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I Killed Zoe Spanos</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7210822.Kit_Frick">Kit Frick</a><br />
Publisher: McElderry Books<br />
Release Date: June 30th 2020<br />
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery<br />
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<b>“The YA thriller of the summer.” —Bustle</b></div>
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<b>For fans of Sadie and Serial, this gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses to murder and the other becomes determined to uncover the real truth no matter the cost.</b></div>
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What happened to Zoe won’t stay buried…</div>
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When Anna Cicconi arrives to the small Hamptons village of Herron Mills for a summer nanny gig, she has high hopes for a fresh start. What she finds instead is a community on edge after the disappearance of Zoe Spanos, a local girl who has been missing since New Year’s Eve. Anna bears an eerie resemblance to Zoe, and her mere presence in town stirs up still-raw feelings about the unsolved case. As Anna delves deeper into the mystery, stepping further and further into Zoe’s life, she becomes increasingly convinced that she and Zoe are connected—and that she knows what happened to her.</div>
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Two months later, Zoe’s body is found in a nearby lake, and Anna is charged with manslaughter. But Anna’s confession is riddled with holes, and Martina Green, teen host of the Missing Zoe podcast, isn’t satisfied. Did Anna really kill Zoe? And if not, can Martina’s podcast uncover the truth?</div>
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Inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Kit Frick weaves a thrilling story of psychological suspense that twists and turns until the final page.<br />
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Can you briefly describe I KILLED ZOE SPANOS and its characters?</h3>
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Think YA Rebecca set in the Hamptons. When Anna Cicconi confesses to playing a role in the death of local teen Zoe Spanos, she’s charged with manslaughter and concealing a body. But Anna’s confession is riddled with holes, and Martina Green, teen host of the Missing Zoe podcast, isn’t satisfied. Did Anna really kill Zoe? And if not, can Martina’s podcast uncover the truth?</div>
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In its most boiled-down form, Martina is our detective and Anna is our unreliable narrator / possible villain. But spoiler alert—it’s not that simple!</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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I have a special place in my heart for the story’s minor characters like Kaylee, Anna’s best friend from home; Paisley, her eight-year-old babysitting charge; and Aster, Zoe’s younger sister and Martina’s best friend. Sometimes the secondary characters are the most fun to write.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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When the idea for I Killed Zoe Spanos was bouncing around in my head, I’d recently re-read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the fourth (fifth?) time and couldn’t help wondering: What if Rebecca de Winter had gone missing today, in the age of Serial and The Vanished and Bear Brook and all the other excellent true crime podcasts that have sprung up over the last five years? Then I landed on the Hamptons setting—the American equivalent of the tony English seaside town in Rebecca—and I Killed Zoe Spanos evolved from there.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-TM">Sia’s “Chandelier.”</a> Anna comes to Herron Mills in part to escape her “party girl” past and make a fresh start—but of course nothing goes as planned. I think she’d relate quite a bit to the girl in Sia’s high-flying anthem.</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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The only piece of “dream casting” I have worked out is the part of Caden Talbot, the boy next door at Windermere. I always see Jordan Fisher in my head when I picture Caden!</div>
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I Killed Zoe Spanos comes complete with its own mocktail: the Lemon Spritz! Think lemonade and seltzer; add a splash of rum to make it adult. :) Best consumed poolside or at the beach, of course.</div>
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For more YA thrillers featuring podcasts, check out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250105714/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250105714&linkId=5791a42793ff8bfacff11153d06ee03e">Sadie by Courtney Summers</a> on the slim chance you haven’t already, as well as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089TXRVD9/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B089TXRVD9&linkId=fe6a8533dd7ca538444a5a70a1a14ca0">I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan</a> (coming in October 2020) and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1405297751/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1405297751&linkId=511d823b9e6fb5094da81d718c8d9251">Holly Jackson’s Good Girl, Bad Blood</a> (which I’m hoping will be coming to the US soon!). On the adult side, I highly recommend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067001639X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=067001639X&linkId=25352802f138ab64d068efad549b1cb6">Elizabeth Little’s Pretty as a Picture</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316528501/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316528501&linkId=e9dd92144b7b383e4ef0170a901f7559">Denise Mina’s Conviction</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501157663/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1501157663&linkId=b1bf62a77b2694057287d9cf81795d44">Kathleen Barber’s Are You Sleeping</a> (re-released in paperback and developed for TV as Truth Be Told) all of which feature (fictional) true crime podcasts woven into the narrative.</div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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Endings! Many writers despair of the “murky middle,” but it’s endings that give me the most trouble. Not because I don’t know where I’m writing toward, because I generally do, but because getting all the necessary information to the reader in a mystery novel in a way that is both organic and surprising is a real challenge. It takes many drafts to get it just right.</div>
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My next book is still a secret! (Ssh.) I hope to be able to spill some details soon.<br />
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The Crow Rider <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/246902-the-storm-crow">(The Storm Crow #2)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17673530.Kalyn_Josephson">Kalyn Josephson</a><br />
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire<br />
Release Date: July 7th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy</div>
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Princess Thia, her allies, and her crow, Res, are planning a rebellion to defeat Queen Razel and Illucia once and for all. Thia must convince the neighboring kingdoms to come to her aid, and Res’s show of strength is the only thing that can help her.</div>
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But so many obstacles stand in her way. Res excels at his training, until he loses control of his magic, harming Thia in the process. She is also pursued by Prince Ericen, heir to the Illucian throne and the one person she can’t trust but can’t seem to stay away from.</div>
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As the rebel group prepares for war, Res’s magic grows more unstable. Thia has to decide if she can rely on herself and their bond enough to lead the rebellion and become the crow rider she was meant to be.<br />
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Can you briefly describe the series, its characters and what’s happening in THE CROW RIDER?</h3>
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THE CROW RIDER picks up where THE STORM CROW left off, with Princess Thia and her friends desperately trying to reach Trendell for the alliance meeting between the kingdoms. To convince them to ally with her against Illucia, Thia and her storm crow, Res, must make a show of strength, but Res is new an untrained, and struggles to control his powers.</div>
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To make it a bit fun, can you describe the series or THE CROW RIDER with emojis?</h3>
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🛳️⛈️⚔️🦅👑 – one day there will be a crow emoji!</div>
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How did this new story occur to you? Was this more difficult to write than the first book?</h3>
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It was easier in some ways, and more difficult in others. I already knew the characters and the world, so there was a lot less to come up with from scratch, but I had also established a lot of rules and timelines in the first book that I had to abide by in the second book, and since I hadn’t completely outlined book 2 before book 1 came out, that was a bit of a struggle! I did always know how the series would end though, so I was always writing toward that.</div>
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If you could choose one song to describe this new book, which one would it be?</h3>
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The She-Ra theme song haha. Only mostly kidding. But I struggle with these questions! I don’t make book playlists or listen to music when I write so I don’t often associate songs with my books.</div>
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What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date?</h3>
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A hot cup of tea and a comfy couch by the fire while it rains outside.</div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE CROW RIDER?</h3>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1534424628/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1534424628&linkId=715b66357c3a5f9f165baf36a6a5c7d2">CROWN OF FEATHERS by Nicki Pau Preto</a>! It’s also a bird riding book, but phoenixes instead of crows.</div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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Not rushing. I prefer editing over drafting, so I’m constantly trying to rush through my drafts so I can get to edits. Part of that comes from this feeling that publishing is a race (which it’s not!) but you feel like you have to be constantly producing. I’ve been doing a lot better at slowing down though!</div>
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What’s next for you?</h3>
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I can’t talk specifically about any new projects, but I’m working on a couple potential new books right now.<br />
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Hunted by the Sky <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/260859-the-wrath-of-ambar">(The Wrath of Ambar #1)</a></h3>
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux<br />
Release Date: June 23rd 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy</div>
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Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul's mark is what caused her parents' murder at the hand of King Lohar's ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. So when a group of rebel women called the Sisters of the Golden Lotus rescue her, take her in, and train her in warrior magic, Gul wants only one thing: revenge.</div>
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Cavas lives in the tenements, and he's just about ready to sign his life over to the king's army. His father is terminally ill, and Cavas will do anything to save him. But sparks fly when he meets a mysterious girl--Gul--in the capital's bazaar, and as the chemistry between them undeniably grows, he becomes entangled in a mission of vengeance--and discovers a magic he never expected to find.</div>
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Dangerous circumstances have brought Gul and Cavas together at the king's domain in Ambar Fort . . . a world with secrets deadlier than their own. Exploring identity, class struggles, and high-stakes romance, Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India.<br />
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Can you briefly describe HUNTED BY THE SKY and its characters? </h3>
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Set in a world inspired by medieval India, HUNTED BY THE SKY follows the story of a girl named Gul, who has vowed vengeance against a tyrant king for ordering the murder of her parents. Trained in warrior magic by a group of rebel women, Gul infiltrates the king’s palace with the help of a reluctant stable boy named Cavas, who has some dark secrets of his own. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why? </h3>
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Honestly, I love both Gul and Cavas, but there’s another character who has really become a favourite—a character who I can’t mention right now for fear of spoiling the book. </div>
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I was struggling with a SF dystopian novel that I’d drafted, which was going nowhere. I loved the characters I’d created, but didn’t like the plot and the setting was weak. A friend of mine suggested trying out fantasy instead of science fiction. That’s when the gears began turning in my head. I decided to change the setting to one inspired by India—more specifically medieval India, a historical period I was obsessed with as a teen. I was also inspired by a group of women from north India called the Gulabi Gang (the Rose Gang), which works for women’s welfare. The Sisterhood of the Golden Lotus was born and I had my main character’s new name—Gul. </div>
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“Bad Bad Girls” from the movie, Chak De India </div>
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Ishan Khattar for Cavas. I would love Tara Gupta, the model on my cover, to play Gul. </div>
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Have a cup of lemongrass chai at the Lake Palace Udaipur in Rajasthan and take the book with you. Ambar will come alive. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish HUNTED BY THE SKY? </h3>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316449717/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316449717&linkId=90052a13c8437687b8ef43219bea8c44">Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C23KXPG/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07C23KXPG&linkId=9e8945857cec59b9a76d2699c7502da9">The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062459198/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062459198&linkId=ba1b6ff06e28691ccb602aa48f574ef8">The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan</a> </div>
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Every book has its own challenges. For this book, I had to learn more about creating a magical system and a whole world with its own history and myths. It was quite challenging initially, but also a lot of fun! </div>
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The sequel to HUNTED BY THE SKY!<br />
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Rebel Spy</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4637369.Veronica_Rossi">Veronica Rossi</a><br />
Publisher: Delacorte Press<br />
Release Date: June 23rd 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction</div>
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<b>A reimagining of the story behind Agent 355--a New York society girl and spy for George Washington during the Revolutionary War--perfect for fans of Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and the novels of Julie Berry.</b></div>
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Rebellious Frannie Tasker knows little about the war between England and its thirteen colonies in 1776, until a shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity. The body of a young woman floating in the sea gives Frannie the chance to escape her brutal stepfather--and she takes it.</div>
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Assuming the identity of the drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant. But after witnessing the darker side of the war, she realizes that her position gives her power. Soon she finds herself eavesdropping on British officers, risking everything to pass information on to George Washington's Culper spy ring as agent 355. Frannie believes in the fight for American liberty--but what will it cost her? Inspired by the true "355" and rich in historical detail and intrigue, this is the story of an unlikely New York society girl turned an even unlikelier spy.<br />
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Can you briefly describe REBEL SPY and its characters? </h3>
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REBEL SPY is a YA historical fiction that occurs during the American Revolution. It’s based on a real female spy, who is known only as “355,” which was the code assigned to her. I wrote the story of who this spy might have been, using the existing knowledge we have of the spy ring she operated in.</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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Definitely the protagonist, Frannie. She’s got wit, bravery, and spunk—but she’s still sensitive and even a little naïve at the outset. She gets herself into trouble but she never gives up. I love her perseverance and passion.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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A few years ago I wanted to expand my knowledge of women in history. I stumbled across 355 in my searching and couldn’t get her out of my mind. And I never know where I’ll find inspiration—it can be the most unexpected thing sometimes, like a song, a glance from a passing stranger, the view out my window.</div>
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I really want to give you one song, but I can’t! What I can say is that my playlist for this book was full of songs by <a href="https://youtu.be/PJY_6mrbyDY">Basia Bulat</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/j1wgaFJ0750">Agnes Obel</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/AlhkwHSZMyg">Zoë Keating</a>.</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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Hmm. I would want unknowns, to be honest. But I am a huge fan of Timothée Chalamet’s and Millie Bobby Brown’s work.</div>
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Definitely the beach and probably a glass of something sparkling! </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish REBEL SPY?</h3>
