Paula McLain, WHEN THE STARS GO DARK

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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"We're all shades of gray. There's always complexity in the human story. That's what I'm interested in.” Paula McLain shares how the inspiration for her latest novel, When the Stars Go Dark, struck during a dog walk. She reveals to Zibby the anxiety she felt about departing from her usual genre, and discusses the courage found in vulnerability.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:41.0	Hi, everyone. Starting at 1 p.m.
0:47.8	Eastern Time today on April 13th, I am really excited to announce that for the first time ever you can read along with me on the Fable social platform for book clubs and book lovers.
0:53.9	Go to fable.com and you'll find my brand new
0:58.6	reading club. All the books that I'm featuring in Zibby's Virtual Book Club, which many of you
1:03.9	are members of and the rest of you should be, will be featured on Fable. So you can get even more
1:09.8	features than you would get just from reading the
1:12.7	book from a store. You can go to the e-book and I have highlighted and made comments and it's like
1:19.2	an enhanced reading experience. Plus there'll be events and just so much more in the app. Plus,
1:23.8	I'll always have some reading picks for you there as well in my little fable folio.
1:29.1	So please go check it out.
1:31.1	Fable.com and look for my reading club.
1:34.6	I can't wait to read with you.
1:36.4	Paula McLean is the author of When the Stars Go Dark, a novel.
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