[stylist] From our - [Writers-chat] Books & Beyond presents author Brian Katcher Wednesday March 20 2013

[Robert Leslie Newman]

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Books And Beyond Presents Author Brian Katcher, Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Newswire:

Logan Witherspoon has had trouble. His three year relationship with Brenda
has just ended.  He is lonely and alone much of the time with little or no
hope for a brighter future. His luck changes when a new student enters his
small Missouri high school.  If you have attended a small school with the
same classmates, you know what a breath of fresh air someone new can be.

Sage Hendricks is a wild child, and she has secrets that will change Brian's
life and outlook about love and friendship. If you had a friend who told you
something which derailed your hope for romance, what would you do? That is
the question at the heart of Brian Katcher's second novel. Through it, he
takes us in to a world and lifestyle he portrays with both sensitivity and
compassion.

How did Brian choose to write about this delicate subject? When writing
about sensitive issues, is research done differently? What has the reaction
of teens and their families been to the book? What can and should we do to
help teenagers deal with the choice to keep such a secret? How open and
forthcoming should they be   about the choices they  make in  how   they
live their lives? Should secrets be kept at all and under what
circumstances?

On our next show, we will meet and talk with a fabulous Missouri author who
has taken on a heartbreaking but very timely subject. I hope you will join
us as we get to know better a tremendous young author with much to say of
importance to all of us. Below is information about Brian and details of how
you can attend and participate in this upcoming show. His first novel,
Playing With Matches  as well as Almost Perfect is available on Bookshare.
The bard information for Almost Perfect is below.    

 

Brian Katcher was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1975. He attended the
University of Missouri, Columbia, before dropping out of society and bumming
around Mexico for three years. He's worked as a fry cook, a market
researcher, a welding machine operator, a telemarketer (only lasted one
day), and a furniture mover. He lived on an Israeli military base one
summer, and once smuggled food into Cuba. When he's not writing, he works as
a school librarian. He lives in central Missouri with his wife and daughter.
He still hasn't paid the parking ticket he got in West Virginia in 1997.

 

 

 

Almost perfect DB 74607

Katcher, Brian. Reading time: 8 hours, 21 minutes. 

Read by Gregory Maupin. 

 

Human Relations

Young Adult

 

Logan Witherspoon can't get over his girlfriend after she dumps him. But
then Sage Hendricks arrives at his small-town Missouri high school and turns
Logan's life upside down with her secret. Some strong language. For senior
high and older readers. Stonewall Book Award. 2009.

 

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