I met author/blogger Janet Fox in person at the Winter SCBWI conference. We hung out, talk about her blog, Through the Wardrobe, and her debut novel, Faithful. She also was kind enough to give me a vlog with a Writing Tip of the Day.
Janet is a member of the class of 2K10. I asked her to give me a summary of the book and what inspired her to write it.
In 1904 Margaret Bennet has it all – money, position, and an elegant family home in Newport, Rhode Island. But just as she is to enter society, her mother ruins everything, first with public displays, and finally by disappearing. Maggie’s confusion and loss are compounded when her father drags her to Yellowstone National Park, where he informs her that they will remain.
At first, Maggie’s only desire is to return to Newport. But the mystical beauty of the Yellowstone landscape, and the presence of young Tom Rowland, a boy unlike the others she has known, conspire to change Maggie from a spoiled girl willing to be constrained by society to a free-thinking and brave young woman living in a romantic landscape at the threshold of a new century.
Publisher: Speak/Penguin Group, May 13, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-14-241413-2
I was inspired to write FAITHFUL after my mother's untimely death, when I found solace in the beauty of Yellowstone.
Janet S. Fox
5602 Polo Road
College Station TX 77845
979-695-0098
http://www.janetsfox.com
my blog "Through The Wardrobe":
http://www.kidswriterjfox.blogspot.com
Author of Faithful (Speak/Penguin Group, May, 2010), a YA novel of romance and mystery set in the Gilded Age, and Get Organized Without Losing It (Free Spirit Publishing, 2006) for middle grades.
Member of the Class of 2k10: www.classof2k10.com
Tina - Thanks so much for the shout-out! I had such a nice time with you in New York. It seems like yesterday!
Hugs - j
Posted by: Janet Fox | August 27, 2010 at 06:45 PM