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There are so many wonderful works of historical fiction in YA. Stacey Lee is an incredible talent and lovely person and I have yet to not love one of her books. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0147512972/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0147512972&linkId=83e64fa800d098bd4913d8ec0ce5fae9">Julie Berry’s THE LOVELY WAR</a> swept me away. The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062391763/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062391763&linkId=ad35bc187bfedda5091f7371454bf9ba">MY LADY JANE</a> books are so much fun and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062652818/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062652818&linkId=552231e6f4900e4b614bd0782396730a">MY CALAMITY JANE</a> just released. I loved <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062382810/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062382810&linkId=a7f3e26eef01150a9a1e2a78157c923c">Mackenzi Lee’s GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE</a> (like everyone, I know!) and I was blown away by the voice, creativity, and power of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062570617/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062570617&linkId=9032a03381f2f1f65f79e903c741e18d">Justina Ireland’s DREAD NATION</a>. I could really go on and on—those are the ones that are coming to me now. As for fiction, I’m currently finishing up <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XH155T5/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07XH155T5&linkId=12ba9c95b419872a4d06e7709f6605a1">Maggie Tokuda Hall’s THE MERMAID, THE WITCH, AND THE SEA</a>—and it’s terrific.</div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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The beginning. No, the middle. No, the end :)</div>
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Sisters of Sword and Song</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14926516.Rebecca_Ross">Rebecca Ross</a><br />
Publisher: HarperTeen<br />
Release Date: June 23rd 2020<br />
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy</div>
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<b>From the author of The Queen’s Rising comes a thrilling YA stand-alone fantasy about the unbreakable bond between sisters. Perfect for fans of Ember in the Ashes, Sky in the Deep, and Court of Fives.</b></div>
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After eight long years, Evadne will finally be reunited with her older sister, Halcyon, who has been proudly serving in the queen’s army. But when Halcyon appears earlier than expected, Eva knows something has gone terribly wrong. Halcyon is on the run, hunted by her commander and charged with murder.</div>
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Though Halcyon’s life is spared during her trial, the punishment is heavy. And when Eva volunteers to serve part of Halcyon’s sentence, she’s determined to find out exactly what happened. But as Eva begins her sentence, she quickly learns that there are fates much worse than death.</div>
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Can you briefly describe SISTERS OF SWORD AND SONG and its characters?</h3>
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Sisters of Sword & Song is about two sisters—Evadne, a scribe, and Halcyon, an esteemed warrior in the Bronze Legion. When Halcyon unexpectedly returns home one night, now a criminal and on the run from her Commander, Evadne knows her sister is in trouble. And Evadne, who has always felt underestimated and overlooked, decides to take half of Halcyon’s punishment. But as both sisters serve the sentence, secrets begin to come to light, and Evadne learns that her sister was involved in a dangerous mission. And what Halcyon began, Evadne must now complete, even as she faces a sinister magic that threatens to unravel her world.</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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Ah, this is so hard to answer! I truly love them all, but I think I have quite a soft spot for Evadne. :) There are moments in her personal journey that resonate the most with me.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I had two different story ideas. One idea was about a mage and a scribe. The other was an idea for a sister story, where one sister commits a crime and the other rises to help carry her punishment. Both story ideas were intriguing to me, but every time I attempted to write them separately, they fizzled out. It wasn’t until I brought the two together that I found a spark and the story caught fire.</div>
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I love the song “Rejoice and Lament” by Josh Garrels. I love how this song unfolds like poetry, and there’s an illusion to Icarus. These lyrics, in particular, are some of my favorite: “I said Father the feathers of my wax wings / Fall away by the rising of the sun / And I have descended when I was undone / And I will ascend when your Spirit comes.”</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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I honestly would love to see up and coming actors portray my characters. Every now and then, I might come across an actor or actress who I feel like would be amazing in bringing my characters to life, but most of the time I don’t cast them. </div>
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What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date?</h3>
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A glass of wine on the Greek coast!</div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish SISTERS OF SWORD AND SONG?</h3>
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I would love to recommend my other two books, which are part of a duology and are available to read now: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07192GJLT/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07192GJLT&linkId=b116870b85b83f240cfd657ff39fa93c">The Queen’s Rising</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062471392/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062471392&linkId=af9354faf1aebae9a2e0a8145ab28daa">The Queen’s Resistance</a>. Readers can expect another adventure, strong ties of sisterhood, vast worldbuilding, a hint of magic and a slow burning romance in these books.</div>
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I also would love to recommend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616962771/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1616962771&linkId=b50fa82deb1b5c1f2bce3105fd5c173d">The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip</a>, which reads like a myth unfolding and is one of my favorite novels. </div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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Reaching the end! I write by the seat of my pants, which means I write linearly and discover so much of the plot as I go. It can feel a bit like driving at night and only being able to see what the headlights reveal. And it can be difficult to keep going, especially when another shiny story idea emerges, or the magic of the current idea begins to dim. But whenever I reach that final scene and type the last words…I always feel such an intense moment of relief and accomplishment, even if I know the draft is a mess and will require intense revisions.</div>
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What’s next for you?</h3>
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I have more projects in the works! They haven’t been announced yet (although I believe it will be imminent), so I’ll be sharing more details about these projects very soon on my social media. Thank you so much for having me for an interview!<br />
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Royal Decoy (Fate of Eyrinthia, #1)</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4983261.Heather_Frost">Heather Frost</a><br />
Release Date: June 18th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance</div>
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A SERVANT blackmailed into becoming a princess’s decoy.</div>
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A BODYGUARD determined to keep her alive.</div>
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A PRINCE forced to execute his father’s brutal laws.</div>
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A PRISONER used to keep him compliant.</div>
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A WORLD on the brink of war.</div>
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In one horrible night, Clare goes from kitchen maid to royal decoy. She has three months to become the princess's perfect double so she can ensure her betrothal to an enemy prince. Desperate to survive, Clare throws herself into self-defense training, taught by her distractingly attractive bodyguard. The danger increases when a ruthless assassin begins stalking her, intent on ending the tenuous peace.</div>
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Across the northern mountains, Prince Grayson is his father’s ultimate weapon. He carries out the king’s harsh orders because the one person he cares about is his father’s prisoner. Grayson's silent obedience is tested when his father plans to exploit the marriage alliance between two of their greatest enemies. If Grayson submits, the blood of thousands will spill. If he resists, the girl who means everything to him will die.</div>
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The fate of Eyrinthia hangs in the balance. Some want peace. Some want war. All will be thrown into chaos.<br />
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Can you briefly describe ROYAL DECOY and its characters?</h3>
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Thanks for having me, I’m excited to be here! Royal Decoy is set in the fictional, medieval world of Eyrinthia. There are two main storylines. The first follows Clare, a servant who is blackmailed into becoming a princess’s decoy. Her new life consists of being a target for assassins, dealing with castle politics, and learning all sorts of new skills (including self-defence, taught by the enigmatic and attractive Captain Bennick Markam). Clare must become the princess’s perfect double to help ensure the princess’s betrothal to an enemy prince.</div>
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The second storyline takes place in another kingdom and follows Grayson, who is the youngest prince of Ryden. He was raised in an epically twisted family and his role is to be an enforcer of his father’s brutal laws. His father, King Henri, controls Grayson because he holds prisoner the only person Grayson cares about: his childhood friend/girl-he-loves-but-can-never-admit-he-does, Mia. But there are some orders Grayson struggles to follow, even though his father is clearly testing him—preparing him for a role in the war King Henri plans to start.</div>
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Clare and Grayson may be in different kingdoms, but it’s pretty clear that one day they are going to meet and influence each other’s lives—for good or bad is up for debate :)</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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Hmm…That’s a hard question. I feel like it changes :) But right now I’d say Grayson is my favourite, because his story is just so compelling. He grew up in a nightmare, and yet he hasn’t been corrupted by his evil, sadistic family. He has a moral compass, and even though that can be a painful thing for him sometimes, it’s there. His resiliency amazes me. Also, the chemistry between Grayson and Mia is a tangible thing, and I’m a romantic, so I love that! </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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Several years ago I was working on a totally different project, and pieces for Royal Decoy started falling into place. I would jot the ideas down, and then try and concentrate on my other project, but, Royal Decoy just took over. Clare’s storyline fell into place first; I loved the idea of having a regular person be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and then suddenly be thrust into royal politics. I liked the idea of having my main character be the decoy, rather than the princess. I wanted to play with how she would adapt, how she would struggle, and how she would eventually find herself while pretending to be someone else. As her storyline took shape, other pieces came into play—including a terrifying assassin you won’t meet until book 2, and of course Grayson. Originally, I thought Royal Decoy would be a single POV story and that it would fill exactly one book. I even told my writers group that, and we still laugh about it, because Royal Decoy became so much more than that first vision. It’s a whole series with multiple POVs, and I think it’s a much more powerful story because of it.</div>
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If you could choose one song to describe your book, which one would it be?</h3>
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I think I’ll cheat and give you two—one for each main storyline :). For Clare, I’d pick “Shake It Out”, by Florence and the Machine. For Grayson, I’d probably say “Breath”, by Breaking Benjamin.</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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I think I’d prefer to have unknown actors. I know that’s not a very fun answer :)</div>
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What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date?</h3>
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Strawberry lemonade on a beach feels like the perfect combo. If you’re like me and you don’t live near a beach, then a warm corner of the backyard also sounds nice!</div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish ROYAL DECOY?</h3>
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If you want to try another book from me, you can check out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005WLHB0Y/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B005WLHB0Y&linkId=7b83160616728344aced440412c52783">“Seers”</a>, book 1 of my YA Paranormal trilogy; it’s got Demons, Guardians (not angels) and a girl who can see them, which of course puts her in the middle of an immortal war. Fun times :)</div>
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For me, the editing stage is probably the most difficult. It can be hard to get rid of parts you love, even if it’s better for the story, and it can be a painful process to polish scenes until they gleam. But it is also one of the most rewarding stages! </div>
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I’m currently working on book 2 of Royal Decoy, and I’m also working on another book that will kick off an entirely new series, which I’ll be excited to announce more details about soon!<br />
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When she’s not writing, Heather likes to read, travel, and hold Lord of the Rings movie marathons. She owns two typewriters, sings in the car, and dreams of living in a castle someday. She currently lives in a beautiful valley surrounded by towering mountains in the wilds of Utah.<br />
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The Kinder Poison <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/251136-the-kinder-poison">(The Kinder Poison #1)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18637214.Natalie_Mae">Natalie Mae</a><br />
Publisher: Razorbill<br />
Release Date: June 16th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy</div>
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<b>Perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Holly Black, this enthralling fantasy adventure follows a teenage girl chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between three heirs who will do anything for the crown.</b></div>
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Zahru has long dreamed of leaving the kingdom of Orkena and having the kinds of adventures she’s only ever heard about in stories. But as a lowly Whisperer, her power to commune with animals means that her place is serving in the royal stables until the day her magic runs dry.</div>
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All that changes when the ailing ruler invokes the Crossing: a death-defying race across the desert, in which the first of his heirs to finish—and take the life of a human sacrifice at the journey’s end—will ascend to the throne and be granted unparalleled abilities.</div>
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With all of the kingdom abuzz, Zahru leaps at the chance to change her fate if just for a night by sneaking into the palace for a taste of the revelry. But the minor indiscretion turns into a deadly mistake when she gets caught up in a feud between the heirs and is forced to become the Crossing’s human sacrifice. Zahru is left with only one hope for survival: somehow figuring out how to overcome the most dangerous people in the world.<br />
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Can you briefly describe THE KINDER POISON and its characters?</h3>
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THE KINDER POISON is an enthralling fantasy adventure that follows Zahru, a sixteen-year-old girl who is chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between three heirs who will do anything for the crown. Zahru is a dreamer who often lets her mouth get ahead of her brain, and the heirs she has to contend with are Prince Kasta, a secretive boy with the power over death; Prince Jet, a charismatic swordsman who can bend and manipulate soundwaves, and Princess Sakira, a troublemaking party girl who can create almost any type of magic with a paintbrush. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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This is a hard choice! I put pieces of real people I know and love into each of my characters, so all of them are special to me. But I’d have to say my favorite to write is probably the villain. I’ve always had a soft spot for darker characters, and I especially love those who aren’t all the way gone, because there’s this delicious ongoing battle within them between the extremes they’re willing to go to and the fear that maybe they’ve gone too far. I think that makes them unpredictable and so very human, which always makes for a compelling story.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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Initially, the inspiration for the book came from an article I read about archaeologists finding the bones of children who'd been sacrificed on an ancient mountain. The children didn't appear to have struggled or suffered, which made me wonder what it would be like to live in a time when human sacrifice was revered - and of course, what it might be like to be chosen for such a thing. But once I finished the first draft, I realized the book wasn't about that at all. It was about a girl who'd been told all her life that no matter how hard she worked or what good she tried to do, her worth was measured by something completely out of her control: the power she was (or in this case, wasn't) born with. It's the grounds for how she ends up as the sacrifice, and as soon as I drew that parallel to my own life, that was it. It became a story of defiance, of pressing back on a world that often favors wealth and physical strength over all.</div>
