I love, love, love, this book so when Christie told me that Nancy Turner was going to be reading at the Provo Library I marked my calendar. Shauna, Christie & I went. Christie gives a great run down below.

We had a great time. After she spoke she signed our books and we took a picture with her. It's so funny before blogging I never would have done that but we all wanted to put it on the book club blog -- how very nerdy of us! Well, we look even nerdier in the picture below!!!

I laughed so hard when I saw this picture! We seriously look like we are standing 6 feet behind her! It looks like we snuck up and just took the picture when she wasn't looking -- well, I guess she is smiling, so that looks like she knew her picture is being taken. But it does look like she didn't know we were in it!

Book Club Trio Meets Famous Author

Shauna, Heidi, and Christie met Nancy Turner, author of These Is My Words, at the Provo City Library Saturday. She was funny and the artichoke dip was yummy!

Shauna's favorite quote from Turner's keynote address was something her fiction writing teacher had told her. "There is truth in fiction that is truer than facts."

It turns out that Turner didn't even take a college class until her own children were enrolled. She graduated with a triple major (music, art, and creative writing) without ever taking the required algebra or entrance exams!

Her first writing assignment in college ended up being the first chapter of These Is My Words. She never met her great grandma, Sarah Prine, but when her grandma read her book, she said it was as if Turner had known her.

She told the story of getting her book published. Editor: It's good, but too long. Publisher: It's good, but you need to explain things more. Second Editor: It good, but it's too long... After shortening it and lengthening it several times, she ended up printing pretty much her original novel.

When asked if she's sold the rights for a movie, she said she sent a copy of her book to Robert Redford, but he hadn't gotten back to her yet, so if we see him, we should ask him about it. She said Mel Gibson was going to do it, but then the next day he went into rehab.

Heidi will be posting the photo taken after Turner's book signing. Note Christie sporting her official Book Club sweater.