Dear Reader,
Today's guest is Brigid Kemmerer, the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen dark and alluring Young Adult novels like Defy the Night, A Curse So Dark and Lonely, and Letters to the Lost. A full time writer, Brigid lives in the Baltimore area with her family. When she's not writing or being a mommy, you can usually find her with her hands wrapped around a barbell.
Brigid's new book is Defend the Dawn. In the eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Defy The Night, Brigid Kemmerer continues her electrifying series with more royal intrigue, more sizzling romance, and shocking twists that will leave readers breathless.
Drop Brigid a note and welcome her to the book club, [email protected]
I've loved stories and writing since I was a child, but I don't think I would be an author without the influence of a librarian in my life. When I was a kid, authors always seemed like celebrities.
It was a career like a movie star--something almost unattainable. But when I was twelve years old, I loved my local children's librarian. My mother took us to the library almost every week, and the librarian always seemed to know every single YA novel on the shelves. (Back then, there weren't many, so maybe she did!) One day, the librarian happened to mention to my mother that she was a writer, and she was releasing her first book, a YA novel. At twelve, I had just begun writing my own stories, but being an author was still something I believed that real people never really got to do. I was stunned that someone I knew could be a real author! So when my librarian's book was released, of course my mother bought me a copy, and I fell in love with that book. It was "The Silver Kiss," by Annette Curtis Klause, and I loved it so much and read it so many times that I could quote lines on demand, even now, more than twenty years later. Reading that book and knowing the author had such a profound impact on me at that age, because it proved to me that even "ordinary" people could be authors, and it spurred me to keep
chasing my dreams of being a storyteller. I'm so glad I had the privilege of knowing Ms. Klause as a child, and it's such an honor to know my books are now on the same shelves she once used to lead me to when I was a child.
-- Brigid Kemmerer
Drop Brigid a note and welcome her to the book club, [email protected]
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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* This month's Penguin Classics is Metamorphosis by Ovid, a sensuous and witty poem in an accessible translation by David Raeburn. I have a copy of the book to share with a lucky reader, so start reading and enter for your chance to win.
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