Interview with Jessica Cluess, author of A SHADOW BRIGHT AND BURNING

I've been pining for this book ever since I first heard it announced, and I was lucky enough to win an advance copy. It definitely lived up to all the hype! A Shadow Bright and Burning is like a Lovecraftian Harry Potter, with some shades of a not-as-graphic version of Penny Dreadful (it is YA, after all). It's dark and beautiful, with characters who will haunt your thoughts long after you set the book down.

Jessica Cluess was a year ahead of me in the Clarion Workshop; she attended in 2013 an...