meeting I see that the energy exchange of my Venezuelan guest and my students is wonderful, and at the same time I feel that our meeting is for a good cause.I am excited to present to my students and friends of Conlinguas another beautiful story from my country the life story of Rodrigo Blanco Calderón. I had no experience in this moderating or interviewing thing, but I have to say that I enjoy it. I conduct the interview trying to get my students to follow the thread of my guest's story, they can ask questions and a few days later, in class, they will tell me what they understood from the interview. I wanted to share with my students a nice story from Venezuela and not just what they read in the newspaper so, at each event I invite a person with an interesting story to share with my students. What I came up with was that instead of students paying me for a class hour, I could organize a bigger “class” through Zoom and donate it to that person who needs our help. I didn't really know what, how and where, I just knew that it was possible to help a little. Conlinguas en Vivo was born at the beginning of the year when my sister Maria Elena told me about cases of people close to her who were going through an illness or needed an operation during this time of pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s the hero, Richard, who is her older brother Bjorn’s best friend. Kate’s got the perfect cast of characters to work with. The resulting novel is both hilarious and touching. She thinks they are “disgusting, with kisses that last three paragraphs and make you want to put your finger down your throat to induce projectile vomiting.” But she has her own little romantic story to tell, something wonderful that happened to her last Christmas, so she sits down with a copy of The Romance Writer’s Phrase Book to try and draft something that will be a little more like “real life.” High-school senior Kate Bjorkman doesn’t like romance novels. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman meets all of these criteria, and is a darn good read as well. ![]() And, finally, YA fiction almost always ends on a hopeful note not necessarily happily-ever-after, but definitely hopeful. It often deals with serious subjects or issues, but these issues are always resolved with the characters having learned something about both life and themselves. It’s quite often well written, but almost never pretentious. I am, of course, a children’s librarian, so that’s not surprising, but I don’t think that you have to be a young adult or a young adult librarian to enjoy YA literature. I’m extremely partial to young adult fiction. ![]() |