The Watchung Booksellers Podcast
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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast
Episode 48: Collaborative Writing
In this episode of the Watchung Bookselelrs Podcast, authors Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt discuss collaborating together on their first thriller, Please Don't Lie.
Christina Baker Kline is the Number 1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World. She is the recipient of the New England Society prize for fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. Kline has also written and edited five nonfiction books. Please Don’t Lie is her first thriller.
Anne Burt’s debut novel, The Dig, was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next pick, the Strand Book Store’s mystery selection for spring 2023, and the IndieBound.org Indie Next list’s lead “Thrills & Chills” reading group title for summer 2024. She is also a nonfiction writer and editor and a past winner of the Meridian literary magazine’s Editors’ Prize in fiction.
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Christina and Anne's event for Please Don't Lie
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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, NJ.
The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell.
Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica.
Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff.
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