Happy Friday! Sonia Gensler's visit to Random Buzzers was such perfect timing as we're entering fall and such chilly weather - perfect for reading a spooky Victorian mystery involving seances and murder in an English boarding school.

Sonia's been chatting with you Buzzers all week about her new book The Dark Between and here's what we learned about her:

• Although Sonia does write about ghosts in her fiction, she's never participated in a seance
• She has however, messed around with an Ouija board and visited a medium
• Sonia loves her cover as it matches the photography theme of The Dark Between
• Sonia's convinced that her dad's house was haunted - creaking footsteps upstairs, closet doors opening, and the likes
• The movie The Others with Nicole Kidman inspired Sonia to start writing ghost stories
• Sonia also lists The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson as an inspiration
• Other books recommended by Sonia - The Turn of the Screw and Libba Bray's The Diviners
• When Sonia was researching her first novel, The Revenant, she came across a non-fiction book, The Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum, which was about the founders of the Society for Pyschical Research - a real society!
• When suffering writer's block, Sonia steps away from the computer and writes by hand for a while, or writes somewhere different for a change of setting
• Sonia is a staunch planner. She writes outlines, she fills out charts, and notecards on a corkboard, although she also deviates from the plan
• One of the first scary movies Sonia watched was The Sixth Sense
• For research, Sonia read a lot about early paranormal researchers, and Cambridge, England with a special focus on Trinity College and Newnham College
• Sonia's been to Cambridge four times!
• Sonia wishes she'd gone to a girl's boarding school because she used to be distracted a bit by boys
• Sonia does her writing in her office, surrounded by her books and her cat in her lap. Sometimes she works at her local bookstore, but the downside to that is that she has to change out of her PJs
• The time period of The Dark Between is 1901
• Sonia was influenced by Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Wilkie Collins

That's just a little bit of what we learned from Sonia! Sonia's still responding to your questions on her board so stop by and feel free to leave her a question or two! Curious about The Dark Between? Watch the book trailer for it here, or read the Kirkus Review!

Missed Sonia's visit? Don't fret! Next week, Robin Wasserman visits to chat about her new book The Waking Dark! Killing sprees in a small town where residents can't seem to make sense of anything or remember? We're so in! We're giving away ARCs, so visit Robin's board and leave a question to enter to win!