Author Event! Susan Walter and W. Bruce Cameron

Zibby's Bookshop is excited to host Susan Walter to celebrate the launch of LETTERS FROM STRANGERS! Susan will be joined by bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron!

About the book:

From the creator of the 2017 film All I Wish comes the heartbreaking story of two strangers searching for the truth about their families―and discovering a secret that will change their lives forever.

Jane’s father is far from perfect. But his sudden death brings crushing grief. As Jane grapples with her pain, life delivers another blow: a stack of letters pointing to a secret life. A life her father shared with another woman…who may have had his child.

Across the country, sixteen-year-old Adam is self-destructing. His adoptive parents never intended to show him the unsigned letters from his birth mother, but he is desperate for answers, even if they hurt.

Jane and Adam are on a collision course, but not for the reasons we might suspect. Because the letters do not tell the whole story. What is true is that Adam and Jane are both looking for a woman who does not want to be found.

A family saga spanning two decades, this emotional story explores how good things can grow from the ashes of old scars.

About the authors:

Susan Walter is a recovering screenwriter and film director. Her first two novels are set in the movie business, but then she discovered there are places that are even more dangerous, and is now murdering people on airplanes, ski hills, and in safehouses while on the run from organized crime. “Letters from Strangers” is her fifth published novel. Unlike the others, it explores a real life mystery from her own childhood. A six-year-long labor of love, writing it healed a broken part of herself, and gave her a better understanding why she felt the need to M**der all those people in her other books. When not writing (and also while writing) she enjoys watching Red Sox baseball and drinking too much coffee.

W. Bruce Cameron is the creator of the most beloved brand of family dog entertainment in the world.  The #1 New York Times, USA Today, and International bestselling novel A Dog’s Purpose has been translated into over 50 languages and continues to be a commercial success worldwide. The Amblin/Universal film of the book (for which he was a screenwriter along with his wife, Cathryn Michon) is the most successful international live-action dog movie of all time. A popular and hilarious guest in all media, Bruce has appeared on some of the most popular shows on television: Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox & Friends, 360 Anderson Cooper, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight, just to name a few.  He’s won numerous awards: the Colorado Children’s Book Award, The Peter Benchley Award, the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, and the Will Rogers Award, to name a few. He’s also the author of the book 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, which became the People’s Choice Award-Winning TV series that still runs in International Syndication. Sony Pictures released the feature film of A Dog’s Way Home, and Amblin Universal released A Dog’s Purpose 2: A Dog’s Journey, both adapted from his internationally bestselling books, and once again, Bruce and his wife wrote those scripts. His books for children include the eleven-volume series of Puppy Tales, the eight-volume Lily to the Rescue series, and the three-volume Dogs with a Purpose series.

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