A New York Times Best Selling Author will visit Joplin on Thursday. KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro has more.
Shelby Van Pelt will visit the Joplin Public Library to discuss her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures.
This fiction novel is a Read with Jenna pick and was a nominee for two Goodreads Choice Awards, and is Joplin Public Library’s featured book for Joplin Reads Together 2023.
Joplin Reads Together is the Library’s first Community Read, a community-focused, month-long event centered upon a specific book.
Van Pelt spoke with KRPS contributor Jessica Fletcher-Fierro Tuesday and said the human characters were more difficult to write than the animals.
“Overall, the human characters were actually harder than the octopus character, if you can believe that. So when I came up with Marcelius, the Octopus, this voice of his just kind of popped into my head. This very grumpy, curmudgeonly voice. So naturally, it made me wonder if I was a grumpy old man in a prior life.”
Remarkably Bright Creatures is currently 13th on the New York Times Bestseller Fiction list.
Shelby Van Pelt will appear tomorrow night for a book signing at the Joplin Public Library at 5:30 and speak about her debut novel at 6 pm.
The event is free and open to the public. For 89 9 KRPS News, I’m Fred Fletcher-Fierro
