What came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s an old question — and a cliche. And yet, sometimes cliches have a way of shedding light on our unique circumstances. This week, I have a new book out in the world. Sweep is the story of a girl and her monster, set in the world of […]
Tag Archives: Jonathan Auxier
April
05
The Power of “What If?” by Jonathan Auxier
posted by CBethM
This week my new book Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard comes out into the world. Sophie was an incredibly difficult book for me to write—the story is considerably bigger and more ambitious than anything I had ever written before. When I began drafting the story, I didn’t have a main character in […]
May
20
NIGHT GARDENER – Four Books That Showed Me the Way by Jonathan Auxier
posted by CBethM
Hello, Nerds! I’m thrilled to be back at the Nerdy Book Club with another guest post. The last time I was here, I wrote about the beauty of bookshelves. (Update: finished my new bookshelves … they’re awesome!) Today marks a very special day for me—after over nine years of writing and re-writing, my novel The Night Gardener finally […]
February
28
BOOKSHELVES by Jonathan Auxier
posted by Colby Sharp
Book collectors are a breed apart from normal readers. Robertson Davies describes them as combining “the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.” For better or worse, I was born into a family of book collectors. And when I look back on the places I have lived in over the last thirty […]
