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Ashley Atkins
BIC
Butt in Chair.
That is all. Oh, and maybe don't try to please everyone. Write what you would like to read.
Butt in Chair.
That is all. Oh, and maybe don't try to please everyone. Write what you would like to read.
Ashley Atkins
My daughters got into a physical altercation over who would be the first to read Sarah Dessen's brand new book after I bought a single copy to take on our beach vacation. At the time (2009) I was writing fiction and non-fiction for adults, but a little light went off when they were kicking and clawing (not really! ha ha) and I decided to write a contemporary realistic YA novel.
I began making notes and drew upon a tragic event that happened when I was in college in 1989. I worked very hard to handle it respectfully in my book, and to avoid spoilers I won't go into detail at this time.
At some point, TOUGH MAUVE also became a book about Lulu and her father.
I wrote a few sections and then put it away. With a full-time job and house full of kids I just didn't have it in me at the time to write another novel. (My first is still unpublished.)
Last year I was able to keep my butt in a chair over enough evenings and weekends to finish. But for the sake of fun, I set TOUGH MAUVE in 2009-2010, in the same little beach town where I was first inspired.
I began making notes and drew upon a tragic event that happened when I was in college in 1989. I worked very hard to handle it respectfully in my book, and to avoid spoilers I won't go into detail at this time.
At some point, TOUGH MAUVE also became a book about Lulu and her father.
I wrote a few sections and then put it away. With a full-time job and house full of kids I just didn't have it in me at the time to write another novel. (My first is still unpublished.)
Last year I was able to keep my butt in a chair over enough evenings and weekends to finish. But for the sake of fun, I set TOUGH MAUVE in 2009-2010, in the same little beach town where I was first inspired.
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