Larissa: I’m glad it felt sterile, because that is Jen’s experience of her time, and we feel it through her point of view. In her time, there are no real animals and hardly anything left of the natural world? Why? Did you have a backstory for how Earth became so, to me, sterile? But it had some lessons in common with the craft books, such as persevering to finish a manuscript, and the ins and outs of publishing and promotion.ĭabney: Jenn/Ginn, the heroine of your book, is from our future–is it the beginning of the 22nd century?–and lives in modern Iceland. The novel is so much more personal and was initially hard for me to share. I blogged for 10 years and built a following of “fans” that I consider more like friends. Though Beautiful Wreck is my first novel, I have written two books about the craft of knitting and I write essays about craft for magazines or I self-publish them on my site. Larissa: Thank you so much for your kind words about my book and for interviewing me. Your prose and your plot are wonderfully confident and strong. She graciously said yes.ĭabney: Beautiful Wreck is your debut novel. So, there was nothing for it but to ask Larissa Brown if she’d answer some questions for me. And, once I read it, I couldn’t stop wondering about it. (You can read Melanie’s DIK review here.) I loved this book. (That column is here.) The first one I chose was Melanie’s: Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown. One of my goals for 2015 is to read all the romances my colleagues here at AAR picked as their choice for Best of 2014.
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