Braless in Wonderland by Debbie Reed Fischer

When did you find out about your first sale? What happened? How did you celebrate? (Readers, if they choose, can play along.) Gil Goodson, son of a disgraced ex-employee of the sponsoring company, feels that winning the Games is his chance not only to win the prize, but to find a new life for his family. What separates the players from the amazing grand prize are puzzles, brainteasers, and physical stunts. The Gollywhopper Games of the title is a once-in-a-lifetime event that starts with 25,000 contestants and narrows to one winner.

JF: I’m like Marissa in that I never knew how to categorize The Gollywhopper Games (Greenwillow, 2008)…until my publisher had associated it with the word, “interactive.” So I’ll stick with that and add two words of my own: contemporary interactive adventure. “YA novel” is ever so much easier to say than “coming of age-historical-romantic-fantasy.” MD: I’m never sure how to categorize Bewitching Season (Henry Holt, 2008), so I stick to just calling it a YA novel…but it’s set in 1837 London and features a pair of twin sisters making their debuts in society (which means they were entering the aristocratic marriage market) who end up rescuing their kidnapped governess and the soon-to-be Queen Victoria from an evil plot to control the British throne. Louis, but with a whole new career ahead of me.”Ĭongratulations on your debut novels! Could you tell us about your books? Fast forward past lots of ads, three works-for-hire, and a guidebook to St. It turns out I didn’t hate writing as much as I thought I did.

It turns out that advertising is an amazing background for writing fiction. “Fourteen minutes after I’d first perched on that desk, I hopped off with a new grand plan. Then pausing again and again, knowing she really doesn’t love writing. Picture her mind racing through the list of colleges at the University of Missouri, but pausing every time she gets to their distinguished School of Journalism. Jody Feldman on Jody Feldman: “Imagine an 18-year-old freshman, sitting on a built-in desk, staring out her dorm window, realizing she can’t stand her major (psychology) and stressing over what she’s going to do for the rest of her life. I live in Massachusetts with my family, an opinionated pet rabbit, and a collection of books that has strained the joists supporting the second floor of my house. Marissa Doyle on Marissa Doyle: “I graduated from Bryn Mawr College with the intention of being an archaeologist, but somehow that never happened…but I think I’ve always known that someday I would end up as a writer. Visit the class at MySpace, Facebook, and Jacketflap! The Class of 2k8 is the home of a group of middle grade and young adult authors, all with their debut novels being published in 2008.

Braless in Wonderland by Debbie Reed Fischer