Susan Coster asked Jo Baker:

What is on your nightstand right now? What is your favorite genre? Do you ever read Southern fiction?

Jo Baker I have just finished Beatlebone; I have SweetBitter to read next. I'm happy reading anything - and I think one can learn from anything. But I can't read horror; I just can't....
I've read quite a bit of American fiction, but I wouldn't know where to draw the boundaries of 'Southern' - who's Southern?

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In "Longbourn", you wrote "from the shoulders of a giant." What did you learn from that challenge, and how has it influenced your new book?

Libscigrl asked Jo Baker:

Hi Ms Baker! I'd love to know what your favorite book of all time is? I'd also love to know- what book you did not enjoy that everyone else seemed to love? Thank you!

Sara Palacin Jones asked Jo Baker:

Hi Jo! As a writer, how do you get through the rough patches of writing a book? I mean getting ideas and a simple plot is easy once you get inspired but how do you manage to turn that into an actual complex book? And how do you get through writer's block?

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What is on your nightstand right now? What is your favorite genre? Do you ever read Southern fiction?

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In "Longbourn", you wrote "from the shoulders of a giant." What did you learn from that challenge, and how has it influenced your new book?

Hi Ms Baker! I'd love to know what your favorite book of all time is? I'd also love to know- what book you did not enjoy that everyone else seemed to love? Thank you!

Hi Jo! As a writer, how do you get through the rough patches of writing a book? I mean getting ideas and a simple plot is easy once you get inspired but how do you manage to turn that into an actual complex book? And how do you get through writer's block?

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