Sarah Beth Durst

I would do Calissa from The Faraway Inn, which is coming out soon, because she bakes amazing cakes, and I feel like she would bring them to our hot chocolate party.

And I would also pick Dax from Sea of Charms, which also isn't out yet, because, you know, you fall in love with the books that you're writing next.

He is a world-class musician, and I feel like he would be playing music, I would be eating cake, there would be hot chocolate, it would be excellent.

Yes.

I agree.

Absolutely.

And that's part of why we do it is just to put ourselves in touch with something bigger than ourselves.

I just, I have always, always thought that books are magic.

We have this ability to fall in love with something that doesn't and can't possibly exist with people that aren't real yet.

They stick inside our heart and we get to carry them around forever and just

That joy of connection of these impossible beings that can be loved universally from people that we'll never meet, people in different times of different ages and stuff.

I just think that is such a joyous thing.

That connection on an imaginary plane.

Does that make sense?

It totally makes sense.

Yeah, it's this shared dream.

I feel like books exist in that liminal space between the writer and the reader.

Yeah.

and that that space can be accessed by everyone, I think is so beautiful.

Because I think what every single book, what it's saying at its core is you are not alone.