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If you could choose one song to describe your book, which one would it be?</h3>
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My husband would say it’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWq3f01e2U">Metallica’s “Creeping Death,”</a> which to be clear was chosen 100% by the lyrics sung during the bridge, which are literally “DIE, BY MY HAND!” while someone chants “DIE” in the background. He also wanted me to walk out to that part at my launch party … it’s a whole thing, I don’t really talk about it. That’s a little extreme for me so I’m going to have to say “Wonderland” by Taylor Swift because it covers both the wild adventure part, and one of the more rollercoaster relationships she develops over the course of the series.</div>
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Okay, so here’s where I admit that it’s been approximately a thousand years since I was up to date on actors, so bear with me! But I think I’d have to choose India Eisley for Zahru, Odeya Rush for Sakira, Michael B. Jordan for Jet, and the only person I can find who fits my “look” for Kasta is teenage Jason Momoa, so that’s what I’m going with!</div>
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Take this book to Moab, Utah, grab yourself a box of chocolate truffles and a glass of sparkling water, and you’ll practically be living inside the book. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE KINDER POISON?</h3>
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Readers who like THE KINDER POISON should definitely check out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250027438/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250027438&linkId=3f0b1cf0c46e4b887866325b525a29af">SHADOW AND BONE</a> if you somehow haven’t already, and also <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0147511682/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0147511682&linkId=53b66f0d61c59ea064718750c367950c">THE YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492656623/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1492656623&linkId=1a75c910a2959eded5b116e487540f36">FURYBORN by Claire Legrand</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0147513855/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0147513855&linkId=37293a657c8f4dfdc51cadb84c634fdb">THE WRATH AND THE DAWN by Renée Ahdieh</a>. </div>
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Omg … all of it? Haha. But I would have to say the toughest is finding the right path the characters need to take from start to end, both internally and plot-wise. There are SO MANY different twists and turns any story can take, and sometimes those endless possibilities can be paralyzing. I’m very lucky to have extremely smart (and patient) editors and critique partners who can help me out when I get stuck.</div>
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Right now I'm working on edits for THE KINDER POISON’s sequel, which will release in 2021, but I have a couple other books in progress I hope to be able to share more about soon ...<br />
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Half Life</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17343003.Lillian_Clark">Lillian Clark</a><br />
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers<br />
Release Date: June 9th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction</div>
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An overachiever enrolls in an experimental clone study to prove that two (of her own) heads are better than one in this fast-paced, near-future adventure that's Black Mirror meets Becky Albertalli.</div>
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There aren't enough hours in the day for Lucille--perfectionist, overachiever--to do everything she has to do, and there certainly aren't enough hours to hang out with friends, fall in love, get in trouble--all the teenage things she knows she should want to be doing instead of preparing for a flawless future. So when she sees an ad for Life2: Do more. Be more, she's intrigued.</div>
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The company is looking for beta testers to enroll in an experimental clone program, and in the aftermath of a series of disappointments, Lucille is feeling reckless enough to jump in. At first, it's perfect: her clone, Lucy, is exactly what she needed to make her life manageable and have time for a social life. But it doesn't take long for Lucy to become more Lucy and less Lucille, and Lucille is forced to stop looking at Lucy as a reflection and start seeing her as a window--a glimpse at someone else living her own life, but better. Lucy does what she really wants to, not what she thinks she should want to, and Lucille is left wondering how much she was even a part of the perfect life she'd constructed for herself. Lucille wanted Lucy to help her relationships with everyone else, but how can she do that without first rectifying her relationship with herself?</div>
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Can you briefly describe HALF LIFE and its characters?</h3>
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Hi Patri! Thank you so much for having me!</div>
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Half Life, pitched as Black Mirror meets Becky Albertalli, follows Lucille Harper, an ambitious young woman who struggles with a constant worry that she isn’t measuring up. As her life falls apart—broken friendship, unrequited crush, divorcing parents—she’s approached by a mysterious company offering her the “opportunity of a lifetime.” She signs up to be a beta tester for an adult human cloning program and things get…interesting, to say the least.</div>
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Beyond Lucille, we have Lucy (the clone), Cass (the childhood best friend), Bode (the crush), Marco (the new crush), Dr. Thompson (the lead scientist at Life Squared), and Isobel (a mystery), alongside a small host of others.</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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This is tough! I love all of my characters for different reasons, but I think I’m the teensiest bit more partial to Lucy. And Isobel. They were really interesting and challenging to write. I also have a very special place in my heart for Lucille.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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Originally, I pitched the idea for Half Life as a YA re-telling of the 1990s movie Multiplicity, but the longer I worked on it, I realized the comedy-plus-tightening-spiral-of-hijinks just wasn’t working. So, instead, I took that core of a person spread too thin getting a clone to help manage her busy life and layered in a mess of bigger themes like the subjectivity of truth and the (unachievable and often directly opposed) expectations society places on young women.</div>
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If you could choose one song to describe your book, which one would it be?</h3>
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I actually have the perfect answer for this!! I love thinking about a single song that sums up how I want my books to make people feel, and so I already have one picked out: “I See You” by MISSIO. (If anyone is curious, the song for my debut Immoral Code is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdhuFuNL28">“Trees” by twentyone pilots</a>!)</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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Lucille and Lucy are so solidly the focus of the whole book that I’ll just cast them, and I think Kaitlyn Dever could pull it off magnificently.</div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish HALF LIFE?</h3>
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Not so humbly (haha) my debut <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525580468/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0525580468&linkId=7c31842e21b13bffca1f625d872b3200">Immoral Code</a>! If you like Half Life, I feel pretty confident that you’ll also like that. As for books not by me, I’ll forever recommend books by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&keywords=Shaun%20David%20Hutchinson&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=f29fa71a3d2d14df6c580f6e555384df">Shaun David Hutchinson</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&keywords=Caleb%20Roehrig&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=03d22ff3b8f3620f5440591bea4af5c3">Caleb Roehrig</a>. Caleb has a new title coming out in July, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250155843/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250155843&linkId=1bb16f3e119813573b28ee1a21a20eeb">The Fell of Dark</a>, and it’s magnificent. VAMPIRES! Need I say more?</div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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ALL OF IT. (Kidding, well, sort of.) This book was a struggle. Most authors seem to feel the same about second books. It’s difficult to write something under contract for the first time, usually on tight deadlines, while also promoting your debut. But more specifically, it took me three full drafts to get to the heart of Lucille’s character. I kept chasing false threads. But once I found the core of her, I fell in love with her story and this book.</div>
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Right now I’m working on a few projects, but none with any solid plans for release. I’ve been revamping my first, formerly-shelved manuscript about a young woman who’s stolen by a megalomaniac in another world, and a second manuscript that follows a high school couple deciding whether or not to break up before college…then they get sucked into a revolving door of alternate universes (I clearly adore portal fantasies, haha). I hope to have more news soon!<br />
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The Glamourist <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/270736-the-vine-witch-series">(The Vine Witch Series #2)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18699641.Luanne_G_Smith">Luanne G. Smith</a><br />
Publisher: 47North<br />
Release Date: June 9th 2020</div>
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Genre: Fantasy, Fiction</div>
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<b>A spellbinding novel of bloodlines, self-discovery, and redemption by the author of the Washington Post bestseller The Vine Witch.</b></div>
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Abandoned as a child in turn-of-the-century Paris, Yvette Lenoir has longed to uncover the secrets of her magical heritage and tap her suppressed powers. But what brave and resourceful Yvette has done to survive the streets has made her a fugitive. With a price on her head, she clings to a memento from her past—what she believes to be a grimoire inherited from the mother she never knew. To unlock the secrets of her past, Yvette trusts in one woman to help solve the arcane riddles among its charmed pages.</div>
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Elena Boureanu is the vine witch of Château Renard, noted for its renowned wines. Even as she struggles with her own bloodline—and its poisonous threat to her future—Elena can’t ignore a friend on the run. Joined by a cunning thief, the proprietor of an enchanted-curio shop, and a bewitching black cat, Elena and Yvette are determined to decode Yvette’s mysterious keepsake. But what restless magic will be unleashed? And what are Yvette and Elena willing to risk to become the witches they were destined to be?<br />
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Can you briefly describe THE VINE WITCH SERIES, its characters and what’s happening in THE GLAMOURIST?</h3>
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The series is about the sisterhood of magic formed between three women who meet in a witch's prison. All have their own unique form of magic that they wield, and in THE GLAMOURIST we learn about Yvette who was abandoned as a child and left in the care of a cabaret owner in Belle Époque Paris. After stealing a wish, her dream of learning who and what she is begins to spin its energy into the world. Naturally, Elena and Sidra are there to help her sort out the trouble that follows. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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I do love them all in their own way, but Yvette with her foul mouth and joie de vivre spirit makes her irresistible to me. Which is probably why her story was a fairly easy one to write.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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A lot of people wondered what happened to Sidra and Yvette at the end of The Vine Witch, and so I knew I had to follow that trail in book two. The idea for the story came from looking at paintings by Gustav Klimpt. While he wasn't a French painter, I stole inspiration from some of his most famous paintings to craft Yvette's backstory: The Kiss, Golden Tears, and the Three Ages of Woman. I also like to interweave elements of folklore and Shakespeare into my novels, and THE GLAMOURIST was no different. Without being too spoilery, this second novel is a little more obvious about which Shakespeare play it pays homage to. </div>
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If you could choose one song to describe each of your books, which ones would it be?</h3>
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The Vine Witch had me listening to all the witchy stuff, especially Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks, so it's a toss-up between Waking the Witch and Rhiannon. But Yvette's story is a little different. She's a little different. From a certain character's perspective Just Like Heaven by The Cure fits the story pretty well, I think. And, since I'm done with book three, I'll throw in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3lWwBslWqg">Desert Rose by Sting for THE CONJURER.</a> Yes, I come from the eighties. :)</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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This is always such a tough question! For Elena, perhaps Marion Cotillard (Inception/Macbeth 2015). Bonus that she's French, too. A good choice for Yvette, who is lithe and pixie-like with a streak of mischief ten feet wide, might be the mercurial Julia Garner (The Americans/Ozark). And for Sidra, Zoe Kravitz might make a good choice. Her eyes have that depth like how I imagine for a jinni who is so good at prognostication. </div>
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A glass of pinot noir was an obvious choice for The Vine Witch, but for The Glamourist I think a suitable drink might be the infamous absinthe of the Belle Époque period, sipped at a table inside a dubious cabaret in the Montmartre district. Those who over imbibed were said to be "chasing the green fairy". </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE GLAMOURIST?</h3>
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I'm reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087N8X2R3/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B087N8X2R3&linkId=9866439a73da342d4ebb115aea30b024">The Raven Lady</a>, an ARC by Sharon Lynn Fisher. This is the second in the series. I haven't read the first one titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982684410/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1982684410&linkId=275ee6293c61e466978555082c43c26b">The Absinthe Earl</a> yet, but this one is great fun with a worthy romance in it. Out soon. </div>
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While it is a dream to be able to write novels and live in one's imagination, there is also a level of tedium involved. What I mean by that, is when you're being paid to write you must consistently dedicate time to the project whether you feel like putting words on the page or not. I'm a slow writer by most standards, averaging 500 words a day, so for me to meet a six-month deadline, I have to write every single day, inspired or not. Aside from that, coming up with a "stick the landing" kind of ending is always a challenge. </div>
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I'm writing a novel about a pair of sisters in Victorian-era London (I think, though this is still in flux) who have some unusual shapeshifting abilities. They get swept up in a murder investigation after they scavenge something off the bank of the Thames they really shouldn't have touched.<br />
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The Boundless <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/247442-the-beholder">(The Beholder #2)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17310926.Anna_Bright">Anna Bright</a><br />
Publisher: HarperTeen<br />
Release Date: June 9th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Retellings</div>
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<b>This breathtaking sequel to The Beholder will take you on a journey into a darkly sparkling fairy tale, perfect for fans of The Selection and Caraval.</b></div>
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When Selah found true love with Prince Torden of Norway, she never imagined she’d have to leave him behind. All because the Beholder’s true mission was a secret Selah’s crew didn’t trust her to keep: transporting weapons to the rebels fighting against the brutal tsarytsya, whose shadow looms over their next port of Shvartsval’d. A place Selah hoped she’d never go.</div>
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Can you briefly describe THE BEHOLDER series, its characters and what’s going to happen in THE BOUNDLESS?</h3>
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THE BEHOLDER duology is a there-and-back-again fairy tale. (I literally thought about calling it “There and Back Again” and then remembered that title was taken.)</div>
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Main character Selah will be the leader of her country one day—except all the men running her life at the moment insist she can’t do it unless she’s married. And the guy she’s always had a crush on has turned her down. But—don’t worry!—her stepmother has set her up some options. Across the Atlantic Ocean. Essentially, she’s not supposed to come home until she’s got a ring on her finger.</div>
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As tends to happen on quests, she’s run into some obstacles. Guys who aren’t who they say they are. Guys with issues of their own. Guys she’s in love with and some she’s not sure about. Also, evil empresses. (Yeah, we meet one of those in this instalment.)</div>
