How I Write: A Round Robin Blog Tour
1) What am I working on? These days I’m writing the first draft of a young adult novel set on a study tour in Greece and inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion. I'm about one and a half chapters away from the finish line...an exciting place to be. 2) How does my work differ from others of its genre? I’ve written three young adult novels, all of them contemporary retellings of classic literature; I’ve retold Jane Eyre ( Jane ), Wuthering Heights ( Catherine ), and A Room With a View (the forthcoming Love, Lucy ). Literary retellings have become huge in the Young Adult world lately--so huge, Epic Reads invented a chart to help a reader make sense of this boom. My retellings fall into the category of contemporary realism; I transplant characters like Jane Eyre, Heathcliff, and Lucy Honeychurch into the present, exploring how they might remain themselves and how their story would be changed--by ...