I’ve felt as though I took a journey with The Beautiful American before I set eyes on the lovely ARC which arrived from the author for this blog tour. I remember finding out about this novel at least a full year before I knew of this tour and throughout the past year, I know I have happily come across readers who have appreciated the breadth of work Mackin has left for us to enjoy finding. It’s hard to say exactly when I caught sight of this story – but as I lament to my readers both on my blog and in the twitterverse, even if a book cover is fetching to my eye, catching me at a junction where curiosity has a will to bloom and a heart has the will to take the journey with the writer – I must find a connection somewhere within the synopsis in order to pick up the book directly. Further still, when I formulate the questions I want to ask an author, sometimes I deviate a bit from the book in order to get a more personal accounting of the writer’s path. Other times, I feel my own writerly heart emerges through the questions I seek out of fellow writers, as it’s quite difficult to ‘hide’ the fact your a writer, even if your in the season of being a book blogger! I did attempt it initially back in 2013 before I launched my blog but after I started to work on this niche in the book blogosphere, I realised sharing a part of who I am as a writer would become a part of the background of who I am as a book blogger until the path emerges in front of me to walk into a new journey of my own. Therefore, you might notice some of my questions move from interview to interview, as I like to get different thoughts and perspectives on certain questions which are curious to me whilst the rest of the questions I do try to draw out more about the central heart of the novel I’m […]
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