7/5/2023 0 Comments Good Girls by Laura RubyThe article highlights Laura’s Good Girls (HarperCollins, 2006) as well as Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr (Little Brown, 2007)( author interview), Angel’s Choice by Laura Baratz-Logsted (Simon & Schuster, 2006), Pop! by Aury Wallington (Razorbill, 2006), and She’s Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders (Seal, 2006). Then surf over to “Heirs to Judy Blume” by Colleen Mondor at Bookslut in Training. It just seemed to make sense.” Read a Cynsations interview with Laura. So, to explore the weird, complex world of stepfamilies, I chose to use an adult point-of-view. “On the other hand, my short stories about stepmoms demanded I speak to adults, because, frankly, kids could not care less about the stresses their divorced parents feel because they are feeling their own terrible stresses (and I know this because I was one of those kids!). The story demanded that I tell it for older teen girls. For example, I could have written Good Girls (HarperCollins, 2006) as an adult novel with a narrator looking back on her high school experiences, but I had no interest in speaking directly to adults about this subject. Laura says: “…each story dictates the age group for which it’s written. Congratulations to acclaimed middle grade-YA author Laura Ruby on the release of her first novel for adults, I’m Not Julia Roberts (Warner, 2007)!
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