Featured Author Michael White Turns a Customer into a "Real Book Person"

Today's Shelf Awareness newsletter includes a quote from a bookstore owner about how a visit from GBF featured author Michael White ("A Brother's Blood" and "Beautiful Assassin") helped turn an Amazon.com girl into a "real book person."

Go, Michael!

GBF Author Q&A with... Michael White

Name: Michael White
Books: Beautiful Assassin, Soul Catcher, The Garden of Martyrs, A Brother's Blood, The Blind Side of the Heart, A Dream of Wolves, and Marked Men

White's Website

Where do you find inspiration?
By reading other novels and by long hikes in the woods.

What advice do you have for aspiring authors?
Read voraciously but closely, and write.

What are you reading right now?
Tinkers, Olive Kittredge

What's your favorite opening line from a book?
Call me Ismael.

What book has inspired or affected you in some way?
"The Sound and the Fury"

If you could sit down at dinner with three other authors, living or dead, which three authors would you choose?
Shakespeare, Keats, and Lincoln