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Live Chat with Debut Author
Rebecca Scherm

Special Time 6:00-7:00 PM EDT!

Live Blog Live Chat with Rebecca Scherm, UNBECOMING
 Live Chat with Rebecca Scherm, UNBECOMING(10/22/2014) 
5:45
Nora - EarlyWord: 

We will begin our live online chat with Rebecca Scherm, author of the the psychological thriller, Unbecoming, in about 15 minutes
Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:45 Nora - EarlyWord
5:46
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Meanwhile, here’s the cover of Unbecoming, to published by Penguin/ Viking on January 17
Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:46 Nora - EarlyWord
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 Nora - EarlyWord
Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:46 
5:46
Nora - EarlyWord: 

And here is a special video that Rebecca made for First Flights members.

Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:46 Nora - EarlyWord
5:46
Nora - EarlyWordNora - EarlyWord
Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:46 
5:54
Nora - EarlyWord: 

I see chat participants gathering!

You can send your questions through at any time (even now). They'll go into a queue, and we'll submit as many of them as we can to Rebecca before the end of the chat.

Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:54 Nora - EarlyWord
5:55
Nora - EarlyWord: 
And, please don’t worry about typos – we’ll make them too!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 5:55 Nora - EarlyWord
6:00
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Rebecca has joined us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she lives, teaches (and writes). Say Hi, Rebecca.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:00 Nora - EarlyWord
6:00
Rebecca Scherm: 
Hello, everyone! Thanks for coming!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:00 Rebecca Scherm
6:01
Nora - EarlyWord: 
We've got some questions holding in the queue, but I'm going to start with a few of my own.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:01 Nora - EarlyWord
6:02
Nora - EarlyWord: 

UNBECOMING has so many twists and turns. We’ll try to avoid spoilers for anyone who may not have finished it yet, but I wanted to know how you were able to structure the book so the reader would be surprised, but not get lost. I imagine a room full of post it notes, or storyboards!

Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:02 Nora - EarlyWord
6:02
[Comment From PDReaderPDReader: ] 
Hi Rebecca
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:02 PDReader
6:02
Rebecca Scherm: 
Oh, it was a tortuous road. All I knew in the beginning was that I wanted to write about the making of an unlikely "femme fatale" and that she would have a part in a failed heist...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:02 Rebecca Scherm
6:03
Rebecca Scherm: 
I had many disorganized outlines, but before my second draft, I made an enormous one on a poster. The twists and new questions were marked and even color-coded by theme ("family," "sex," "ego," etc.). I needed that map, but I changed it constantly as I wrote. And I only used the map until the ¾ mark. After that, I just knew.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:03 Rebecca Scherm
6:03
Nora - EarlyWord: 
How much was completed before you showed it to an agent?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:03 Nora - EarlyWord
6:04
Rebecca Scherm: 
The version I sent out to agents was my fourth or fifth finished draft...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:04 Rebecca Scherm
6:04
Rebecca Scherm: 
My agent is a very shrewd reader, and I revised quite a bit with her guidance. Right away, I liked that she didn’t tell me what she thought I ought to do. She would ask me questions like “I wondered why…” and leave them hanging there until I figured out how I wanted it to be!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:04 Rebecca Scherm
6:05
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Did you show it to other people before your agent and editor?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:05 Nora - EarlyWord
6:05
Rebecca Scherm: 
Oh, yes. Each time I finished a draft, I would set the manuscript aside for two months and not look at it at all. This was so hard, but it helped me see it clearly every time. Each of those times, I'd have different friends lined up to read, some who knew what I was "going for" and some who were reading it cold...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:05 Rebecca Scherm
6:06
Rebecca Scherm: 
The only person who read it more than once was my dear friend Katie, to whom the book is dedicated. She was with me the whole way.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:06 Rebecca Scherm
6:07
Nora - EarlyWord: 

You also dedicate the book to your husband (or at least I think it's your husband). Did he also get to look at it?

Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:07 Nora - EarlyWord
6:08
Rebecca Scherm: 
Yes, and he's read it too. But really, he let me talk through it with him all the time. Every day, every scene-- he had heroic patience for listening to me work out these characters' problems. Eventually, you just talk abut them like they're people you know!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:08 Rebecca Scherm
6:09
[Comment From Mary C.Mary C.: ] 
How did you pick that title?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:09 Mary C.
6:11
Rebecca Scherm: 
My husband thought of it! My titles were all dreadful. One night we were talking about the title, and I said that it should be alluring but mysterious, and have a bit a warning bell to it-- it shouldn't sound like a sweet story! And Jon sat up in his chair and said "Unbecoming!" I thought it was perfect: it's both who Grace is and what she does.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:11 Rebecca Scherm
6:11
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
Hello from the Midwest, sorry I'm late, hope I didn't miss too much.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:11 Lucy
6:11
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Hey, Lucy -- thanks for joining!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:11 Nora - EarlyWord
6:11
Rebecca Scherm: 
Hello, Lucy!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:11 Rebecca Scherm
6:12
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
The title has lots of possible meanings.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:12 June
6:14
Nora - EarlyWord: 
I agree, June. I kept thinking about how the art pieces Grace works on were unbecoming. Was Grace also unbecoming?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:14 Nora - EarlyWord
6:14
Rebecca Scherm: 
Yes-- I thought of the expression "behavior unbecoming to a young lady," which was how we were disciplined as kids for being too loud, too raucous, too anything. And then, of course, Grace un-becomes and becomes and un-becomes several people.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:14 Rebecca Scherm
6:14
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
Don't want to jump ahead but will submit a question - did you have any input into the graphic for the cover?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:14 Lucy
6:15
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Of course, the crux of the book is the character of Grace. We got this advance question from one of the First Flights members about her:
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:15 Nora - EarlyWord
6:15
Rebecca Scherm: 
Yes, Lucy, and I was surprised that I had as much of a voice as I did! We went through many possible covers, but we wanted a mood that was hard to capture. I LOVE my cover!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:15 Rebecca Scherm
6:16
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Oops -- posted the last too quickly -- here's the advance question:
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:16 Nora - EarlyWord
6:16
Nora - EarlyWord: 

Hi Rebecca,

I was fascinated by the development of Grace's character, and how the physical and metaphorical journeys she went on added layer after layer to her complexity--all the way from TJ Maxx to the world of international antiques. What an amazing heroine--not easy to like, but absolutely riveting! Was it challenging to keep her on track? Did she go through many evolutions and changes during your writing process?

