QUINN CONNOR: YOUR BELOVED REMAINS
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Join us as we welcome QUINN CONNOR in conversation with MANDY MARTIN on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of their new novel YOUR BELOVED REMAINS.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
As fascination turns to obsession, two women drag each other into an academic horror of forgery, murder, and rage, destined to be devoured by readers of Plain Bad Heroines and If We Were Villains.
Archivist Celia Kiel has spent her life on the remote campus of Basin College in the Southern Ozarks. Once a jewel of women's higher education in the South, the school now molders on its mountaintop, its endowment thinly supported by the bequeathed estate of 19th century writer, Beatrice Donahue. Celia guards the legacy of this venerated, yet scandalous author, who has been the object of her illicit desire since childhood.
When the administration announces the college's imminent closure, Celia discovers a manuscript pickled in formaldehyde, and with it, a chance to save the only home she's ever known. She will forge Beatrice's infamous lost work, a spellbinding horror written toward her life's tumultuous end. To do it, she is forced to recruit her professional rival, literature postdoc Joan Harriot, who has both an astounding talent for mimicry and a dark secret of her own. As their world closes in and the ghosts of the Victorian past encroach, their creative collaboration spirals into an obsession more twisted than even their beloved Beatrice could have penned.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Quinn Connor is one pen in two hands: Robyn Barrow and Alex Cronin. Both writers from a young age, Robyn and Alex met at Rhodes College in Memphis and together developed their unique co-writing voice. They are thankful that no matter what, there’s always another person in the world who cares about their characters as much as they do. An Arkansan and a Texan, when they aren’t writing, they’re arguing about the differences between queso and cheese dip. Robyn is an art historian of the medieval Nordic world, and a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Though often abroad, clambering around in medieval church roofs, Robyn loves writing about her home state of Arkansas. Alex is a Texan living under a Brooklyn zip code, working in PR to fund her writing habit. In her free time, she can be found exploring the city, topping off her tea, and amassing a collection of winter coats. Whether Robyn is wandering the Far North, or Alex is chasing down homemade pasta in Prospect Heights, they write all the time. It’s their preferred form of conversation.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER:
Mandy Martin hails from Nashville, TN but, really, she's from Dickson Co. but, honestly, isn't she from Memphis by now? Where ever she hangs her hat, she's always been a bookworm full of questions. Her "But why?"s of childhood never really went away and that curiosity lead her to get a BFA in Musical Theater (always finding the "Why" in the role), then to a career as a wedding planner (explaining the Whys behind traditions, price tags, and place settings).
She now gets to ask incredible authors for their "Why"s. "Why did you make all the chapters so short?" "Why are all of your books set in the same fictional town?" "Why would you put mayonnaise on a perfectly good banana sandwich?" She's honored to dive deeper with authors about their work and their "Why" and is always searching for her next 5 star read!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
As fascination turns to obsession, two women drag each other into an academic horror of forgery, murder, and rage, destined to be devoured by readers of Plain Bad Heroines and If We Were Villains.
Archivist Celia Kiel has spent her life on the remote campus of Basin College in the Southern Ozarks. Once a jewel of women's higher education in the South, the school now molders on its mountaintop, its endowment thinly supported by the bequeathed estate of 19th century writer, Beatrice Donahue. Celia guards the legacy of this venerated, yet scandalous author, who has been the object of her illicit desire since childhood.
When the administration announces the college's imminent closure, Celia discovers a manuscript pickled in formaldehyde, and with it, a chance to save the only home she's ever known. She will forge Beatrice's infamous lost work, a spellbinding horror written toward her life's tumultuous end. To do it, she is forced to recruit her professional rival, literature postdoc Joan Harriot, who has both an astounding talent for mimicry and a dark secret of her own. As their world closes in and the ghosts of the Victorian past encroach, their creative collaboration spirals into an obsession more twisted than even their beloved Beatrice could have penned.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Quinn Connor is one pen in two hands: Robyn Barrow and Alex Cronin. Both writers from a young age, Robyn and Alex met at Rhodes College in Memphis and together developed their unique co-writing voice. They are thankful that no matter what, there’s always another person in the world who cares about their characters as much as they do. An Arkansan and a Texan, when they aren’t writing, they’re arguing about the differences between queso and cheese dip. Robyn is an art historian of the medieval Nordic world, and a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Though often abroad, clambering around in medieval church roofs, Robyn loves writing about her home state of Arkansas. Alex is a Texan living under a Brooklyn zip code, working in PR to fund her writing habit. In her free time, she can be found exploring the city, topping off her tea, and amassing a collection of winter coats. Whether Robyn is wandering the Far North, or Alex is chasing down homemade pasta in Prospect Heights, they write all the time. It’s their preferred form of conversation.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER:
Mandy Martin hails from Nashville, TN but, really, she's from Dickson Co. but, honestly, isn't she from Memphis by now? Where ever she hangs her hat, she's always been a bookworm full of questions. Her "But why?"s of childhood never really went away and that curiosity lead her to get a BFA in Musical Theater (always finding the "Why" in the role), then to a career as a wedding planner (explaining the Whys behind traditions, price tags, and place settings).
She now gets to ask incredible authors for their "Why"s. "Why did you make all the chapters so short?" "Why are all of your books set in the same fictional town?" "Why would you put mayonnaise on a perfectly good banana sandwich?" She's honored to dive deeper with authors about their work and their "Why" and is always searching for her next 5 star read!
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