Jennifer Chiaverini

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The Elm Creek Quilts novels are a series of books written by Jennifer Chiaverini. They are published as hardcover originals by Simon & Schuster. The series currently includes sixteen titles: (1999) -Round Robin (2000) -The Cross-Country Quilters (2001) -The Runaway Quilt (2002) -The Quilter's Legacy (2003) -The Master Quilter (2004) -The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005) -The Christmas Quilt (2005) -Circle of Quilters (2006) -The Quilter's Homecoming (2007) -The New Year's Quilt (2007) -The Winding Ways Quilt (2008) -The Quilter's Kitchen (2008) -The Lost Quilter (2009) -A Quilter's Holiday (2009) -The Aloha Quilt (2010) In most of the books, the main character is a master quilter named Sylvia Bergstrom Compson. She and her young friend Sarah McClure open a quilters' retreat at Sylvia's family estate, Elm Creek Manor. Sarah and Sylvia run the "quilt camp" with the help of their friends, the Elm Creek Quilters. Other books are historical, featuring Sylvia's ancestors and earlier residents of the Elm Creek Valley. Are the Elm Creek Quilts novels mysteries? Are the Elm Creek Quilts novels romances? The Elm Creek Quilts novels are neither mysteries nor romances. If a categorization is necessary, feel free to consider them mainstream, contemporary, or historical fiction, in certain cases. Should I read the Elm Creek Quilts novels in the order you wrote them? If I read the Elm Creek Quilts novels out of order, will I still be able to understand them? If you want to read the books in the order I wrote them, read them in the order listed above. However, since I wasn't planning to write a series, I have written each book so that it stands alone. On my book tour, I often hear longtime fans tell new readers that the books should be read in the order I wrote them, but other readers have told me that they have read the books out of order and were able to follow everything just fine. Ultimately it's up to the individual reader. Please note, however, that later books inevitably give away events that occurred in previous books. If you would like to read the books in something approximating chronological order, please note the following: takes place in the interim between The Quilter's Apprentice and Round Robin. -The Sugar Camp Quilt is set in 1849-1850, so it takes place before the events chronicled in Gerda's memoir in The Runaway Quilt. -The Quilter's Homecoming is set mainly in 1925, but it branches off from a storyline introduced in The Christmas Quilt. -The New Year's Quilt immediately follows The Quilter's Legacy. -The Lost Quilter begins in 1849 immediately following the events chronicled in Gerda's memoir in The Runaway Quilt. The Lost Quilter, The Sugar Camp Quilt, and The Quilter's Homecoming work particularly well as stand-alone novels and can be enjoyed as your first Elm Creek Quilts novel or at any point in the series. I loved the first sixteen Elm Creek Quilts novels. What is the title of the next book in the series and when will it be available? The seventeenth Elm Creek Quilts novel, The Union Quilters, will be published in March 2011 by Dutton.

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