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…
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…
Book Club Adventures on Planes and Trains and Automobiles (sort of)
Since I published my first novel in 2009, I have attended well over 100 book club meetings both in person and over Skype with people from all over the world…
The moment for which every author longs, experienced by my wife.
My wife was checking out books at the library when a woman stepped up beside her and handed Unexpectedly, Milo to the adjacent librarian. “That’s my husband’s book,” Elysha said.…
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…
My book club once featured skinny dipping. This book club has a big time college football player for a member. I think they win.
I’m not a big college football fan. I don’t have an allegiance to any college football team. But wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell may have turned me into a Georgia Bulldogs…
The career of an author is not all angst and loneliness. Some of the time.
I am not a starry eyed author. I expect little from my publishing career. When I published my first novel, Something Missing, in 2009, I was not under the illusion…
“Book club date night” is probably not the most romantic way to spend an evening with your wife
Since publishing my first novel in 2009, I’ve visited with more than one hundred book clubs throughout Connecticut and beyond, oftentimes in person and many times via conference call, Skype…