Janet Schneider

The Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY

Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:16 Nora - EarlyWord
6:16
[Comment From Janet SJanet S: ] 
Hi from Long Island, Rebecca. Sorry I am late.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:16 Janet S
6:16
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
Yes, the unfocused face and all those lined up dots ... Great cover!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:16 Lucy
6:17
Rebecca Scherm: 
Hi Janet, I'm just answering your question! In my first draft, Grace was not nearly so badly behaved, but friends who read that draft thought Grace felt far too guilty for what (at that point) she’d actually done. It became clear that if I really wanted to write about the making of a femme fatale, she was going to have to be much worse...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:17 Rebecca Scherm
6:17
Rebecca Scherm: 
Sometimes, it was very hard for me! The last scene with Mrs. Graham and Grace alone together—I won’t say more and spoil it—was the most difficult scene I’ve ever written. I was heartbroken for Grace then, even as I was furious with her. I was shaken up all day about it. So she became "worse" with each draft, but also more complex.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:17 Rebecca Scherm
6:18
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
I’ve heard someone say that there’s a trend towards more complex thrillers. Do you agree?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:18 Miranda
6:20
Rebecca Scherm: 
I hope so! To be honest, I had no idea I was writing a thriller-- that's something your publisher decides after the fact! I knew I was writing something psychologically suspenseful, though, and I love that kind of complexity in suspenseful fiction that I read. Tana French, Kate Atkinson-- they don't shy away from complication.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:20 Rebecca Scherm
6:21
[Comment From PubLibPubLib: ] 
What about the debate about likable characters? Are they for “small-minded readers” as one author asserted?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:21 PubLib
6:22
Rebecca Scherm: 
I wouldn't put it that way, but I do read different book for different feelings that I want. Sometimes you want a book to be your companion, and sometimes you want something to startle you, to shake you up...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:22 Rebecca Scherm
6:22
Rebecca Scherm: 
I knew that I was writing the second kind of book.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:22 Rebecca Scherm
6:22
[Comment From Femme FataleFemme Fatale: ] 
You said in your video that you like Dashiell Hammett, Ruth Rendell (hurrah!) and Rex Stout, as well as Hitchcock movies. What are your favorite contemporaty books?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:22 Femme Fatale
6:24
Rebecca Scherm: 
Ah! Most recently, I've loved Emily St. John Mandel's STATION ELEVEN, Roxane Gaye's UNTAMED STATE, and DAYS OF ABANDONMENT by Elena Ferrante. Knocked me off my feet.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:24 Rebecca Scherm
6:24
Rebecca Scherm: 
And Kate Atkinson's Life After Life! What a stunner.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:24 Rebecca Scherm
6:25
Nora - EarlyWord: 
You mentioned you were influenced by seeing the movie TO CATCH A THIEF with Grace Kelly. How does it strke you now?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:25 Nora - EarlyWord
6:25
Rebecca Scherm: 
I thought that I was heavily influenced by To Catch a Thief, but it turns out I was only partially right…
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:25 Rebecca Scherm
6:25
Rebecca Scherm: 
As a child, I was infatuated with Grace Kelly, particularly the three films she made with Alfred Hitchcock. I watched To Catch a Thief many times in my childhood. Midway through my final draft, I watched it for the first time in about twenty years. I was horrified!...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:25 Rebecca Scherm
6:26
Rebecca Scherm: 
I thought that Francie and Robie run away and become cat burglars at the end. That's not what happens at all. They settle down and live lawfully ever after-- Francie's mother even moves in. I had rewritten an ending I liked better, and then the novel I wrote was influenced by this not-real version of the movie.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:26 Rebecca Scherm
6:26
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Love that you named your character after her.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:26 Nora - EarlyWord
6:27
Rebecca Scherm: 
I knew she had that transfixing "golden" quality. That thing that puts people under a spell.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:27 Rebecca Scherm
6:27
Rebecca Scherm: 
Just like Grace Kelly.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:27 Rebecca Scherm
6:27
Nora - EarlyWord: 
And she is the crux of the book. I'm curious what our participants though of her.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:27 Nora - EarlyWord
6:27
[Comment From Janet SJanet S: ] 
Right. Is that the femme fatale/Grace Kelly angle?--you mentioned that in the video. Nice how you played with making someone beautiful outside and (somewhat) ugly inside.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:27 Janet S
6:28
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
I found myself always giving her the benefit of the doubt,
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:28 June
6:28
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
