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Erin Bartels

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Born
in The United States
January 02, 1980

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Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Garrison Keillo ...more

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ERIN BARTELS is the award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things, The Words between Us, All That We Carried, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, and Everything Is Just Beginning.

Erin lives in the capital city of a state that is 40% water, 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.

Find her online at erinbartels.com, on Facebook @ErinBartelsAuthor, and on Instagram @erinbartelswrites.

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Will there ever be a sequel to We Hope for Better Things? That ending just feels like there is more to tell.
Erin Bartels There are no plans for a sequel to We Hope for Better Things. I like to leave a little bit of untidiness at the ends of my books, allowing the reader …moreThere are no plans for a sequel to We Hope for Better Things. I like to leave a little bit of untidiness at the ends of my books, allowing the reader to imagine what might come next. Keeps the characters alive in some small way. :)(less)
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I just finished The Words Between Us and loved it!! But, PLEASE tell me there is going to be a sequel!! I want to hear all of Sarah's story and of course a whole book could be written around Dawt Pi, too! Please, I need to know more!! Have you considered returning to these characters?
Erin Bartels Hi Patty, I'm so glad you enjoyed The Words between Us. :)

I do intend to write Sarah's story at some point (though I must tell you it wouldn't be pub…moreHi Patty, I'm so glad you enjoyed The Words between Us. :)

I do intend to write Sarah's story at some point (though I must tell you it wouldn't be published in the next couple of years or anything). I intentionally didn't answer some questions about her subplot because of that. In the meantime, she does show up briefly in a short story I wrote that takes place in River City which you can find on the Extras page of my website: https://erinbartels.com/home/extras/

I don't know if I will get to Dawt Pi's story, though I would love to tell it. In our current publishing climate, I don't know that writing her story would be wise. There is much criticism (some of it deserved) of white authors writing the stories of non-white characters, especially when they do not share a similar cultural background. If I wrote Dawt Pi's story, I would likely want to do it in tandem with a Chin author. While I have many Chin friends and have served their refugee community for a decade as an ESL teacher, ad hoc social worker, trainer for citizenship tests, and in other capacities, I have not actually experienced life as a persecuted minority or a refugee. In pursuit of supporting #OwnVoices, I would want to work with a coauthor.

Again, I am so glad you enjoyed the book!

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We Hope for Better Things
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It’s the first day of spring and in my corner of the world it is sunny and windy and warming. Our shadowed days turn toward light as surely and unstoppably as the daffodil and tulip bulbs send out shoots that stretch toward the surface. In the Midwest, it nearly always feels like spring is slow … Continue reading Some Thoughts on the Spring Equinox Read more of this blog post »
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Is it necessary to read your books in order - are any in sequel? Thanks much!
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Hi Kathlyn,
All of my books are standalone stories with no sequels and can be read in any order. Thanks for asking!
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“Change happens when the cost of keeping things the way they are is too high.”
― Erin Bartels, We Hope for Better Things
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“The end of a friendship—a true and soul-stirring friendship—is a terrible thing.”
― Erin Bartels, The Words between Us
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“Each time, when I hear what comes out of my mouth—so inadequate, so small compared to what I had experienced while reading—I feel like I’ve snatched the story from the author’s hands and trampled it underfoot.”
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