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All told: Selah’s got to sort out her personal issues—while doing her duty by her home and doing what she thinks is right by others. It takes about 400 pages and I’m super proud of where she ends up.</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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I love writing Cobie. She’s much blunter than I’m brave enough to be and totally unconstrained by other people’s opinions.</div>
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I’d been doing a lot of writing and reading that felt like responsibility and practicality. And then one day I read a really, really fun sci-fi romance (The Host, by Stephenie Meyer) and some fairy tales, and it felt like coming back to life. The idea for THE BEHOLDER came out of nowhere—just the idea of retelling some fairy tales within a frame story. (And then I worked on it for 6 years.)</div>
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If you could choose one song to describe your books in the series, which ones would it be?</h3>
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Run, by Delta Rae. The song feels like its name—it’s percussive and exciting and full of these wildly adventurous lyrics. I listened to it over and over again when I wrote the jump-in-the-lake scene in THE BEHOLDER.</div>
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I’ve become (belatedly) obsessed with Florence Pugh—I would die for her to play Selah. I also think Maddie Baillio, who played Millie in the Dumplin’ adaptation, could convey Selah’s sweet naiveté really well (also I basically sobbed when she sang High and Mighty because I love pageants, hymns, and girls Being Cute and Doing Great). Also I think if we all try really hard, we could convince Prince Harry to play Torden because doesn’t he live in L.A. now?</div>
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Tea and a pile of baked goods. PG Tips and Millionaire shortbread and Jammy Dodgers. Although if we were sticking with the theme of what Selah eats and cooks in this book it might just be, like, a lot of potatoes.</div>
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The Redpoint Crux</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18494856.Morgan_Shamy">Morgan Shamy</a><br />
Publisher: The Parliament House<br />
Release Date: June 9th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery</div>
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<b>Fans of The Phantom of the Opera and Black Swan will enjoy this thrilling debut.</b></div>
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When Megan Van Helsburg gets kicked off the U.S.A. Climbing Team, she has no choice but to return home and leave her climbing career behind. With no coach, no money, and no prospects, she joins the corps de ballet determined to improve her strength and agility. But the ballet theater is in dire straits. Not only do a series of murders break loose, but the ballerinas are becoming deathly thin and brain-dead. As Megan investigates, she meets Bellamy, a tortured young man who lives beneath the depths of the theater. Megan falls hard and fast for Bellamy, who becomes her mentor, but something is off about him.</div>
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It isn't until the company announces they're doing Giselle for the fall performance that Megan realizes the parallels between the ghost story and the lives around her. Megan must find a way to not only save her climbing career, but balance her feelings for Bellamy, and stop the murders and dying girls before she, too, is numbered among the dead.</div>
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Can you briefly describe THE REDPOINT CRUX and its characters?</h3>
Fans of The Phantom of the Opera and Black Swan will enjoy THE REDPOINT CRUX! It’s about 17-year-old Megan “Red” Van Helsburg who’s gets kicked off the U.S.A. Climbing Team and has no choice but to return home and leave her climbing career behind. With no prospects, she joins the corps de ballet determined to improve her strength and agility, but the ballet theatre is in dire straits. Not only do a series of murders break loose, but the ballerinas are becoming deathly thin and brain-dead. As Megan investigates, she meets Bellamy, a tortured young man who lives beneath the depths of the theatre. She falls hard and fast for him, but something is off about him. It isn’t until the company announces they’re doing Giselle for the fall performance that Megan realizes the parallels between the ghost story and the lives around her. She must find a way to not only save her climbing career, but balance her feelings for Bellamy, and stop the murders and dying girls before she, too, is numbered among the dead. <br />
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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Definitely Bellamy! He’s a tortured soul, who lives beneath the depths of the theatre. I love everything about him—the way he speaks, the way he moves, the way he’s determined to help Megan. Even though there is something very off about him, I think his relationship with Megan drives the story forward. </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
When I was 19 years old, I visited Halifax Nova Scotia. I spent time at a specific bell tower, and it was the most magical place I’d ever been. I knew in my heart there was a story to be told there, and when I started writing it, I couldn’t stop. <br />
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It’s kind of a creepy song…but it was the inspiration behind The Redpoint Crux. It’s called MK Ultra by Muse. You should look it up. I love it! <br />
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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Don’t laugh at me, but because of the song by Muse, I pictured Bellamy as Matt Bellamy in his earliest years. (Which is why I named him Bellamy!) </div>
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What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date?</h3>
Oooo. Definitely hot chocolate, in a haunted theatre. <br />
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE REDPOINT CRUX?</h3>
Great question! I’d say <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765328674/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0765328674&linkId=fa64f14e5c1a5614a7e47191fd0f3b9f">Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616205903/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1616205903&linkId=aeaed0d806e610094e910807309c8b8a">The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma</a>. <br />
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Not doubting yourself. It’s so easy to get caught up in the world, and how gifted everyone else is. I’ve learned you HAVE to write for you—because I truly believe we all have incredible stories within us. <br />
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I’m working hard with my agent on a couple different projects! One of them is very dear to my heart, and I’m excited for it to be out in this world!<br />
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Morgan discovered writing when her three-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. It was through that experience which instilled the need to share art and magic with children through words on the page. Morgan currently lives with her X-Games gold-medalist husband and four children in the cold mountains of Alaska.<br />
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The Court of Miracles <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/209450-a-court-of-miracles">(A Court of Miracles #1)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16344312.Kester_Grant">Kester Grant</a><br />
Publisher: Knopf Children's<br />
Release Date: June 2nd 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Retellings, Science Fiction</div>
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<b>Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution.</b></div>
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In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger--the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh--Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice--protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger.</div>
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THE COURT OF MIRACLES is a reimagining of Les Miserables meets Six of Crows. It’s the story of a young thief desperate to save her sister who takes on cruel royalty and the lords of the city’s underworld criminal guilds. </div>
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Enjolras St Juste, he is just so delightful to write, because he’s so extreme in his obsessive regard for the revolution over anything else. TCOM being a Les Mis retelling, the first draft included the character of Marius Pontmercy. And every time I wrote a scene with him and Nina, I felt like pulling teeth. I kept saying to my husband “If only I could write this scene with Enjolras instead of Marius, it’d be 100% better and hilarious …” then one day it clicked. Why did I need Marius anyway? I booted him out of the book (he’s the worst in any case) and gave all his scenes to Enjolras, and now they are glorious. </div>
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So many things combined, a lifelong obsession with Les Mis, seeing the latest Jungle Book movie, thinking of all my favourite stories…. It all melded together in one lightning strike moment.</div>
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Chiwetel Ejiofor as Valjean. Jessica Chastain as Javert. “The Tiger” was inspired in part by Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave. Sam Clafin as Enjolras. Tom Holland as the Dauphin, Gillian Anderson in Bleak House or Eva Green or Kiersten Scott Thomas as Madame Corday. Meera Syal as Lady Komayd. Riz Ahmed as Montparnasse, Vincent Cassel as Thenardier, Charles Dance as Lord Orso, </div>
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Some artisanal French bread – you’ll see why in the story. And any drink that hasn’t been poisoned. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE COURT OF MIRACLES?</h3>
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Here’s a list of read-a-likes to tide people over till TCOM’s sequel out next year –culled from reviews. </div>
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I have an epic animal fantasy called Goldenpaw coming out early 2021; for fans of Watership Down, Warriors, Redwall, Guardians of Ga’Hoole, and the Jungle Book. You can find out more <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42070724-goldenpaw">here</a>.</div>
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Kester Grant is a British-Mauritian writer of color. She was born in London, grew up between the UK, Democratic Republic of Congo, and the tropical island paradise of Mauritius. As a wanton nomad she and her husband are unsure which country they currently reside in but they can generally be found surrounded by their fiendish pack of cats and dogs.<br />
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/245828-a-song-of-wraiths-and-ruin">(A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18395190.Roseanne_A_Brown">Roseanne A. Brown</a><br />
Publisher: Balzer + Bray<br />
Release Date: June 2nd 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy</div>
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<b>The first in an fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction.</b></div>
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For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts Malik’s younger sister, Nadia, as payment into the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.</div>
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But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic . . . requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition.</div>
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When Malik rigs his way into the contest, they are set on a course to destroy each other. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to see their tasks to the death?<br />
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin is a YA fantasy novel set in a fantasy world inspired by West African folklore. It follows two protagonists, a refugee named Malik and a princess named Karina. When Malik’s sister is kidnapped by a vengeful spirit, he makes a deal to win her freedom by killing the crown princess. To do this, he enters a competition to win the princess’s hand in marriage. However, Malik doesn’t know that Karina is planning the winner of the competition for a spell that will bring her dead mother back to life. Sparks fly when they finally meet and realize they have far more in common than they thought….</div>
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Or the TL;DR version, it’s what would happen if Aladdin and Jasmine had to kill each other but in a West African-inspired world. There is lots of court intrigue, lots of dark magic, and maybe a talking hyena as well. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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I’d say Karina is probably my favorite character, but Malik is the one I relate to the most. Karina is the kind of Black girl I’ve always wanted to see in books. She is fierce and powerful and loving, but she is also hurt and constantly making mistakes and learning from them. Because I grew up with Black girl character who were rarely more than stereotypes or the sassy sidekick, getting to write Karina as a three-dimensional person with so many emotions and layers who still gets to love and be loved meant the world to me. But temperament wise, I’m definitely more of a Karina than a Malik!</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I got the idea for A Song of Wraiths and Ruin back in 2016. I was coming back to a therapy session thinking a lot about the ways mental illness had impacted my own life and I thought to myself “If a ghost tried to take over my mind right now, it would be like ‘There is a lot going on in here. You can have this back.’” Then an idea came to me for a boy who dealt with both mental illness and the supernatural, and that character became Malik! </div>
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From there, the idea grew as I incorporated more story elements that I loved. Oral storytelling is super important to Ghanaian culture, so I wove that into the magic system, and I’m a huge sucker for romance, so I made the main romance trope enemies-to-lovers. Bit by bit, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin was born! </div>
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One song I listened to on repeat over and over again was I See Fire by Ed Sheeran, HEAR ME OUT HERE, I’m not a huge Ed Sheeran fan OR Lord of the Rings fan, but that song perfectly captures the essence of heartbreak, tragedy, and epic scale of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. (That sounds extremely depressing; I promise this isn’t a sad book!) </div>
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Justice Smith for Malik 100%. He is so funny, and perfectly exudes that mix of strength and compassion that is integral to Malik’s character. I just adored him in Detective Pikachu. And she’s a little older than an ideal Karina actress would be, but I would love Danielle Brooks in the role. She is an amazing actress, plus Karina would absolutely need to be played by a dark-skinned, plus-sized Black actress. </div>
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I think the book would go best with a cup of mint tea, seated by a campfire as a storyteller weaves you a tale of epic proportions that whisks you off to a far away world. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN?</h3>
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Sure! For people who find themselves with a massive book hangover after ASOWAR, they should definitely check out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062869248/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062869248&linkId=bc57bfa7ac71709d1eef6ba793c90034">THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT by Swati Teerdhala</a>, which is an enemies-to-lovers, Hindu mythology inspired fantasy cat and mouse game between a soldier and the rebel who killed his general.<br />
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Another book they’d devour is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250315328/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250315328&linkId=85691b1354e2bca5fe358151b83ccb3a">A SONG BELOW WATER by Bethany C. Morrow</a>. It follows two sister friends in a magical version of Portland, and it features sirens, magic, and a realistic and timely portrayal of the kinds of injustices Black women face when trying to find their voice.<br />
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These ones aren’t out yet, but <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250204356/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250204356&linkId=993d92f59f233eb61151832803049164">WHERE DREAMS DESCEND by Janella Angeles</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419739824/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1419739824&linkId=ed4814acdb27165f28c96589bb32c5f7">RAYBEARER by Jordan Ifueko</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1547603879/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1547603879&linkId=5ae2f16127cdb4fe23e1dd3998efc489">CINDERELLA IS DEAD by Kalynn Bayron</a> are some of my most highly anticipated YA Fantasy books for this year!</div>
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I think the most difficult part of writing a book is accepting that what you see in your head and what you get on the page aren’t going to match for a long, long time. That gap between what a book could be and what it is disheartens so many people, and it’s the biggest reason why I never finished a book before A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. But I’ve learned since that I need to accept the ugly writing for what it is, because without it in all its hideous glory, I won’t have anything to polish into the beautiful stories hiding inside. </div>
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ASOWAR 2 is due back to my editor only a few weeks after ASOWAR comes out, so right now my life is a steady diet of Gatorade and furious typing. Outside of the realm of ASOWAR, I have another project in the works. I can’t say much now, but I will say fans of vampires, Sailor Moon-style team ups, and spooky settings are going to love it. Follow my Twitter and IG @rosiesrambles for more updates as I’m allowed to share them!</div>
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Jo & Laurie</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2895707.Margaret_Stohl">Margaret Stohl</a> & <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21911.Melissa_de_la_Cruz">Melissa de la Cruz</a><br />
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers<br />
Release Date: June 2nd 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Retellings</div>
