139. Author Encounters (Awkward & Awesome)

<p><strong>Today's Out of the Ordinary Book:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/24353/9780374526788"><em>Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996</em></a> by Seamus Heaney</p> <p><strong>Key Conversation Points:</strong></p> <ul> <li>When's the last time you've let yourself escape with a book for a long period of time? We have a plan for you as summer ends! Sources of inspiration are coming your way!</li> <li>We're talking all things awkward and awesome about meeting authors, from screaming in the airport to giving the wrong book for the author to autograph. </li> <li>Christie so graciously explains, "Writer finds reader and reader finds writer. No one is high and the other is low. We need one another." </li> <li>What's a book that's really impacted you? Please tag us on social media! </li> <li>Lisa-Jo observes, "The great thing about writing...your words can go out and really resonate with one person and then somehow that person is linked to your story...We are in this together." </li> <li>"I could do a weird thing right now." If you've ever thought this, Christie may have you beat. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Podcast links:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.blackbarnonline.com/">Click here</a> to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast.</p> <p>_______</p> <p>Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible.</p> <p><a href="http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary">Click here</a> to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month by visiting <a href= "http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary">www.betterhelp.com/ordinary</a></p> <p><a href="http://greenchef.com/ordinary100">Click here to go to GreenChef.com/ordinary100</a> and use code ordinary100 to get $100 off including free shipping!</p> <p><a href="http://hookedonphonics.com/ORDINARY">Click here to visit HookedOnPhonics.com/ORDINARY</a>, and receive your first month for ju