Marisa
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Michelle Gable:
Michelle, Just wanted to say how excited I am to read THE SUMMER I MET JACK. I literally screamed out loud with joy when I got the ARC. Love that you wrote it and love the amount of energy and research. cant wait to dive in! Can you tell me if you had to get permission from the Kennedys to write this?? xoxox I'm an excited reader
Michelle Gable
Hi Marisa! So glad you're excited for the new book. To answer your question, it would be very unusual to seek "permission" from a public figure/family/person/business for a novel. Generally the only permissions required involve copyrighted song lyrics or quotes from books/poems/etc., that sort of thing. While this novel is based on facts (and GOBS of research), there are certainly gaps (especially in Alicia's storyline/history) I filled in with my imagination. All of my books are based on real people and events, and I try to make them as accurate and realistic as possible but, in the end, I do write fiction! Not that permission would be required for non-fiction, either. Plenty of biographies and memoirs have been written about the Kennedys that I'm sure they would not approve (e.g. memoirs from JFK's various mistresses).
Hope you love the read!
Hope you love the read!
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Michelle Gable:
You said in your own review of The Book of Summer in 2017 that "if novels are children, this is my favorite book kid by far." I am curious if that is still true? I have recently read two of your books (The Summer I Met Jack and The Book of Summer) and I am curious if that statement is still true? I really enjoyed both books, but I certainly did fall in love with Cissy, Ruby, and Bess in the Book of Summer.
Michelle Martini-brown
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Michelle Gable:
It seemed that while Marthe's apartment in present day was slowly being emptied out, that in the journals, at the same time, the apartment was being filled up by Marthe at the same pace so we reached a full, locked apartment at the same time that we reached an emptied one. Was that an intentional plot device during the writing process or did it just end up that way when you were organizing the two stories?
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