New postergirl for readergirlz, Shelf Elf, is hosting me on the second stop of my North of Beautiful Book Blog tour. Be the first to answer Shelf Elf's posted question, and you'll win an autographed copy of North of Beautiful.
Here's a tidbit from our chat:
Shelf Elf: Your novel is a bit like Terra's artwork, since it is almost a "story-collage" of rich and surprising subjects: port-wine stains, geocaching, the art of coffee tasting, cartography and international adoption. I'm interested to understand how you began to make a story out of all of those topics.
Justina: North of Beautiful is a patchwork quilt of several epic journeys. (Read: several manuscripts that never came to fruition.) So much research I’ve done over the years for other potential stories finally made it into a book! For instance, I had been working on a non-fiction book eight years ago and interviewed the coffee buyer for Starbucks, Mary Williams.
To read the whole interview, please visit Shelf Elf's blog at www.shelfelf.wordpress.com.
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Archimedes Forgets with Sarah Rettger
www.sarahrettger.blogspot.com
Feb 5, Thursday
Bibliophile with Jennifer Rothschild
www.tushuguan.blogspot.com
Feb 6, Friday
Teen Book Review with Jocelyn Pearce
www.teenbookreview.wordpress.com
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