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<b>Bestselling authors Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz bring us a romantic retelling of Little Women starring Jo March and her best friend, the boy next door, Theodore "Laurie" Laurence.</b></div>
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1869, Concord, Massachusetts: After the publication of her first novel, Jo March is shocked to discover her book of scribbles has become a bestseller, and her publisher and fans demand a sequel. While pressured into coming up with a story, she goes to New York with her dear friend Laurie for a week of inspiration—museums, operas, and even a once-in-a-lifetime reading by Charles Dickens himself!</div>
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But Laurie has romance on his mind, and despite her growing feelings, Jo's desire to remain independent leads her to turn down his heartfelt marriage proposal and sends the poor boy off to college heartbroken. When Laurie returns to Concord with a sophisticated new girlfriend, will Jo finally communicate her true heart's desire or lose the love of her life forever?</div>
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Can you briefly describe JO & LAURIE and its characters?</h3>
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<b>Mel: </b>Jo & Laurie is a retelling of Little Women that imagines Jo herself wrote the book and is now writing the sequel. Jo March is as headstrong as ever, and now dealing with writerly success and sequel pressure, with her steadfast friend Theodore Laurence at her side. Her sisters – sweet Meg and ambitious Amy, are also in the book. </div>
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<b>Margie: </b>To describe Jo’s writerly struggles, we took our inspiration from Louisa May Alcott, who became an instant literary phenomenon upon publication of the book, and then was immediately enlisted to write another, to finish the stories she had begun. As writers, we know how hard that moment can be--especially when you are writing the story of your family, as both Alcott and Jo were. We also know how hard it can be to juggle writing a love story with living one, and we wanted to capture that between Jo and Laurie as well. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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<b>Mel:</b> Jo has always been our favourite character in Little Women, and in Jo & Laurie, she is the focus of the story. When we were little girls, we looked up to Jo as someone who embodied our desire to be writers. She was our first heroine. And Laurie was our first boyfriend and we were always aghast that she does not marry him. It never felt “right” to us, and when we had the idea of the book that was our first ‘lightbulb’ moment – we’ll rewrite Little Women to give the 12-year-old girls we still are the ending that we’ve always wanted. </div>
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<b>Margie: </b>Every woman writer who read that book identified with Jo. After reading Little Women, I went around telling people my future plans were to steal away to a garret in Sardinia and write while staring out the window at the azure sea. I think those were the exact words, ha! But Jo’s garret was what I aspired to, always.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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<b>Mel: </b>I had been toying with a Little Women retelling for years, and had tried several different versions but only when I spoke to Margie did we figure out the right “take.” The book is about writing, writing careers, and women and writing and romance! </div>
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<b>Margie: </b>I think our own friendship is so sisterly it sort of felt like we lived in Orchard House, the Alcott family home, as we wrote it. We were honorary March sisters!</div>
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Mel: “Lucky” by Jason Mraz, “Lucky I’m in love with my best friend…lucky to have been where I have been, lucky to be coming home again.”<br />
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<b>Margie: </b>Actually, I’d tell everyone to listen to the soundtrack from the latest Little Women movie; I loved it.</div>
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<b>Mel: </b>I’d say we’d just re-do Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and have Saoirse and Timothee again for sure!<br />
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<b>Margie: </b>I loved Katherine Hepburn, Maya Hawke and Saoirse Ronan as Jo -- but my all-time fave Laurie was Christian Bale. I know, it’s my controversial hot take.</div>
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<b>Mel: </b>Cherry cordials? I’ve never had one but they always sound delicious in the Little Women books.</div>
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<b>Margie: </b>A first champagne! Like Meg when she misbehaves at Sally Gardiner’s; we feature an entire tower of champagne in our New York City chapters.</div>
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<b>Mel: </b>Re-read the original of course, and the sequels! Little Men and Jo’s Boys.</div>
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<b>Margie: </b>Agreed. We wrote Jo & Laurie out of immense affection for the original, so be sure to re-read those!</div>
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<b>Mel: </b>My middle grade fairy tale series <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250311217/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250311217&linkId=df978cebff86e1cf0bf7090348ea0746">NEVER AFTER</a>, the first book out in December.</div>
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<b>Margie: </b>A whole bunch of secret Marvel projects that have yet to be announced. Stay tuned!</div>
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She is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat.</div>
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Her books for adults include the novel Cat’s Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch heels and Faux-Pas.</div>
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She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews.</div>
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Melissa grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. She majored in art history and English at Columbia University (and minored in nightclubs and shopping!).</div>
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She now divides her time between New York and Los Angeles, where she lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and daughter.<br />
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Margaret Stohl</h3>
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She is a #1 New York Times bestselling nerd, world-builder, video game creator, comic book writer and festival founder.</div>
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As an award-winning young adult author, she has been published in fifty countries and thirty-two languages and has sold more than ten million books worldwide. Beautiful Creatures debuted as the Amazon #1 Teen book of the year; seven of Margaret’s books have reached bestseller lists around the world.</div>
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She has published fifteen novels and graphic novels, as well as contributed to several games and countless comics since her debut. Her last book, Cats Vs Robots: This is War, was a family affair, illustrated by her child, the artist Kay Peterson, and co-written with her husband, Lewis Peterson. It also starred three of her family’s five cats.</div>
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After Beautiful Creatures was released as a feature film from Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, Margaret began working with Marvel on her bestselling Black Widow: Forever Red duology; in 2017 she began writing the ongoing Mighty Captain Marvel comic, followed by the acclaimed Life of Captain Marvel miniseries, where she established a new origin story for Carol Danvers in preparation for the theatrical debut of Brie Larson as “Captain Marvel” for the MCU. </div>
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When not roaming the halls of Seattle game developer Bungie - where she oversees the creation of new global IPs - Margaret can often be seen at a Comicon or at one of the teen and youth book festivals she co-founded, YALLFEST (Charleston, SC) and YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA), the largest in the country. Wherever she goes, you can find out more about her (and invariably her cats) at @mstohl on twitter or margaret_stohl on instagram or margaret_stohl on snapchat or at mstohl.com.<br />
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The Archer at Dawn <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/236669-the-tiger-at-midnight-trilogy">(The Tiger at Midnight Trilogy #2)</a></h3>
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by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17649349.Swati_Teerdhala">Swati Teerdhala</a></div>
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Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books</div>
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Release Date: May 26th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, India, Cultural, Mythology</div>
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The Sun Mela is many things: a call for peace, a cause for celebration, and, above all, a deadly competition. For Kunal and Esha, finally working together as rebel spies, it provides the perfect guise to infiltrate King Vardaan’s vicious court.</div>
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Kunal will return to his role as dedicated Senap soldier, at the Sun Mela to provide extra security for the palace during the peace summit for the divided nations of Jansa and Dharka. Meanwhile, Esha will use her new role as adviser to Prince Harun to keep a pulse on shifting political parties and seek out allies for their rebel cause. A radical plan is underfoot to rescue Jansa’s long-lost Princess Reha—the key to the stolen throne.</div>
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But amid the Mela games and glittering festivities, much more dangerous forces lie in wait. With the rebel Blades’ entry into Vardaan’s court, a match has been lit, and long-held secrets will force Kunal and Esha to reconsider their loyalties—to their country and to each other. Getting into the palace was the easy task; coming out together will be a battle for their lives.<br />
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Can you briefly describe THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT TRILOGY, its characters and what’s happening in THE ARCHER AT DAWN?</h3>
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Sure! THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT is the first in a YA fantasy trilogy that follows the story of Kunal, a dutiful soldier, and Esha, a legendary rebel spy named the Viper. When their paths cross one night and Esha is accused of the murder of Kunal’s General, a dangerous cat and mouse game starts between them, one which throws everything they’ve known into question. In THE ARCHER AT DAWN, without giving away any spoilers, things have come to a head. Kunal and Esha go to Jansa with the mission of rescuing the Lost Princess just as the Sun Mela, an ancient celebratory tournament, begins. Problems ensue! </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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This is a tough one! I love both of my main characters, Kunal and Esha, equally. They’re two halves of a whole. But I have to say in THE ARCHER AT DAWN, my favorite character is Alok, who you get to meet early on in THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT. He has a bigger, more fun role in this book.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I first got the idea for The Tiger at Midnight when I was traveling and visiting an old Fort. It was the first spark of an idea of what would become The Tiger at Midnight and the first time I heard the voice of Kunal, one of the two main characters. I looked out from one of the old window openings and wondered what would be the most odd or startling thing a soldier of old might have seen. A girl. And that’s the opening page of THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT. </div>
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If you could choose one song to describe each book in THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT TRILOGY, which one would it be?</h3>
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THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT: Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine</div>
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THE ARCHER AT DAWN: Don’t Let Me Down by The Chainsmokers</div>
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Book 3…you’ll have to wait for that. :)</div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters?</h3>
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This one’s hard because I’ve never had a 100% fancast of my characters! I recently fell in love with the idea of Geraldine Vishwanathan as Esha and Avan Jogia as Harun. Kunal is a hard one to cast though! I don’t have the perfect fancast for him. But in a dream world I’d love to see a young Hritik Roshan.</div>
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A hot cup of masala chai in a sunroom or out on the porch.</div>
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Absolutely. I had the pleasure of reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062891499/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062891499&linkId=0cd9eb25c1c42a2fef054799c48498c1">A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN by Roseanne A. Brown</a> early and it’s the perfect blend of conflicted romance and thrilling fantasy that I think fans of THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT series would love. Additionally, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250056977/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250056977&linkId=80c9cbdf5721eab261a82a7a38961510">THE WINNER'S CURSE</a> is a classic YA fantasy trilogy that also blends romance and fantasy together perfectly.</div>
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I’m currently finishing up edits on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40304547-untitled">Book 3</a> of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/236669-the-tiger-at-midnight-trilogy">THE TIGER AT MIDNIGHT TRILOGY</a> and working on something new!</div>
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After graduating from the University of Virginia with a BS in finance and BA in history, she tumbled into the marketing side of the technology industry. She’s passionate about many things, including how the right ratio of curd-to-crust in a lemon tart. She currently lives in New York City.</div>
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The Bone Thief <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/271079-the-bone-charmer">(The Bone Charmer #2)</a></h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13582922.Breeana_Shields">Breeana Shields</a><br />
Publisher: Page Street Kids<br />
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<i>“I was absolutely swept away by the world of The Bone Charmer.” – Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series</i></div>
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<b>A deft exploration of the weight of grief and cost of revenge, Breeana Shields’s Bone Charmer duology reaches its spine-tingling conclusion in this high-octane fantasy-thriller.</b></div>
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Saskia returns to Ivory Hall to train in bone magic, determined to stop Latham from gaining the power of all three Sights—past, present, and future. But danger lurks within the fortress’s marrow. Trials are underway for the apprentices, and the tasks feel specifically engineered to torment Saskia, which is exactly what Latham wants.</div>
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As she grows increasingly more suspicious, her thirst for revenge becomes all-consuming. Together with the friends she can trust and the boy she loved in another lifetime, Saskia traces clues from Latham’s past to determine what he’ll do next. Their search leads them across Kastelia and brings them to a workshop housing a vast collection of horrors, including the bones Latham stole from Gran, and the knowledge that the future isn’t all that’s in jeopardy—but the past as well.<br />
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Can you briefly describe THE BONE CHARMER series, its characters and what’s happening in THE BONE THIEF?</h3>
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Absolutely! The Bone Charmer takes place in a world where bones are the source of all magic--they tell the future, reveal the past, and expose secrets in the present. The story follows a girl named Saskia, and on the day of her kenning—a special bone reading that determines apprenticeships—her worst fears come true. She receives an assignment to train as a Bone Charmer, like her mother, and even worse, a match-making reading that pairs her with Bram—a boy who has suspicious tattoos that hint of a dark past.</div>
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Saskia knows her mother saw multiple paths for her, yet chose one she knew Saskia wouldn’t want. Their argument leads to a fracture in one of the bones, and the break has devastating consequences—Saskia’s future has split as well. Now she will live her two potential paths simultaneously. Only one future can survive. And Saskia’s life is in danger in both.</div>
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And then in THE BONE THIEF, Saskia’s story continues as she deals with the fallout from the path that survived and sets out on a quest to punish the person responsible.</div>
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My favorite character is still Saskia simply because I’ve spent so much time writing from her perspective that it would feel disloyal to choose anyone else. However, THE BONE THIEF has a big cast of secondary characters who were so much fun to write and I’m quite attached to all of them. </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I’ve talked about my inspiration for THE BONE CHARMER elsewhere—it was a melding of multiple ideas finally colliding— but the idea for THE BONE THIEF was its own unique challenge. I actually really love writing sequels, and I often feel like my sequels are stronger than my first books in a series. There’s something really freeing about working with established characters who I know well (and hopefully the readers are invested in them too!). It makes it easier to really dig deep with both plot and characterization. So, as strange as it sounds, I feel like the ideas for THE BONE THIEF came from the characters themselves.</div>
