Was it your intention to retell a story that wasn't well known? How did you decide to write a re-telling of The Wild Swans ? Until I learned of your book I was unfamiliar with the fairytale. However, they go together well because it's another sci-fi take on a fairytale-this time Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans." In fact, not even in the same imagined universe.
Does that mean it's not a sequel? Not a sequel at all. Spinning Starlight is being described as a "companion book" to Stitching Snow. Before that, it never occurred to me to try a fairytale retelling. I heard that once, and an image popped into my head. There's a line in the Florence + The Machine song "Blinding" about Snow White stitching up a circuit board. It was kind of a twist of fate that Stitching Snow came out at all. Have you always been drawn to fairytales?Īctually. Thank you for visiting us here at PubCrawl today! I’m excited to learn more about your books, since they interweave fairytale and science fiction so seamlessly. there’s a giveaway! More on that at the end. Lewis here today to talk about fairytale retellings, the concept of a “companion book,” and so much more! (AND. Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for survival in this companion to Stitching Snow.
With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers' survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back? But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.ĭesperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. So when a group of men show up at her house uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's hard to escape it. Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight.
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