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Ann Fraistat

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Young Adult, Horror, Thriller

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Ann Fraistat is an author, playwright, and narrative designer. Her debut novel, What We Harvest, is a 2022 Bram Stoker finalist, an ABA Indies Introduce and Kids' Indie Next Pick, and a finalist for the Barnes & Noble YA 2022 Book Awards. A Place for Vanishing, her second book, is an instant USA Today bestseller. Her co-author credits include plays such as Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending, and alternate reality games sponsored by the National Science Foundation. She lives in Maryland.

For more, find her at annfraistat.com, or connect on Twitter or Instagram @annfrai ...more

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Was there a specific place or event that inspired you to write this novel? Or was it just spur of the moment?

Ann Fraistat Hi, Alexandra! No one place or event. (I actually drafted this book about blight in summer 2019--before COVID, freakily enough.) The specific seed of …moreHi, Alexandra! No one place or event. (I actually drafted this book about blight in summer 2019--before COVID, freakily enough.) The specific seed of What We Harvest came from a dream about a field of rainbow-hued wheat. I sat down to explore that image as a freewriting exercise, which started as a paragraph and eventually snowballed into an entire book. At the time, I’d recently moved far from Maryland, where I was born and raised. That infused the book with a wistful longing for home, while my new surroundings in Texas provided the atmospheric inspiration of open space and sparseness. It flowed very organically--more organically than anything else I'd ever written--because I think it was the story I needed at the time. The horror. The beauty. The endless grit of its characters, and the hope that can be found in that perseverance. Thank you for asking! <3(less)

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Average rating: 3.86 · 3,727 ratings · 916 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	What We Harvest 3.81 avg rating — 2,228 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place for Vanishing 3.95 avg rating — 1,498 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romeo & Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending by Shawn Fraistat, Ann Fraistat (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If rainbows could rot then so could stars.”
― Ann Fraistat, What We Harvest

tags: corruption, rainbows, rot, stars

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“Actually, I knew I would.”
― Ann Fraistat, What We Harvest

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Ann’s Quotes

“I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: writing, writing-life, writing-philosophy, writing-process, writing-quotes

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“Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you’re not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.”
― Jordan Peele

tags: horror, horror-genre, horror-movies, horror-writer, writing

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

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“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

tags: writing

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“I’m a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you’re accusing them of not thinking. But when you tell a story, and you draw them in through allowing them to see through the eyes of a different person, and when you can affect their feelings and emotions — whether it's making them laugh, or making them scared, or making them scream, or making them cheer — then you have them on a starting point, already, to think about why they had those visceral reactions.”
― Jordan Peele