Writers Unplugged

Writers Unplugged in Conversation with Nancy Pearl

Nancy Pearl is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic, and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library.

Nancy has been awarded Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year, and has received the National Book Award Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.  She also has her own action figure.  Nancy Pearl discusses her career as a writer, her advice for finding just the right book to read, and the importance of reading.

Writers Unplugged in Conversation with Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi discusses the last book in her trilogy, The Perfumist of Paris.  The first in the series, The Henna Artist was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club and not only became a New York Times bestseller but is also in development at Netflix.

From Jaipur to Paris, this sweeping series has compelling characters and such a wonderful sense of place, you will feel like you are traveling across the world without leaving your chair.

Writers Unplugged in Conversation with Amy Impellizzeri

Amy Impellizzeri is described as a reformed Corporate Litigator turned award-winning writer. After thirteen years working in New York City, Ms. Impellizzeri left to write and advocate for working women and women entrepreneurs. Combining her work experience and writing talent she launched the legal drama Riversedge Law Club Series. Amy will be discussing Barr None, the second of this riveting series. Amy is a member of Tall Poppy Writers, Past President of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and is on faculty at Drexel University’s MFA Creative Writing program.

 

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Writers Unplugged In Conversation with Helaine Mario

Host, Jen Jumba, librarian at Cleveland Public Library, is joined in conversation with award-winning, Helaine Mario. You all are in for a treat to learn more about her main character, Maggie O’Shea’s journey, which is infused with classical music, art, and mystery.

Helaine Mario was born and raised in New York City. She studied at Boston University where she met her husband and raised two children and as she says, many cats! Her family has grown as she has 5 grandchildren, who she absolutely adores. They moved to Washington DC where she worked in the White House for President Clinton.

Writers Unplugged In Conversation with Wanda Morris

Join us for a conversation with Wanda Morris, whose hometown is Cleveland, Ohio. Wanda’s debut All Her Little Secrets, has been praised by Karin Slaughter as “brilliantly nuanced.” All Her Little Secrets has been optioned for a one-hour limited series on Showtime executive produced by and starring Emmy Award-winning actress Uzo Aduba. Her new book, Anywhere You Run, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Fiction Books for 2022 by The New York Times. It was also selected as one of the Best Books of 2022 by NPR, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.

Writers Unplugged In Conversation with Tracy Clark

Award-winning author Tracy Clark joins Writers Unplugged to discuss her latest book, Hide. Hide is a page-turning mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who’s on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads.