Accept the sadĠ9.34 Send text message to fellow writer friend. Avoid mixing it with soap).Ġ9.33 Send second text message to friend with office job. Drink more coffee (if desperate combine the two and bring the coffee cup into the shower. Fail to understand why he does not answer immediately.Ġ9.00 – 09.30 Have shower. Send first of many text messages to a friend with a regular office job. KB: This is an honest account of a typical writing day:Ġ8.00 – 09.00 Drink first cup of coffee in bed. My process is a mixture of inspiration and dread, hubris and self doubt, sporadic research, sudden ideas and editing. KB: I think it’s fair to say that with this my first book I did not have a process. KC: What is your process and how long did it take you to complete the book? But the plot isn’t: when I started writing the book I had never even been to Iowa, let alone gone there to visit a person I had never met and eventually starting a bookshop. KB: Everything I write is somehow autobiographical – I’m not a good enough writer to make up stories and emotions entirely. KC: Your debut book is a book for book lovers. I started thinking about what a bookshop can do for a town and the people in it. They were often strange, sometimes profoundly uninterested in books, and all so very… human. But when I started writing, I realized that what I remembered from my years in a bookshop was just as much about the people that passed through it. After all, I used to consider customers a rude interruption of my reading.

Katrina Bivald: When I first decided to include a bookshop in the story, I thought it would be mainly about the books.

How did your work in a book shop influence the story? Kirstine Call: I adore your book, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. (Go here, for my full goodreads review) I’m thrilled to interview Katarina for Writer’s Rumpus! When I read Katarina Bivald’s, The Reader’s of Broken Wheel Recommend, I had no expectations so I was completely delighted to find it compelling, thought provoking and entirely satisfying.

The readers of broken wheel