Join us every week on Zoom for the Fresh Fiction Video Book Club from the comfort of your home. This online version of our in-person book club is the perfect way to stay connected (no matter the distance) each week with your reader friends. It's easy to sign up. Just create a Zoom.us account, download the app to your computer or device, and sit back with a snack while you chat with friends and a special guest author.

This week, we're talking to Erin Bartels about her latest inspirational romance, ALL THAT WE CARRIED. Join us for a lively conversation and stay for the reader afterparty!

Register by Wednesday, February 24, 2021. We start at 7:00 pm.

Evening Rundown (all times CT):

7:00 pm - informal chitchat and ice breaker with readers

7:30 pm - Interview with Erin Bartels (recorded live)

8:00 pm - Unrecorded Q&A with readers

8:30 pm - Reader after party

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About Erin Bartels

ERIN BARTELS is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things--a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, winner of the 2020 Star Award from the Women’s Fiction Writers Association in both the debut and general fiction categories, and a 2019 Christy Award finalist--The Words between Us--a 2020 Christy Award finalist--and All That We Carried (coming January 2021). Her short story “This Elegant Ruin” was a finalist in The Saturday Evening Post 2014 Great American Fiction Contest. Her poems have been published by The Lyric and The East Lansing Poetry Attack. A member of the Capital City Writers Association and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, she is former features editor of WFWA’s Write On! magazine and current director of the annual WFWA Writers Retreat in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Erin lives in the beautiful, water-defined state of Michigan where she is never more than a ninety-minute drive from one of the Great Lakes or six miles from an inland lake, river, or stream. She grew up in the Bay City area waiting for freighters and sailboats at drawbridges and watching the best 4th of July fireworks displays in the nation. She spent her college and young married years in Grand Rapids feeling decidedly not-Dutch. She currently lives with her husband and son in Lansing, nestled somewhere between angry protesters on the Capitol lawn and couch-burning frat boys at Michigan State University. And yet, she claims it is really quite peaceful.