Book Club Spotlight: Building Relationships Around Books
Book clubs keep authors in business. Book clubs keep authors motivated. And without book clubs, many of your favorite authors may have quit a long time ago. So, let's hear it for the book clubs! This month, I want to highlight a club that started on Facebook, but has branched out with off line events for readers and one of the most active pages on the world wide web! Building Relationships Around Books or BRAB is the brain child of Sharon Blount, who joins me today to talk about the club and, of course, books! Sharon Blount, founder and president of BRAB, with author Keith Thomas Walker in Atlanta at the book club's reader's retreat. Why did you decide to start BRAB? I was reading so many books and I did not have anyone I could talk to about it. At one point time, I did have a physical book club but it did not work out with me. Being a new mom at the time, meeting up became difficult. Years later, I still wanted a place where i could talk about ...