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Another Life, by Ingrid Michaelson for THE BONE CHARMER</div>
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Not a One, by The Young Wild for THE BONE THIEF</div>
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If a reader could make the impossible happen, it would be perfect to read the book in the catacombs of Paris. They only allow water down there, but if you’re planning to stay long enough to finish the series, you probably shouldn’t drink anything at all!</div>
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Once I finish a book I love, I often turn to something in a totally a different genre. I recently read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062338064/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062338064&linkId=8981916f6adfa9522516506c77901930">Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson</a>. It’s a mystery, so like THE BONE THIEF, it has lots of twists and turns, but it’s not a fantasy. I loved it and I think my readers will too.</div>
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The hardest part is whatever I’m doing at the moment. When I’m in the middle of drafting, I long to be editing—at least then the book would be finished, and I’d be in the process of making it better. However, when I’m stuck in the editing process, I miss the freedom of drafting. That might sound like I don’t love my job, but I do. I just love and hate all the parts equally. :)</div>
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I’m working on drafting a new stand-alone fantasy about a magical luxury hotel full of secrets. It’s called <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51035701-the-splendor">THE SPLENDOR</a> and it comes out in fall of 2021.<br />
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Camp</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4731557.Lev_A_C_Rosen">Lev A.C. Rosen</a><br />
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<br />
Release Date: May 26th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBT, Queer</div>
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<b>From the author of the acclaimed Jack of Hearts (and other parts) comes a sweet and sharp screwball comedy that critiques the culture of toxic masculinity within the queer community.</b></div>
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Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim - who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists.</div>
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This year, though, it's going to be different. Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del' - buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up show tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him.</div>
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But as he and Hudson grow closer, Randy has to ask himself how much is he willing to change for love. And is it really love anyway, if Hudson doesn't know who he truly is?<br />
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Can you briefly describe CAMP and its characters?</h3>
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Sure! Camp is about sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff, who, for the past 4 summers, has attended Camp Outland, an LGBTQIA+ summer camp… and for all four of those summers has had a wild crush on Hudson Aaronson-Lim, who barely knows Randy exists. Randy is a nail-polish wearing, unicorn loving femme theatre kid, and Hudson a butch jock who every summer finds another butch jock to have a brief relationship with. Randy is determined to win Hudson’s heart, though, so this summer, he returns as butch jock ‘Del’ – the ultimate bit of acting. He’s determined not just to be a fling, but to make Hudson fall in love with him. He’s helped out in his plan by his two best friends, George, another actor who is sad Randy can’t be in the show this year, and Ashleigh, a techie who thinks this is probably all a terrible idea. There are a lot of other characters, including drag queen counsellors, exhausted camp directors, and a slew of campers, all queer in various ways. </div>
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Obviously, Randy is the point of view character and I love him to death, but I think my favourite outside Randy is Mark, the theatre counsellor, who is also one of the counsellors who oversees the cabin Randy and his friends stay in. Mark is neurotic, overly invested in his campers, and needs to call his shrink regularly. He doesn’t understand all of the plan, but what he sees is Randy changing himself for a guy, and he hates that – he hates the butch thing, the masc4masc thing, and he expresses it… in almost colourful language, before stopping himself. </div>
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So the original inspiration comes from the old Doris Day/Rock Hudson 60s sex comedies. I love a screwball rom-com, and I really wanted to write something in that vein, but make it queer, and contemporary and YA. Those old movies are about the “battle of the sexes” which doesn’t really apply to an m/m relationship. So I made it battle of the butch/femme. People playing at the sort of person they think a butch wants, or a femme wants, but also kind of falling in love with them while pretending to be someone else! It’s delightful and screwball and sexy. </div>
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Well, over the course of the book, the theatre kids are putting on Bye Bye Birdie, which I chose because it’s 60s and deals with ideas of gender and relationships. There’s one scene where Randy is trying to re-do his wardrobe to be appropriately “masc” and he’s putting on a fashion show for his fellow campers. Mark turns on “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ilu-ARtiY">How Lovely to Be a Woman</a>,” which is all about the various 60s stereotypes of femininity, and how they’re performative more than intrinsic. So I think that would be the one I’d like… although if it existed, the truly ideal version would be Troye Sivan singing it or something. </div>
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Camp food is, in my experience, never good. And I made it a point to emphasize that. But I think in an ideal world, Camp is to be read outside, in nature, like a summer camp, and it’s a burger, fries and strawberry milkshake kind of book. These days, outside is harder, but I think reading Camp will remind us all of the summer we seem to be losing. At least I hope it will. </div>
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This is an excellent question, and I have two answers, depending on how you want to pair it. Camp is a sweet and sexy summer camp romance, and if you’re looking for more of that, then Running with Lions, by Julian Winters is an ideal partner. It’s a summer soccer camp queer romance, and like Camp, it deals with trying to be everything to all people, and found families and acceptance. But if after Camp you want something that contrasts it more, I’d suggest Surrender Your Sons, by Adam Sass, which is about a queer summer camp of a much darker nature, but which has a lot of similar themes to Camp – expectations, performance, the way queer love needs to be memorialized, and the way internalized homophobia can make us into bullies. I think Running with Lions and Camp is like a dessert pairing, but Surrender your Sons and Camp is more of a wine pairing. So really, the best thing to do is read all three. </div>
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Lev Rosen is the author of books for all ages. Two for adults: All Men of Genius (Amazon Best of the Month, Audie Award Finalist) and Depth (Amazon Best of the Year, Shamus Award Finalist, Kirkus Best Science Fiction for April). Two middle-grade books: Woundabout (illustrated by his brother, Ellis Rosen), and The Memory Wall. His first Young Adult Novel, Jack of Hearts (and other parts) was an American Library Association Rainbow List Top 10 of 2018. His books have been sold around the world and translated into different languages as well as being featured on many best of the year lists, and nominated for awards. </div>
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Kingdom Above the Cloud (Tales from Adia, #1)</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20053285.Maggie_Platt">Maggie Platt</a><br />
Publisher: Ambassador International<br />
Release Date: April 17th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Allegory</div>
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Abandoned as infants, Tovi and her twin brother were raised by an eclectic tribe of warm, kind people in a treehouse village in the valley. After her brother’s sudden disappearance Tovi questions her life and her faith in an invisible King. Ignoring her best friend Silas’ advice, she decides to search for her brother in the kingdom on top of the mountain.</div>
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Above the cloud, the Council of Masters receives their orders. Tovi and her brother are the objectives. King Damien has a plan and Tovi is the key. The Council of Masters want her, but will she remain unscathed?</div>
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Amidst the glamour of the kingdom above the cloud Tovi is torn between her own dark desires and unanswered questions. It starts with a snake and a crown. When the ring is complete, will her life be over?</div>
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Kingdom Above the Cloud is the story of Tovi Tivka, a young woman living in the whimsical valley of Adia, where everyone lives in tree houses. She and her twin brother were raised by foster grandparents who took them in as infants. Meanwhile, evil King Damien, who rules his kingdom on the top of a nearby mountain, chooses several of his young, elite “masters” to play a game. Their goal is to use their talents (based loosely on the seven deadly sins) to draw someone from the valley up to the top of the mountain. Several of these masters set their sights on Tovi.</div>
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Eryx is by far my favorite! He became a pet of mine sometime in the middle of writing this story. He was very minor at first. He is one of the “bad guys” who lives on the mountain, and he represents the sin of wrath. One day, I heard the song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLoYVnh4sY">“A Bad Dream” by Keane</a> and the lines, “I’m a man, I was born to hate,” and “I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting, guess I’m not the fighting kind,” hit me so hard. It knew in that moment that Eryx has lived a life of wrath, but he is exhausted, frustrated, and longing for something different. I’m not totally sure why he became so dear to me. Maybe it’s the hope he represents. He’s a “bad guy,” but he wants to be better. Adwin (the God character in the story) goes out of his way, time and time again, to draw Eryx in. I hope we can really see them connect in a sequel, but we’ll have to see where Eryx takes us in the story!</div>
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It really started with a daydream. What if there was a world full of characters who had mastered either a deadly sin or a fruit of the spirit? I started designing characters and imagining scenes, and it took on a life of its own. By the time I was done writing it, it was a deep dive into my Christian faith on a scale I never expected!</div>
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I've always pictured Silas (one of the main characters) as Zac Efron. But, not the Zac Efron of today… more like the shaggy-haired High School Musical Zac (I started writing the story in 2007!). For the rest of the characters, I’ve never had specific actors in mind. I think I’d like to see it with a bunch of unknowns!</div>
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A hammock strung between shady trees, with your favorite fruity beverage (whether that is juice, flavored water, or hard cider!). Tovi lives in a tree house, so sitting under or in a tree is ideal!</div>
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One of my recent favorites is the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P4X84GN/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07P4X84GN&linkId=96d156b91c4c4c31453f1744d7fa2c31">Story Peddler series by Lindsay Franklin</a>. It’s another whimsical fantasy world with lots of allegory and spiritual themes.</div>
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The Henna Wars</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17552525.Adiba_Jaigirdar">Adiba Jaigirdar</a><br />
Publisher: Page Street Kids<br />
Release Date: May 12th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Romance, LGBT, Contemporary, Queer</div>
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When Dimple Met Rishi meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls with rival henna businesses.</div>
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When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants—as long as she isn’t herself. Because Muslim girls aren’t lesbians. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she also doesn’t want to lose her relationship with her family. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.</div>
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Flávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. Amidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled—but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.<br />
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Sure! The Henna Wars is about Nishat, who is Bangladeshi, Irish, Muslim, and a lesbian. She decides to come out to her parents, but their reaction is not quite what she hoped for. They deal with it with silence, which leads to Nishat feeling pretty awful. On top of that, Nishat’s childhood friend Flávia joins at her school. When their business teacher announces a business competition, both Nishat and Flávia decide to do henna. While henna is a big part of Nishat’s culture, it’s not part of Flávia’s—who only really learned about it from a Bangladeshi wedding she attended. The problem is that Nishat can’t help her growing crush on Flávia, even though she’s angry at her for culturally appropriating. So, Nishat is left to navigate her growing feelings, Flávia’s cultural appropriation, along with her parents’ disapproval of her sexuality. </div>
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The main character, Nishat! I’ve obviously spent the most amount of time with her since she’s the protagonist, and I had a really fun time writing her. What I love about Nishat is that she both reminds me of who I was as a teen, and also doesn’t at the same time. In a lot of ways, Nishat is the opposite of who I was as a teen. She is very confident in who she is: she has this wonderful, unrelenting love for her culture, even when people are very disrespectful of her culture. She is also very confident in her sexuality, despite her parents’ disapproval. Nishat knows who she is, and that’s certainly nothing like I was when I was younger!</div>
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On the other hand though, Nishat is very much guided by her emotions. Her parents’ disapproval of her sexuality really affects her, so she lashes out with anger. Without necessarily thinking through her decisions. So she makes some bad choices, and does some things that are a little thoughtless. That is definitely reminiscent of me when I was Nishat’s age—someone who was led by emotions and didn’t always make the best choices. This combination of things in Nishat as a character made her really fun to write, and I hope it made for an interesting character to read as well. </div>
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I was originally inspired to write this book because of henna! I was on a summer holiday in Bangladesh where I was visiting my grandmother. I had all of these tubes of henna and I decided that I wanted to teach myself how to do henna. Unfortunately, I’m not a very good visual artist so I wasn’t particularly successful, but it gave me the idea of two teen girls with rivalling henna businesses. Then, I thought, wouldn’t it be even more interesting if they were also romantically interested in each other? </div>
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Feelings by Hayley Kiyoko! The reason for it probably goes without saying but…Nishat is definitely very driven by her feelings in the book!</div>
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This is a difficult question to answer! There aren’t really a lot of Bangladeshi, or Afro-Brazilian actors (and I don’t think I know any). If there was a movie, I hope we’ll be able to find some! </div>
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Somewhere really cozy, like cuddled up in bed or in front of a fireplace. For a drink, definitely some really strong chai. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE HENNA WARS?</h3>
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For more books with South Asian representation, you can’t go wrong with a novel by Sandhya Menon. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXQT5OB/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01LXQT5OB&linkId=b8cc4640e81989e39a1ae4f0a29a3273">When Dimple Met Rishi</a> or her upcoming <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1534416811/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1534416811&linkId=8d9c713f77926af263ccf9222f4b9837">10 Things I Hate About Pinky</a>. For more books featuring queer POC romances, you should definitely pick up <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062820257/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062820257&linkId=225387c09bd70d2fb495d80d8f1ed15c">Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/133850326X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=133850326X&linkId=98b100995ed78f1253df22b95d8ca41a">You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984829955/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1984829955&linkId=0ba88cd3feb273f7ddce6e9524460de9">Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett</a>. For books with a Muslim romance, I absolutely love <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1534442723/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1534442723&linkId=76bbef8334159d4ca8dc4420c9b85516">Love From A To Z by S.K. Ali</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316492353/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316492353&linkId=152ff9e427ec622cdad965dafc692f44">More Than Just A Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood</a>. </div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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Seeing it through! I think it’s easy to come up with an idea, even to start a book. But the difficult part is coming back to it day after day, writing draft after draft, revising, rewriting. These are the hard parts, after much of the shine of a brand-new idea has been lost. You need to be pretty dedicated to see a book through all the way from beginning to end. </div>
