BTW Interviews

19 Aug
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A Q&A With Fredrik Backman, Author of September’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

“I couldn’t put it down and barreled to the end, but now I am sad it’s over,” said Lisa Driban of Hockessin BookShelf.

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17 Aug

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Aiden Thomas

“Cemetery Boys is a ghost story, a mystery, and a swoon-worthy romance all at once, and I have fallen in love with it!” said Mariana Calderon of Second Star to the Right Children’s Books.

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10 Aug

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Caroline Brooks DuBois

“The Places We Sleep is a beautiful and moving novel in verse about a girl navigating her way toward adolescence in the midst of a national tragedy,” said Chelsea Bauer of Union Avenue Books.

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05 Aug
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A Q&A With Ottessa Moshfegh, Author of #1 Indie Next List Pick Death in Her Hands

Chris Lee of Boswell Book Company called Moshfegh a “a modern-day Camus.”

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04 Aug

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Ash Van Otterloo

“Cattywampus has everything,” says Chelsea Bauer of Union Avenue Books. “Friendship, enemies, a very charming raccoon, magic, ancient family feuds, and zombies.”

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21 Jul
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A Q&A With Charlotte McConaghy, Author of August’s #1 Indie Next List Pick

"Migrations is a book so beautiful it will leave you breathless. Breathless with cold despair, and breathless with pulsating life and hope," said Lisa Swayze of Buffalo Street Books.

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13 Jul
Dan Unmasked by Chris Negron

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Chris Negron

“This stellar, heartwarming, reassuring, layered, childhood-affirming, and brave story will awaken even the most reluctant hero in all readers,” said Drew Durham of Books Inc.

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08 Jul
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Tobly McSmith on Summer Kids’ Indie Next List Top Pick “Stay Gold”

“Stay Gold is one of those rare novels that reads easily and has comic romantic appeal, but punches hard realism into your gut,” said Joy Preble of Brazos Bookstore.

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30 Jun

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Valérie Perrin

Lindsey Bartlett of the former Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore called Fresh Water for Flowers “a splendid work that will keep readers absorbed to the last page.”

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23 Jun
Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry

An Indies Introduce Q&A With Brian Castleberry

Brian Castleberry’s debut novel Nine Shiny Objects “is a puzzle worth working out — don’t give up!” said Indies Introduce panelist Kappy Kling of HearthFire Books and Treats.

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