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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author M.K. Tufft discusses her middle grade series for kids. Marsha has three books currently out, Putney and the Magic eyePad, The Cardboard Boat Race and The Butterfly Detective. She writes stories with a STE(A)M theme – that is, science, technology, engineering, art and math. Marsha is a retired engineer with degrees in mechanical, aerospace and materials engineering. She enjoys developing experiments for kids to give them fun experiences with science, technology, engineering and math. She believes that there is no better way to learn than by doing, and her stories reflect this manner of learning. If you like Marsha’s stories, you should check out her website, putneydesigns.com, to find how-to instructions for the experiments, designs and solutions that she writes about in her books. In this episode, Marsha discusses her writing journey, how she translated her engineering background into her writing, and why she felt it was important to include art in her STEM learning.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, authors Kathy Chiu and Rebecca Pebble discuss their new novel, Endowed. The story involves four women who meet in an improv troupe and become friends. The characters are all from very different backgrounds, but they find the common bond of friendship as they help each other navigate life, loss and love. Both Kathy and Rebecca are improv troupe veterans. When they found out that each of them dreams of writing a novel and had separately come up with story ideas about friends in an improv troupe, they knew they had to write the book together. As they wrote, they used improv concepts such as “yes and,” and Endowed is written in a “cut to” format, much like a comedy improv performance. In this episode, Kathy and Rebecca discuss their writing journey, the special meaning behind the book’s title, and how writing a book about four friends strengthened the authors’ own friendship.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Esther Jantzen discusses her middle grade novel, WALK: Jamie Bacon’s Secret Mission on the Camino de Santiago. When Esther decided to write this story, she wanted to write it for kids, especially boys, who were hesitant readers. WALK is one of the first books for kids written about the Camino de Santiago, 500-mile walk beginning in France and terminating in the town of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. The Camino de Santiago has been a pilgrims’ route since the beginning of the 9th century. Esther, who retired from career as an educator, has walked the Camino three times, finding inspiration and gathering research first-hand for the story she would eventually write. Walking the Camino was a life-changing experience for Esther, and she hopes the adventures in her book, WALK, will inspire young readers as well. In this episode, Esther discusses her writing journey, what it’s really like to hike the Camino de Santiago, and the surprising differences she encountered between teaching books in her high school English classes and actually writing a book herself.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Shery Knowlton discusses her latest novel, Dead on the Delta, which is the fifth book in her Alexa Williams suspense series. Dead on the Delta follows Sherry’s hero, Alexa Williams, to Africa for an adventurous ride filled with wild animals, amazing locales, pressing environmental issues and, of course, murder. In this book, as with all of her stories, Sherry uses her fiction to address a number of timely social issues. Her stories have included topics ranging from illegal poaching, endangered species, terrorism, prejudice, fracking and the vulnerability of women, to name of few. In addition, she often pairs her stories with actual historical mysteries or events ripped from the news headlines. In this episode, Sherry discusses her writing journey, how her research for Dead on the Delta included time spent on safari in Africa studying conservation issues and the political landscape, and how a real-life murder mystery from the 1930’s that took place close to where she grew up eventually inspired her very first novel. Check out Sherry's own podcast, The Milford House Mysteries, and her six-part podcast special, An African Adventure on the BookSpeak Network.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, award-winning author Donald Quist discusses his linked story collection, For Other Ghosts. The stories take place in settings across the world with characters that are equally varied. Donald approached this story collection as a means of radical empathy, pushing himself to write beyond what he knows and to find connections to and amongst his characters and, hopefully, his readers as well. Donald is also the author of the acclaimed essay collection, Harbors, and he will follow that up with another essay collection to be released this fall. As if he wasn’t busy enough, Donald is hard at work on his PhD in English, he serves on the faculty of the MFA in Writing program at Alma College, and he is the creator of the online nonfiction series, Past Ten. In this episode, Donald discusses his writing journey, his views on the democratization of the publishing industry, and the biggest lesson he has learned from his MFA students: a concept he calls aboutness.
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