Bonus: Interview with Annabel Monaghan
From the Front Porch
The Bookshelf Thomasville
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm light while I write it, and as I do so, I understand why I write. |
| 0:29.0 | To write is to recreate something as you'd like it to be. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. |
| 0:44.0 | And this week I'm bringing you a bonus episode featuring author Annabelle Monahan. |
| 0:49.0 | Annabelle's debut adult novel, Nora Goes Off Script, is one of my favorites of the year. |
| 0:54.0 | It's a recipe filled with all the bookish ingredients I love the most, a close-knit family, a strong-willed protagonist, and a memorable home. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi, Annabelle. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, what an introduction. |
| 1:05.0 | Thank you for having me here. |
| 1:06.0 | Wow. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm thrilled to get to talk with you. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't do a ton of author interviews anymore just because it's not really the kind of premise of From the Front porch. |
| 1:16.0 | We don't do a lot of interviews, but when your name came up, I was like, I have to talk to her because I loved your book so much, |
| 1:21.0 | and I really, as a reader, just wanted to get to talk to you. |
| 1:24.0 | So this is a selfish endeavor. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, I'm so happy. |
| 1:28.0 | Okay, so I want to talk about the book a little bit. |
| 1:31.0 | I read this kind of going in, knowing nothing about you as a writer, knowing really nothing about the book. |
| 1:38.0 | I got an ARC. |
| 1:39.0 | I was intrigued. |
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