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Book clubs on boats. Book clubs in cars. Book clubs complete with game shows and nudity.

In the past nine years, I’ve attended hundreds of book clubs to talk about my books. It is by far one of my favorite ways to meet readers, because unlike a book store or library appearance, these folks have already read my book and are prepared to ask some interesting questions. I’ve also learned that…

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4 good ideas and 4 bad ideas about book clubs

PopSugar’s Elyssa Friedland offers 10 tips for a successful book club. I’ve been a member of a book club for more than a decade. Six people – three couples – meet and talk about books over dinner 6-8 times per year. I’ve also visited with well over 100 book clubs over the course of my…

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PowerPoint presentations, game shows, skinny dipping, and now The Oscars: Quirks of the many book clubs I have attended

Last week I attended the meeting of Sheltering Trees, a book club in Wallingford, Connecticut. The members of the group (more than a dozen ladies ranging in ages from their twenties to their seventies) were kind enough to read Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, so I joined them for their discussion. As expected, it was…

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