Our chat guest Wednesday night is young adult author, Jim Lynch. Jim Lynch is the author of THE HIGHEST TIDE, a debut novel starring a 13-year-old
boy who turns into an awkward celebrity after he makes a series of? discoveries on the tidal flats near his home in Puget Sound. The Highest Tide is being marketed as a novel for adults and children throughout Europe and North America. http://www.thehighesttide.com/ Jim has won national journalism awards for his newspaper writing in the United States. The Highest Tide just received the 2006 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award and has been a regional bestseller since it was released in September. Jim writes, sails and explores tidal flats from his home in Olympia, Washington where he lives with his wife and 12-year-old
daughter. "People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which I was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine..." --excerpt from The Highest Tide ? Reviews for THE HIGHEST TIDE: ? KIRKUS REVIEWS: ???Lynch's first novel becomes a stunning light show, both literal, during phosphorescent plankton blooms, and metaphorical, in the poetic fireworks Lynch's prose sets off as he describes his clearly beloved Puget Sound. A celebratory song of the sea.??? ? BOOKLIST: ???Many readers, particularly those who enjoy discovering
new voices in fiction, will appreciate Lynch??™s assertive, microscopically observant writing and respond to the precocious hero, a boy so attuned to the land that his coming-of-age exerts a tidal pull on the very molecules of his environment.???? Please come out for an informative and entertaining evening and chat with writer Jim Lynch.? ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ? The Writer's Chatroom mission is to present fun and educational chats for writers and readers from many generes. http://writerschatroom.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Upcoming guests include Natalie Wolfe, Karen Mandeville, Jeff Shelby and Hope Clark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? ? We look forward to chatting with you! ? Glenn Walker
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