It felt like something was missing from her heart.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:28 Miranda
6:28
[Comment From LyndaLynda: ] 
I thought it was weird that she loved Mrs. Graham, but she basically screwed over her son.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:28 Lynda
6:28
Rebecca Scherm: 
Yes, Janet, for me that was the central motivation.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:28 Rebecca Scherm
6:29
Rebecca Scherm: 
And Miranda, I completely agree!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:29 Rebecca Scherm
6:29
[Comment From JulieJulie: ] 
She was maddeningly unknowable, but fascinating!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:29 Julie
6:30
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
I could see why she chose Alls -- his background was troubled, too.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:30 Miranda
6:30
Rebecca Scherm: 
I'm happy to talk about your question, Lynda, I just don't want to give too much away! Let me know if I should continue there!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:30 Rebecca Scherm
6:31
[Comment From CathyCathy: ] 
She wasn't really an :unlikeable" character -- somehow, she never made me hate her.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:31 Cathy
6:31
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
No spoilers, please, pretty please ...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:31 Lucy
6:32
Rebecca Scherm: 
ok!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:32 Rebecca Scherm
6:32
Rebecca Scherm: 
As a writer, there's a sense of readerly discomfort that I want. One of the things I find so incredible about Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels is that I am rooting for him and against him at the same time.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:32 Rebecca Scherm
6:32
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Lucy, you're killing me. I wanted to know what Rebecca would say. Guess that will have to be off line!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:32 Nora - EarlyWord
6:33
Rebecca Scherm: 
Well, I can say this...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:33 Rebecca Scherm
6:33
Nora - EarlyWord: 
I'm so glas you mentioned Ripley -- I often though of him while reading Unbecoming.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:33 Nora - EarlyWord
6:33
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
Can turn my eyes away until the chat scroll gets past the comments ... :-)
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:33 Lucy
6:33
Rebecca Scherm: 
I believe that Grace did what she did in some part-- unconsciously-- because she loved Mrs. Graham so much and was so angry about what had happened.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:33 Rebecca Scherm
6:34
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
Why did you have Grace and Riley get married?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:34 June
6:35
Rebecca Scherm: 
They had very different reasons for wanting to "seal" their decision to be together...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:35 Rebecca Scherm
6:36
Rebecca Scherm: 
But these two people are so determined, in a way, to be who they think they want/deserve to be, right now. They would make such a momentous decision very young.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:36 Rebecca Scherm
6:36
[Comment From Janet SJanet S: ] 
Was there a lot of research involved into the process of restoring antiques/jewelry? Is this something you knew about before?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:36 Janet S
6:37
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
Right! Sometimes I forgot how young they were.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:37 June
6:37
Rebecca Scherm: 
Janet, I just read and read and read some more. I read books about jewelry making, talked to gemologists...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:37 Rebecca Scherm
6:38
Rebecca Scherm: 
And on one memorably embarrassing occasion, I went to gem dealer in the diamond district to have a Fassi-like experience. It was a disaster! I was trying to sound educated and get educated at the same time-- a terrible combination.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:38 Rebecca Scherm
6:38
Nora - EarlyWord: 
I enjoyed your descriptions of the pieces Grace worked on, particulary that intricate centerpiece. Is it based on a real object?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:38 Nora - EarlyWord
6:38
[Comment From Janet SJanet S: ] 
Your descriptions of the process were visceral and seemed very authentic.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:38 Janet S
6:39
Rebecca Scherm: 
Well, all the pieces-- jewelry and antiques-- are real pieces. The centerpiece is a based on an incredible piece I saw in Prague, at the Decorative Arts Museum there...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:39 Rebecca Scherm
6:40
Rebecca Scherm: 
They wouldn't let me take pictures of it, so I could only make notes of the materials and the restoration process. Actually, the museum's placard on the centerpiece inspired Hanna's voice as a character. I was very taken with the tone-- very clipped and authoritative, but clearly full of love for the object.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:40 Rebecca Scherm
6:40
[Comment From Janet SJanet S: ] 
Also, now I want to do some serious Paris Flea Market-ing...:)
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:40 Janet S
6:40
Nora - EarlyWord: 