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I have another sapphic romcom coming from Page Street in 2021!</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDBRt0urQ9RI5_cZhIOl7Vs2PsZAciLydRnEQM9R1K1iZLILIb3u-TNJaOyO5khU0pfk-XeN4YN7IOARd2R1_LqoL-qDEBi-cLW9k9-Acq3VbzXjh328lyWQtJecEf0nnyp_OpWCZMP7e/s1600/author.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwDBRt0urQ9RI5_cZhIOl7Vs2PsZAciLydRnEQM9R1K1iZLILIb3u-TNJaOyO5khU0pfk-XeN4YN7IOARd2R1_LqoL-qDEBi-cLW9k9-Acq3VbzXjh328lyWQtJecEf0nnyp_OpWCZMP7e/s320/author.png" /></a>Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi/Irish writer and teacher. She lives in Dublin, Ireland. She has an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent, England and a BA in English and History from UCD, Ireland.</div>
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She is a contributor for Bookriot. Previously, she has published short fiction and poetry in various journals and anthologies.</div>
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All her work is aided by copious amounts of (kettle-made) tea and a whole lot of Hayley Kiyoko and Janelle Monáe.</div>
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She is represented by <a href="http://www.triadaus.com/contact.html">Uwe Stender</a> at <a href="http://www.triadaus.com/">TriadaUS</a>.<br />
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Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers<br />
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Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance</div>
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Mary Porter-Malcolm has prepared for high school in the one way she knows how: an extensive review of classic literature to help navigate the friendships, romantic liaisons, and overall drama she has come to expect from such an “esteemed” institution. Her love of literature even inspires her to imagine herself the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel. Not the sort who makes poor life choices and ends up dying of consumption while still in her teens, but the noble, virtuous, quick-witted type.</div>
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When some new friends seem in danger of falling for the same tricks employed since the days of Austen and Tolstoy, Mary swoops in to create the Scoundrel Survival Guide, using archetypes of literature’s debonair bad boys to signal red flags. But despite her best efforts, she soon finds herself unable to listen to her own good advice and falling for a supposed cad—the same one she warned her friends away from. Without a convenient rain-swept moor to flee to, Mary is forced to admit that real life doesn’t follow the same rules as fiction and that if she wants a happy ending, she’s going to have to write it herself.<br />
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Can you briefly describe BY THE BOOK and its characters?</h3>
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When bookish Mary Porter-Malcolm transfers to a crowded public high school her sophomore year, she stumbles into a new group of friends who rely on her extensive knowledge of classic literature to help them sidestep scoundrels and other social catastrophes – including the dangerously debonair Alex Ritter. </div>
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If I could get away with claiming “Mary’s family” as a single character, that would be my answer, because I love sibling (and parent) banter. Otherwise I’ll confess to a sneaking fondness for Lydia, the boldest and most outspoken of Mary’s new friends. She’s a lot like my high school BFF, who is still my best friend (mumble-mumble) years later. </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I had been working on a dark, sad, speculative story for several years when I finally accepted that I wasn’t ready to write that particular book. To console myself, I decided my next project would be something fun and funny and light, and rather than dealing with complex magic and twisted backstories, it would fall squarely into my wheelhouse: book-loving nerds. From there I just kept adding more of my favorite things, like a big, quirky family; a small town full of eccentric secondary characters; lots of food descriptions; and silly puns. </div>
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I vote tea and scones on a nice squishy sofa, since Mary (like so many lovers of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters) is a bit of an Anglophile, and this is a very cozy book. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish BY THE BOOK?</h3>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062447815/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062447815&linkId=4e99ba527c99ee9a894361b165ffaf66">ORDINARY GIRLS by Blair Thornburgh</a>; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525647104/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0525647104&linkId=3451beacdad511aafa855cd0cedccdef">WE ARE THE PERFECT GIRL by Ariel Kaplan</a>; <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250090687/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250090687&linkId=cae34df894c25d2507af36b76165d215">FIRST & THEN by Emma Mills</a>; and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1338335464/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1338335464&linkId=c3a3ad53ab4660329b19fa8daa71f1af">TECHNICALLY, YOU STARTED IT by Lana Wood Johnson</a>. All four of those are funny, romantic YA contemporaries that riff on classic lit. </div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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While contemplating this answer I checked Instagram, popped over to Goodreads, had a cup of jasmine tea, caught up with my Slack conversations, replied to a text, skimmed my Twitter notifications and dealt with an attention-starved cat. So I’m going to have to go with PROCRASTINATION! </div>
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I’m working on another funny and romantic YA contemporary with literary underpinnings, loosely tied to BY THE BOOK. Unlike Mary, the heroine of this one has no problem speaking her mind, so the tone is more salty than sweet.</div>
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Dark Skies <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/249604-dark-shores">(Dark Shores #2)</a></h3>
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by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7091823.Danielle_L_Jensen">Danielle L. Jensen</a></div>
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Release Date: May 5th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy</div>
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A RUNAWAY WITH A HIDDEN PAST</div>
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Lydia is a scholar, but books are her downfall when she meddles in the plots of the most powerful man in the Celendor Empire. Her life in danger, she flees west to the far side of the Endless Seas and finds herself entangled in a foreign war where her burgeoning powers are sought by both sides.</div>
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A COMMANDER IN DISGRACE</div>
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Killian is Marked by the God of War, but his gifts fail him when the realm under the dominion of the Corrupter invades Mudamora. Disgraced, he swears his sword to the kingdom’s only hope: the crown princess. But the choice sees him caught up in a web of political intrigue that will put his oath – and his heart – to the test.</div>
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A KINGDOM UNDER SIEGE</div>
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With Mudamora falling beneath the armies of the Corrupter, Lydia and Killian strike a bargain to save those they love most—but it is a bargain with unintended and disastrous consequences. Truths are revealed, birthrights claimed, and loyalties questioned—all while a menace deadlier and more far-reaching than they realize sweeps across the world.</div>
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Can you briefly describe the DARK SHORES series, its characters and what’s going to happen in DARK SKIES? </h3>
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The series takes place in a world divided by fantastical seas, each half of the world unaware of the other’s existence. When that secret is revealed, the Dark Shores of the West comes under siege from both supernatural and human forces that each seek to conquer for their own gain. In DARK SHORES, Teriana and Marcus are forced to lead the Empire’s armies across the seas in search of conquest neither of them wants, but in DARK SKIES, Lydia and Killian join together to fight back against the incursion of a dark god’s armies into their homeland. I make all four characters face impossible choices as they fight to protect those they love most, each novel raising the stakes and bringing readers closer to an epic collision of good and evil. Expect a huge world with a large cast, plus lots of action, political intrigue, and romance! </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why? </h3>
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As a writer, Marcus is my favorite, because he has a deep backstory that impacts the plot of the book in so many different ways. I also love his moral ambiguity, as it makes his actions less predictable. But teen me would’ve had a huge crush on Killian, would’ve been friends with Lydia (we are both bookish), and would’ve envied Teriana’s adaptability and ability to make friends with new people. All four protagonists are very different from one another, and I love seeing who readers connect with most! </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere? </h3>
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I’ve been working on this series since 2007, and it has been through so many rewrites and plot changes that very little of my original inspiration remains! I take a lot of inspiration from historical time periods that interest me, like Ancient Rome, but I also take a lot from television and movies. I really like cinematic action, so I try to replicate that feel when I’m writing. </div>
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If you could choose one song to describe your books in the series, which ones would it be? </h3>
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I’m the rare author who doesn’t listen to music when she writes! But I DO listen to music, primarily soundtrack music, when I’m brainstorming. For this series, I listen to Pirates of the Caribbean, ROME (HBO), Spartacus, and the Tudors soundtracks. But the one song that really ties to DARK SKIES for me is Requiem for Tower, especially for the battle scenes toward the end of the novel. </div>
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If your book was going to be made into a movie, who would play your characters? </h3>
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Young, attractive, interesting people who aren’t yet famous! I think new talent is the best for YA adaptations. </div>
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What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date? </h3>
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I think the best place to read my books is on a beach or next to a pool with a yummy frozen drink in hand! </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish DARK SKIES? </h3>
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I’d recommend <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250104432/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250104432&linkId=56f474eb8e719b7cfea3880f8c5d6935">THE WINNER’S KISS (Marie Rutkoski)</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250144221/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250144221&linkId=5100581ec1e3d16cc3d814e685b8b690">DAUGHTER OF THE PIRATE KING (Tricia Levenseller)</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KWG5RSC/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00KWG5RSC&linkId=76586254d4187c0167c5f6904b454dc5">AN EMBER IN THE ASHES (Sabaa Tahir)</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250112702/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250112702&linkId=e9565d6a7623e85d685a4f1c746b32d3">TO KILL A KINGDOM (Alexandra Christo)</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078LJPT32/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B078LJPT32&linkId=4219c491a9ef540dc32e32df47a50ead">SEAFIRE (Natalie C. Parker)</a>, or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765379295/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0765379295&linkId=982855f0441d4ec2b3a4513e9cc5df18">TRUTHWITCH (Susan Dennard)</a>. </div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book? </h3>
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For me, it’s not allowing my frustration and self-doubt to get in the way. I often have a really strong idea in my head for how I want a scene to go or how I want the reader to feel, and when I can’t translate the mental image to words on the page, I feel like a failure. And when I’m in that sort of negative headspace, I have a hard time writing anything at all. </div>
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What’s next for you? </h3>
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I am currently working on the third book in the Dark Shores series, which is titled <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51888648-gilded-serpent">GILDED SERPENT</a>! The first draft is already written and I’m working through the editorial comments. It has all four point of characters in it and more plot lines than I care to count, so it’s been a huge project for me! But I love it! I’m also working on the third book in my Bridge Kingdom series, so my head is full of the voices of many characters right now.</div>
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The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19025294.Jamie_Pacton">Jamie Pacton</a><br />
Publisher: Page Street Kids<br />
Release Date: May 5th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance</div>
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Kit Sweetly slays sexism, bad bosses, and bad luck to become a knight at a medieval-themed restaurant.</div>
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Working as a wench―i.e. waitress―at a cheesy medieval-themed restaurant in the Chicago suburbs, Kit Sweetly dreams of being a knight like her brother. She has the moves, is capable on a horse, and desperately needs the raise that comes with knighthood, so she can help her mom pay the mortgage and hold a spot at her dream college.</div>
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Company policy allows only guys to be knights. So when Kit takes her brother’s place and reveals her identity at the end of the show, she rockets into internet fame and a whole lot of trouble with the management. But the Girl Knight won’t go down without a fight. As other wenches join her quest, a protest forms. In a joust before Castle executives, they’ll prove that gender restrictions should stay medieval―if they don’t get fired first.</div>
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Can you briefly describe THE LIFE AND (MEDIEVAL) TIMES OF KIT SWEETLY and its characters?</h3>
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THE LIFE AND (MEDIEVAL) TIMES OF KIT SWEETLY is about 17-year-old Kit, a serving wench at the Castle, a medieval-themed restaurant. Kit desperately wants to be a knight like her older brother Chris, but only cis dudes can be knights according to company policy. One shift, Kit rides out in Chris’ place. Her triumph—and the moment she reveals “I AM NO MAN!”— is caught on video, and Kit goes viral. She uses her newfound fame to launch a campaign to change things at the Castle. She’s joined by a group of friends—fierce folks across the gender spectrum— and they band together to over throw the medieval notion that only cis guys can be knights. There’s also a sweet friends-to-lovers story between Kit and her bff Jett; and, a whole lot of economic ups and downs as Kit navigates the financial instability her family faces. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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I absolutely love Kit, and I put so many of my secret thoughts, strivings, wishes, and jokes into her. I kind of think all authors do that to some degree with their characters, but seventeen-year-old Kit and seventeen-year-old Jamie are very similar. That said, I also adore Jett, her bff and love interest; and, I very much want to be friends with her other bff, Layla. And, I also really like her brother, Chris. He’s the brother I wish I had. </div>
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Overall, my goal in KIT was to write lots of characters that readers loved as much as I did, so they could see some of their own favorite people in my characters. </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I wrote a <a href="https://twitter.com/JamiePacton/status/1187538755843956736">whole Twitter thread on this</a>, but the short story is that a few months after the terrible results of the 2016 election, I took my youngest son to Medieval Times in Chicago. We’d talked a lot during the election cycle about feminism and a female president; and, although I didn’t go into the night of medieval fun and pageantry thinking I’d emerge with a book, as I watched the male knights ride and the female wenches serve us food (and as I talked with them), it occurred to me that we should have knights of all genders. And thus Kit’s quest was born. </div>
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And, for more general thoughts on inspiration (not sure if you just meant for KIT or otherwise), <a href="https://www.jamiepacton.com/extras/faq">this is from my website</a>.</div>
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I definitely pull deeply from my own life and past experiences, but I’m also currently writing a fantasy novel randomly inspired by a quirky boutique name in a tiny town near where I live. I’ve also pulled stories from historical tidbits I found while researching other books; from questions that pop into my mind; and, from trying to figure out what a certain type of character would do in a certain situation. I also get ideas from smashing two or more book/movie/tv comps together and challenging myself to think about what the resulting story might look like. Oh! And sometimes I scroll through MSWL threads on twitter to see what agents and editors are asking for and that can be inspiring in surprising ways. </div>
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Uhm….I am really terrible with questions like this because I can never pick one song! </div>
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I listened to a lot of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMMZQJ1H6E&list=PLw8e6JDSTVJY1ufECPCvZA7ZC7_wVbtP-&index=1">Santigold</a> while writing KIT, and Disparate Youth is the song I always hear in my head when I think of Kit and her friends out there jousting. </div>
