Book Roast: a rollicking good time

Chris Elden and her merry band of “Roasters” (Q&A hosts for authors) have a quick, witty style that makes me hungry for their next feast of authors (puns intended). At the end of each month this blog hosts authors that are game to banter with fans of their books and fans of the site throughout a whole day.

The Book Roast blog is live for 5-days a month, but the archive is plenty fun to peruse any time.

Susan McBride, author of The Debs, was a guest last week, click this icon to read more of how she did her best to “help” her host with his quest to become a debutante,

Susan Gregg Gilmore, author of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen. is “marinating” right now to be a guest at the end of September. Here’s the upcoming schedule:

Marinating for September

Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
Bill Cameron
Danette Haworth
Donna Storey
Jason Pinter
Ray Wong
Sara Thacker
Susan Gilmore

This is straight off the Book Roast website to give you a “flavor” of the blog:
Serving up authors and books lightly grilled
and seasoned with humor.

Welcome to Book Roast!

We’re open for business the last part of every month to cook up authors from different genres. Stop by to hear about their books, jump in the oven and poke them with a meat thermometer to see if they’re done.

If you haven’t dined with us before, you’ll find contest ingredients and other information below. Ready? Then find a seat and let’s get started! If you want to talk to the authors, you can ask them anything you want. Only don’t talk with your mouth full.

Monday 6 a.m. through Saturday 7 a.m. (N.Y. time)
contests - prizes - author interaction

Our Contests Use Only the Finest Ingredients

We slice and serve one author a day for fun and prizes and a good, old fashioned roasting. First, we whet your appetite with a short excerpt from the author’s book, followed by three questions loosely related to the passage. Some questions are silly, others are straightforward and the rest are plain crunchy. For dessert, the author picks the winner who answers the most questions correctly – or the most creatively. We like spice, but some authors prefer things sweet, which makes Book Roast deliciously unpredictable.

The prize: a free copy of the author’s book (and an occasional surprise!)

Best of all, authors will pop into the blog throughout the day to answer questions, share a laugh and toss out some insider tidbits.

September 1, 2008 | Filed Under Blog  | comment

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