Writing Process Blog Tour: Anne Blankman Guest Post
Today I have a guest post from the lovely Anne Blankman! On Monday I tagged her in a blog tour series to answer four questions about her writing process. Onward!
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One of my favorite people, YA author Sara Raasch, whose emails are so ridiculously funny that that they make me laugh out loud, asked me to join in My Writing Process Blog Tour.
1. What am I working on?
My third book—it’s a YA romantic historical thriller like my first two, but it has new characters and a different setting. I’m not allowed to say much yet, but I’m loving immersing myself in another time period!
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?
Hmm. I usually try not to compare books since they each bring out their own writer’s individual voice! But I do think my main character in PRISONER OF NIGHT AND FOG and its sequel is an unusual protagonist. When the story opens, she’s a Nazi and tries to follow the rules laid out for her by old family friend “Uncle Dolf” (aka Adolf Hitler). It’s a perspective I haven’t really seen in YA literature before.
3. Why do I write what I do?
Because I can’t imagine writing anything else.
4. How does your writing process work?
My process is probably quite different from other authors—the majority of my characters in PRISONER OF NIGHT AND FOG and its sequel were real people, so I did a ton of research before I wrote a single word. I like to read as much as I can on a certain time period, put together my notes, and then start assembling my plot. I never know what historical detail will inspire me. When I started working on PRISONER’s sequel, I stumbled across a real-life unsolved murder that fired up my imagination and took the story in a different direction.
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Be sure to check out Anne’s book, PRISONER OF NIGHT AND FOG, out April 22!
