Introduction

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.

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HOTEL ANGELINE: A NOVEL IN 36 VOICES

By Garth Stein, Jennie Shortridge, Teri Hein, William Dietrich, Kathleen Alcalá, Maria Dahvana Headley, Stacey Levine, Indu Sundaresan, Craig Welch, Matthew Amster-Burton, Ed Skoog, David Lasky, Greg Stump, Kevin O'Brien, Nancy Rawles, Suzanne Selfors, Carol Cassella, Karen Finneyfrock, Robert Dugoni, Jarret Middleton, Deb Caletti, Kevin Emerson Kit Bakke, Julia Quinn, Mary Guterson, Erik Larson, Frances McCue, Erica Bauermeister, Sean Beaudoin, Dave Boling, Peter Mountford, Stephanie Kallos, Jamie Ford, Clyde Ford, Elizabeth George, Susan Wiggs ... view entire excerpt...

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This is the dream selection for a book club—one collaborative novel written by 36 of the most creative contemporary writers from a wide range of genres. In addition to being a fun and thoughtful mystery, the book also provokes questions and conversations about creative collaboration, writing, publishing, and storytelling, and is sure to resonate with book-lovers.

“Here’s how I suggest you read Hotel Angeline: straight through, trying your best not to notice which author wrote which chapter, and only when you’ve finished that first read-through should you allow yourself to go back to the beginning and see who’s written what. When I read it a second time (still not looking at who wrote what), I put the list of contributors in front of me to see if I could figure out whom the writer of any particular chapter was. I found this to be both fun and instructive at the same time.

As a reader, I was fascinated and awed first by the whole idea of The Novel: Live! project; second, by the number of writers who agreed to participate; and finally, by the fact that Hotel Angeline actually came to a delicious fruition. Whether it’s mysteries, historical novels, nonfiction, realistic fiction, novels for teens, thrillers, romances, or poetry that you read, you’ll find contributors to Hotel Angeline who come from each of those writerly disciplines. There are writers here whose books have been widely successful and those who perhaps haven’t yet reached the popularity they deserve—names you’ll recognize and, probably, some you might not know. And yet, despite their various literary backgrounds, they united to create Hotel Angeline.”—Nancy Pearl

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