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That said, any of the Queen songs from A Knight’s Tale and possibly the Beatles “I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends” would also work. And I have like ten others I really want to mention here…. J </div>
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Kit: Sophia Lillis</div>
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What drink and place do you think will go with your book to have a perfect book date?</h3>
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Take my book to the Ren Faire or a medieval-themed restaurant for the perfect book date! You can feast on chicken legs and drink out of fancy goblets while watching the jousts.<br />
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If that’s not available, then I recommend staying in, watching A Knight’s Tale, and snacking on anything that you can use sword fight with should the need arise (carrot sticks, chicken legs, pretzel rods, etc.). </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish THE LIFE AND (MEDIEVAL) TIMES OF KIT SWEETLY?</h3>
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Absolutely! I think of Jen De Luca’s adult romance <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/198480538X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=198480538X&linkId=ddc04600385b5f9bcc7ecd197bbb2c5d">WELL MET</a> as the older sister of KIT. It’s set in a Ren Faire, full of great Shakespeare jokes, and absolutely a delight. If you’re looking for a YA feminist rom-com with great banter, incredibly loveable characters, and a unique setting, I highly recommend Rachel Lynn Solomon’s forthcoming book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Z41XT88/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07Z41XT88&linkId=9566900f9cbc787c04c33d17a9a7515b">TODAY, TONIGHT, TOMORROW</a>. It’s a sheer joy of a story and I fell totally in love with her characters. </div>
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I love almost every part of the writing process, but slogging through a first draft is the hardest part for me. I have a surplus of ideas; I love planning out a story and having the pieces of it slot into place; and, revisions are so much fun. But, that first pass is an uphill grind because there’s a 70,000 word blank space between what I imagine the book can be and actually getting it on the page. I tend to draft very quickly and messily, just so I can get the story down and then I go back and make it better. </div>
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My next book with Page Street is called <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44779664-lucky-girl">LUCKY GIRL</a> and it’ll come out in 2021. Like KIT, LUCKY GIRL is funny YA contemporary that also takes a look at some hard stuff. It’s about 17-year-old Fortuna Jane Belleweather, a normal girl in a small Wisconsin town who bought a lotto ticket and won 58 million dollars. The only problem is that Jane was a minor when she purchased the ticket, which means if she tries to cash it, she’ll lose the money and be guilty of a misdemeanour. Jane desperately needs to find someone to cash the ticket for her, but she can’t give it to her hoarder mother; her hippie grandmother wants nothing to do with it; and, that leaves Jane’s 18-year-old ex-boyfriend Holden, who’s she’s still not over. Schemes, heists, and betrayals occur as Jane navigates her lucky break and tries to get over her broken heart. Luckily, like Kit, she’s got a wonderful best friend by her side to help her through whatever life throws at her. </div>
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Beyond that, I’m also drafting a YA fantasy and working on some MG projects. Because I’m always juggling a few books at once. :)<br />
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Jamie Pacton writes all sorts of books: dark, feminist YA fantasy; contemporary YA stories with a funny + geeky bent; funny MG adventure-fantasy; and, even the occasional adult rom-com. She was a Pitch Wars mentee in 2015 and she mentored YA in 2016, 2017, and 2018. She grew up minutes away from the National Storytelling Center in the mountains of East Tennessee; she’s the oldest of ten kids; and, she currently lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, their two kids, and a dog named Lego. The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly (forthcoming May 5, 2020) is her Young Adult debut.</div>
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The Colossus of Roads</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15589665.Christina_Uss">Christina Uss</a><br />
Publisher: Margaret Ferguson Books<br />
Release Date: May 5th 2020</div>
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Genre: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fiction</div>
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<b>Eleven-year-old Rick Rusek is determined to improve the traffic conditions in Los Angeles-- his parent's failing delivery catering service, Smotch, depends on it.</b></div>
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"Traffic is a puzzle with one correct solution. And I've got to solve it!"</div>
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Rick has been studying maps and traffic patterns for years, and devises solutions to improve Los Angeles' notoriously terrible traffic that he calls his Snarl Solutions. He has big ideas, but not enough resources-- until his artistic friend, Mila brings him to a Girl Scout meeting.</div>
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Every week at Miss Diamond's art studio, the scouts paint recycled traffic signs with their own designs. The signs will be hung all over Los Angeles to beautify the city with art. But Rick, The Colossus of Roads, has ulterior motives . . . He will restore the signs to their original glory and find a way to install them strategically to rectify the traffic. Anything can be hung with duct tape!</div>
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But of course, it's not that easy. SPLAT (Stop Poor LA Traffic), BLAM (Bike-Loving Amazing Mamas), and the TCD (Traffic Calming Division) have their own methods of curing the city's dilemma and will undermine Rick's efforts however they can.</div>
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Will Rick be able to clear the notorious traffic problem on Sepulveda Pass in time for his parents to deliver Polish food to the movie studio and land the catering contract they need to keep their company afloat?</div>
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Written by Christina Uss, the acclaimed author of The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle, which was selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List and was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the year.</div>
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This is the story of a boy and his talking stomach who decide to fix all the worst traffic problems in Los Angeles in order to save the family business.</div>
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The main character, Rick Rusek, has an unusual talent: he can see how to make traffic move smoothly and perfectly. (He also has an unusual habit of talking to his carsick stomach and vividly imagining his stomach talks back.) Too bad no one else seems to find Rick’s traffic talent interesting or worthwhile, because constant traffic jams look like they might ruin his family’s food catering business.</div>
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Luckily, his quiet and artistic neighbour Mila Herrera belongs to a Girl Scout Troop who is doing a city-wide street art project using old road signs, and Rick devises a plan to use the road signs to move 300,000 cars out of the way of his family’s future. He’ll need Mila’s help, plus that of her grandmother Abuelita, the best driver in L.A.</div>
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If Rick can succeed, maybe everyone will see that he’s not some strange carsick kid. He’s one of the seven wonders of Los Angeles. He’s the Colossus of Roads.</div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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I love Rick to pieces because he believes in himself. Despite hitting huge setbacks, he keeps finding ways to move forward with his peculiar plans. I equally love his wobbly but brave stomach, who is always there with words of encouragement and impulsive advice, especially about cheeseburgers and doughnuts.</div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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The first nugget of an idea came from living with my husband in Los Angeles, where he was born and raised. Whenever we drove together and encountered traffic snarls, he’d read the traffic like an animal tracker, explaining what caused the slow-down, why, and when it would clear up. It was creepy how he was always right! When I asked how he did it, he said, “When you’ve been in traffic your whole life, you just get a sense for these things.” I thought: what if there were a kid born with a talent for reading traffic? How would that play out for him? Would anyone care? And what if that kid got a chance to actually use his talent to fix a major traffic jam, secretly and spectacularly?</div>
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Another inspiration for writing COLOSSUS came from my son. I told him I was proud of him for accomplishing a task he found difficult and didn’t enjoy, and he said, “I wish you were proud of me for the things I actually like doing.” That really struck me. I’m sure kids everywhere wish their families appreciated when they used their innate talents to do things they find fun. That helped me envision Rick’s family dynamic, because at the beginning of the book, his parents don’t see the value in his traffic talent.</div>
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I do hope the COLOSSUS story gives readers faith that they’ll find places to use their talents, whatever they are, to make a positive difference in the world.</div>
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I’ve got to break the rules and pick two: First, “This Is Me” from the movie soundtrack to The Greatest Showman for all the characters in my book who want to stand up and be recognized for the things they can do well. Second, “Take It to the Limit” by the Eagles for the line “Put me on a highway, and show me a sign, and take it to the limit one more time,” to represent Rick not giving up on his idea of using road signs to protect the good things in his life.</div>
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We’d have to do a casting call for Rick and find a nice Polish boy who looks like my dad did when he was young, and for Mila we’d need to find a girl so shy she hardly want to get in front of the cameras. I want Jack Black to play Rick’s stomach’s voice. I’d like Rita Moreno to play Abuelita, but she’d have to eat a TON of cake to get ready for the role.</div>
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The perfect place to go read my book would be at In-N-Out Burger, especially in southern California. You can order any flavour milkshake you want, but you have to order a cheeseburger to go with it.</div>
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Another book about a California character who takes on a task most kids wouldn’t dream of is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524717975/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1524717975&linkId=03d1a30f17d203e6fcc8744d203a1a5f">THE HOUSE THAT LOU BUILT by Mae Respicio</a>. And the funny <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110199648X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=110199648X&linkId=7f49c4b55975561539a7d1b0c8a01487">ALL FOUR STARS series by Tara Dairman</a> has a main character with a passion and special talent that her family doesn’t understand one bit.</div>
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I have another book coming out next year, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43605211-erik-vs-everything">ERIK VS. EVERYTHING</a>, about a boy whose motto is “Avoid Stuff” while his family wants him to bring out his inner Viking. I’m also hard at work on some more tremendously odd middle-grade stories with happy endings–stay tuned!<br />
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War and Speech</h3>
by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3351653.Don_Zolidis">Don Zolidis</a><br />
Publisher: Little Brown<br />
Release Date: May 5th 2020</div>
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Genre: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction</div>
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Not everyone can be a winner...</div>
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Sydney Williams knows this better than anyone. After her white-collar- criminal dad is sent to prison, Sydney fails almost all of her classes and moves into a dingy apartment with her mom, who can barely support them with her minimum-wage job at the mall. </div>
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A new school promises a fresh start. Except Eaganville isn’t exactly like other high schools. It's ruled with an iron fist by a speech team that embodies the most extreme winner-takes-all philosophy.</div>
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Sydney is befriended by a group of fellow misfits, each of whom has been personally victimized by the speech team. It turns out Sydney is the perfect plant to take down the speech team from within. </div>
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With the help of her co-conspirators, Sydney throws herself into making Nationals in speech, where she will be poised to topple the corrupt regime. But what happens when Sydney realizes she actually has a shot at . . . winning? Sydney lost everything because of her dad’s obsession with being on top. Winning at speech might just be her ticket out of a life of loserdom. Can she really walk away from that?<br />
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WAR AND SPEECH is the story of Sydney, who decides to join the top-rated Speech and Debate team in the country in order to destroy it from the inside out. </div>
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Sydney is funny, brutally honest, and has a mouth that gets her in a lot of trouble. She has a strong bullshit detector and a keen sense of fairness. Her father is in prison for tax evasion, and her life has cratered big time – she now lives in a tiny apartment with her mom and her new boyfriend, and just about everything she counted on has disappeared. She can be a bit bitter. </div>
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Who would you say is your favourite character from the story and why?</h3>
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Lakshmi is probably my favorite character in the book. She’s a basketball star, and in any other school would be popular. Unfortunately, she attends a school for the arts where no one cares about sports, and her teammates recite spoken word poetry during the games. </div>
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Lakshmi is fierce and strong and values her time. She doesn’t have time for nonsense and moves through the world like she owns the place. Sydney says she wants to be Lakshmi when she grows up. Me too. </div>
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How did the story occur to you? Did you find inspiration anywhere?</h3>
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I wanted to write a book about Speech and Debate, since it’s a really fun activity that hasn’t been seen a lot in YA books. I also wanted to do a plucky underdog story where the underdog’s goal is destruction, rather than winning. </div>
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I actually took a lot of inspiration from the Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, and Eight movies. It’s a motley group of conspirators trying to do the impossible and managing to pull it off. </div>
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This question is so hard! When I’m writing, I usually try to only listen to music that seems like it’s in my character’s voice. And then I listen to that artist continuously for the writing process. For this book, I listened to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7sTHoeH0eA&list=PLTmOW58AHKnHccqito-0K3dHTi1Sfspl5&index=1">Sharon Van Etten</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nr1nNC3ds&list=PL2RBbrgcQOX4Rqf6RpX-2MIfU0xKiAkQ_&index=1">Courtney Barnett</a>. I think Courtney really gets at Sydney’s irascible, raw voice. Her song “Help Your Self” is a great encapsulation of Sydney’s personal philosophy. </div>
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Is it cliché to say Beanie Feldstein? I think Beanie Feldstein would make a brilliant Sydney. She’s smart, she’s funny, and she’s ready to do something outrageous. I might also cast Tom Holland (although he’s maybe a little too good-looking) as Elijah, who becomes Sydney’s love interest. </div>
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I think, ultimately, this is a really fun caper-style book. So it would go really well with some carefully plotted crimes and/or shenanigans. I’m gonna go with a smoothie and light crime. </div>
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Can you recommend your readers any other books in case they are left hungry for more once they finish WAR AND SPEECH?</h3>
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My first novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1368009611/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1368009611&linkId=6fcfe36c6fa556e1bb0130be351674bf">THE SEVEN TORMENTS OF AMY AND CRAIG (A LOVE STORY)</a> is a bit more of a rom-com than a caper, but it’s also hilarious and heart-wrenching. Another kindred writing soul would be Katie Henry, who writes viciously funny and thoughtful books. Check out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062698907/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062698907&linkId=faf67edaea0ada5edfa727a66fea5bbc">LET’S CALL IT A DOOMSDAY</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062698885/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theunoaddboof-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062698885&linkId=022cb23b2fd81569149f75c9b56a2ff0">HERETICS ANONYMOUS</a>. </div>
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What would you say is the most difficult part of writing a book?</h3>
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Coming up with the spine of the story is always the most challenging part for me. I’m naturally a playwright, so writing dialogue is always breezy and fun. But finding and honing the right skeleton to hang the story on is a struggle. </div>
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What’s next for you?</h3>
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I just finished a new novel, I HEARD YOU WERE DEAD, which is about a boy who’s recovered from leukemia. He returns to his old high school and manages to fall in love with a girl and her brother.</div>
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