A character’s voice influenced by a museum placard? That’s a first. Your mind must be like a sponge, absorbing all kinds of things. Can you tell us about any other unusual details you picked up for the book?

Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:40 Nora - EarlyWord
6:41
Rebecca Scherm: 
Ha, yes, I soak up everything. Sometimes it’s overwhelming! I like to populate the fictional world with real life: real objects, real artwork, real news stories. I think my editor thought the pink diamond teardrop watch was a little farfetched-- then she googled it!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:41 Rebecca Scherm
6:42
Nora - EarlyWord: 
I am SO glad to know that is real. Will google it right after this chat!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:42 Nora - EarlyWord
6:42
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
You interweave today’s technology easily. Some of our debut authors have said it presents a problem to them because the speed of technology can make it difficult to set up tension. Did you have any trouble with that?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:42 June
6:43
Rebecca Scherm: 
June, I decided that I needed technology to work to create suspense instead of resolve it. Grace does this antiquated work, doesn't text anyone, certainly doesn't skype--for someone her age, it's like she lives in another time! So it was fitting that the internet would be this threat to her...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:43 Rebecca Scherm
6:44
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
Peeking back in now ... :-)
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:44 Lucy
6:44
Rebecca Scherm: 
...both as a way for her to be tracked or found, and as a way for her to seek information she shouldn't really have or doesn't want.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:44 Rebecca Scherm
6:44
[Comment From PubLibPubLib: ] 
Do you have more books in the works?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:44 PubLib
6:45
[Comment From N.C. LibrarianN.C. Librarian: ] 
Will you stick to thrillers? Are you finished with the femme fatale?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:45 N.C. Librarian
6:45
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
I just can't get enough of Grace -- will you write more about her?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:45 Miranda
6:46
Rebecca Scherm: 
Yes, I'm working on my second, novel, Beta. It's also a psychological suspense novel with a crime-- "You and your liars," my husband says-- but it's otherwise very different. It's about an American family on a private space station, testing it out for the rich...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:46 Rebecca Scherm
6:47
Rebecca Scherm: 
Some themes I can't quit just yet!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:47 Rebecca Scherm
6:48
Rebecca Scherm: 
Miranda, I do fantasize about writing about Grace again. But we'll have to see.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:48 Rebecca Scherm
6:48
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
There's something unknowable about her and I want more!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:48 Miranda
6:49
Rebecca Scherm: 
Good luck getting the truth out of her now, Miranda! I think she will become less and less knowable with time.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:49 Rebecca Scherm
6:50
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
Ha! So true.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:50 Miranda
6:50
Nora - EarlyWord: 
We touched on the debate about "unlikeable" characters earlier -- any more you want to add to that?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:50 Nora - EarlyWord
6:51
Rebecca Scherm: 
Well, to me, Grace is a fascinating criminal. I didn't intend for her to be liked-- I just wanted to know what made her tick! We’ve all known people who did awful things to us, felt bad about it, and then did them again. Those people are infuriating, so hard to understand, and that’s what motivated me as a writer...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:51 Rebecca Scherm
6:52
Rebecca Scherm: 
There are great novels about good people and great novels about sociopaths, but I think Grace is complex because she does have a conscience but often ignores it…
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:52 Rebecca Scherm
6:52
Rebecca Scherm: 
In the end, I feel both invested in her and wary of her. I wrote about someone who would be the villain in any other book. In mine, I would call her an anti-heroine. I don't want her to be my friend--or near any of my friends or family!-- but I am compelled by her-- and I hope you are too!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:52 Rebecca Scherm
6:53
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
I love how, in the beginning, she claims to not enjoy lying.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:53 June
6:53
[Comment From JuneJune: ] 
As Nora said, it's fun to go back and re-read the beginning.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:53 June
6:54
Rebecca Scherm: 
I read that pathological liars, as we call them, don't even know they're lying. It seemed important to establish that she knows right from wrong-- she just doesn't heed those signals very well.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:54 Rebecca Scherm
6:54
[Comment From JinnyJinny: ] 
My son is debating whether to go to school for creative writing. Do you think it can be taught?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:54 Jinny
6:55
Rebecca Scherm: 
I think that the impulse and the desire can be nurtured. At least, they were in me!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:55 Rebecca Scherm
6:55
[Comment From MirandaMiranda: ] 
What's your best piece of advice for an aspiring writer?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:55 Miranda
6:57
Rebecca Scherm: 
Read widely. Don't just read things you know you're going to like, things that are like the things you already love. Challenge yourself. Read different styles, genders, races, and nationalities, looking for stories that are unfamiliar to you. That's what literature is for, and that's how you find a voice that's only yours...
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:57 Rebecca Scherm
6:58
Rebecca Scherm: 
And write even when the writing is awful, when you fear you have nothing to say. You have to already be at work when the moment hits-- you can't wait for it to come to you.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:58 Rebecca Scherm
6:58
[Comment From JenJen: ] 
Just gotta say, your idea for the next book sounds SO different!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:58 Jen
6:58
[Comment From JenJen: ] 
How does it involve "your liars"?
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:58 Jen
6:59
Rebecca Scherm: 
Well, I don't want to spoil the next book, Jen! But one of the character's-- a biochemist-- has embellished his accomplishments, and that's going to be hard for him to undo.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 6:59 Rebecca Scherm
7:00
[Comment From JenJen: ] 
Sounds like fun!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:00 Jen
7:00
Rebecca Scherm: 
Characters, pardon me! Don't tell my freshman I did that-- they'll never let me hear the end of it!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:00 Rebecca Scherm
7:00
Nora - EarlyWord: 

Wow, everyone, that’s it for this chat. The hour flew by.Thanks, Rebecca for a fascinating discussion.

Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:00 Nora - EarlyWord
7:00
Rebecca Scherm: 
Yes it's a pleasure to work on something new!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:00 Rebecca Scherm
7:00
Rebecca Scherm: 
Thank you all! These were great questions.
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:00 Rebecca Scherm
7:01
[Comment From LucyLucy: ] 
Thank You Rebecca and Thanks to Nora for hosting!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:01 Lucy
7:01
Nora - EarlyWord: 

And thanks to the Penguin First Flights program members for joining us today. The chat will be posted in our archives,

Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:01 Nora - EarlyWord
7:01
[Comment From Janet SJanet S: ] 
Thank you Rebecca and Nora!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:01 Janet S
7:03
Nora - EarlyWord: 

Our next chat, on Dec 4, is with Brooke Davis, author of Lost & Found – read more about it here,

If you’re not part of the First Flights program, you can sign up here

Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:03 Nora - EarlyWord
7:03
Nora - EarlyWord: 
Goodbye, everyone! Keep on reading!
Wednesday October 22, 2014 7:03 Nora - EarlyWord
 
 

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