Off The Shelf with Morgann Book
May 7, 2026 · 42 min · 27 segments
This week on Off The Shelf, Morgann sits down with romance author Kandi Steiner. She opens up about writing A Love Letter to Whiskey in just 9 weeks during one of the hardest times in her life, and…
So A Love Letter to Whiskey is about that person in your life who is a friend, but also more than a friend, but also never officially more than a friend, so what are you? It's kind of like the perfect storm of right person, wrong time for 11 years.
It is super high angst, uh, I think very real and raw and messy, which can be very polarizing for readers.
They either feel very seen and validated and like, "Wow, this brought me back to a time in my life when I felt this way," or they're like, "I cannot with these characters, I'm so frustrated." [laughs]
I went through a lot of dif- for, I read this recently, so I went through a lot of different things, but I think my biggest takeaway was you have beautiful writing.
I was in the midst of a divorce that I, you know, obviously nobody gets married planning to get divorced, so it was not a fun time in my life.
So A Love Letter to Whiskey is about that person in your life who is a friend, but also more than a friend, but also never officially more than a friend, so what are you? It's kind of like the perfect storm of right person, wrong time for 11 years.
It is super high angst, uh, I think very real and raw and messy, which can be very polarizing for readers.
They either feel very seen and validated and like, "Wow, this brought me back to a time in my life when I felt this way," or they're like, "I cannot with these characters, I'm so frustrated." [laughs]
I went through a lot of dif- for, I read this recently, so I went through a lot of different things, but I think my biggest takeaway was you have beautiful writing.
I was in the midst of a divorce that I, you know, obviously nobody gets married planning to get divorced, so it was not a fun time in my life.
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