About Conversations from a Page

Meeting by chance and paired by luck, Cindy and Krista began their years-long friendship separately selected to work together as co-chairs for a school leadership position. What started out as a fulfilling, easy-going, one-time partnership with each bringing unique yet complimentary strengths to the opportunity soon resulted in a successfully rewarding year together for themselves and the school they served. The friendship nurtured and grew to where the two actively (and happily!) sought each other for continued co-chair leadership positions for the next year. It became a fun friendship fact origin story—someone always had a new idea to jump into if the other was game! Working side-by-side on all these distinct opportunities, Cindy and Krista stumbled upon a common joy for all things reading and book-related as well as a fondness for sharing their time and space with good friends, like their West U Wonders Book Club. In a moment of part inspiration, part revelation and realizing that they could merge these shared interests including Cindy’s passion for bookstagramming, book reviewing and bookselling plus Krista’s enjoyment and satisfaction with welcoming people into her home for warm community and inclusive friendship, Conversations from a Page was born. This marriage of ideas brings together a community of readers with new and established authors alike sharing their current releases in a personal, welcoming, and casual atmosphere where relaxation and conversation take center stage before busy life takes over. 

Together, Cindy and Krista are excited to offer these Conversation from a Page opportunities throughout the year highlighting talent to bring into Houston.

Meet Cindy Burnett

Cindy Burnett is the host of the Thoughts from a Page Podcast where she interviews authors about their latest works. An avid reader and book reviewer, Cindy loves to talk about books everywhere she can. In addition to hosting her podcast, she actively promotes books she loves on social media including Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Cindy writes two book columns for The Buzz Magazines, Buzz Reads and Page Turners, and reviews books monthly for Bookreporter.com. She is also a co-creator of Conversations from a Page, a Houston author event series that brings authors and readers together in a relaxed and welcoming setting; the group recently added an online book club as well. As a SheReads.com contributor, she writes "best of" book articles in the genres of historical fiction, non-fiction and mysteries. In addition to reading, Cindy loves theatre, art, movies, National parks, travel, and hiking in Colorado during the summer.

Meet Krista Hensel

Krista currently can be found in Houston nostalgic about the past ubering of her high school senior twins between school and swim practice (now that there are licenses!) while sneaking in as much communication as possible with her college junior up in the northeast, and hanging out with her husband. When she isn’t being Mom, Krista looks forward to filling her time with meaningful volunteering, chairing her kids’ school Used Uniform committee, maintaining her physical therapy license through continuing ed, searching for motivation to swim, peloton and lift weights for fitness (so she can eat like she did in college), and contemplating a serious return to open water competitions with her husband which supplanted triathlons over the past decade. A former Div I collegiate swimmer for The University of Kansas, Krista enjoys hanging out, laughing, and traveling with her family, chasing the elusive black line on the bottom of the pool, throwing some serious gym weight around, blocking out the noise of the world with a good book before crashing at night, and especially spending as much precious time as possible with family and friends- both new and established- however and whenever she can. Krista will be the first to welcome you at the salons and the last to bid you farewell until the next one.

Special Thanks…

Website design by Sheryl Moore (contact)

Logo design by Elizabeth Gentry (elizabethcgentry@gmail.com)

Paper flower artwork by Brittany Lapiska (Etsy store: PipersPaperPetals; Instagram: @pipers_paper_petals)