It's been a while since we've had a Books Spark Joy post but this week's guest is one worth waiting for! Historical fiction author Emily Madden's love of books started at a young age. Nothing has changed – she rarely leaves a bookstore without a book and I can testify to that - Emily and I were both at the pop-up bookstore in Millthorpe last week and she definitely had a stack of books in hand!

I think most writers are readers, it goes with the territory. I used to save reading for when I wasn’t writing, and I always read in a different genre.

Stories are among the most powerful things we own – those we tell ourselves and those we tell others, truths big and small we strive to express just for the sake of telling them.