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This year, we’re overhauling The Word On The Street Book Club, making it more exciting than ever. By signing up for the Book Club, you enter for the chance to be among twelve lucky participants to gain entry to one of two private meet-and-greet discussions on site at The Word On The Street with either Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine, or Heather Tucker, author of The Clay Girl.

Participation is completely free, but each member of the Book Club will be chosen at random. Signing up does not guarantee you a spot. On our Book Club Registration Form, you can indicate which author session you’d prefer to attend, and if you win the lottery, in addition to the intimate book club session, you will also receive a complimentary copy of your author’s book.

If you aren’t one of the selected Book Club members, fret not! Our participating Book Club authors will be leading a short Twitter discussion on their book late-summer, and all are encouraged to join the conversation!

Deadline to enter: Monday, July 4

Details for the Book Club Twitter chats will be announced on the website and via Twitter in the coming weeks.

More about the books and authors:

Amy Stuart, Still Mine

Clare is on the run. She’s hiding in a remote mountain town, looking for Shayna, a local girl who disappeared. Did Shayna flee? Was she killed? Or is she still alive? Twisting and electrifying, this bestselling thriller will make you question what it means to lose (and find) yourself in the most unlikely places.

Amy Stuart won the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, and was a finalist for the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Award. She is a recent masters’ graduate from the University of British Columbia. Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and her three sons. Visit AmyStuart.ca.

Heather Tucker, The Clay Girl

Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes.

Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little girls. But Mary and her partner, Nia, offer an unexpected refuge to Ari and her steadfast companion, Jasper, an imaginary seahorse.

The Clay Girl is a beautiful tour de force about a child sculpted by kindness, cruelty, and the extraordinary power of imagination, and her families — the one she’s born in to and the one she creates.

Heather Tucker has won many prose and short-story writing competitions, and her stories have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. She lives in Ajax, Ontario.

Register for your chance to be part of The Word On The Street’s Book Club.