Tea Party with Tara Gilboy (author of Unwritten)

Oh boy, oh boy, I hope we’re not late to send the invitations to you people, but thank you for coming to our tea party. Today, we have a special guest, drum rolls please (drum rolls and trumpets play in background). Ehem. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome TARA GILBOY!! Tara is the author of Unwritten, one of my favorite middle-grade books so far and also the one that made me spill my tea. If anyone is interested with my thoughts, you can always check it here. Now, let’s begin the tea party, please be seated.

Alright, so first we have Unwritten:

Man, I’m always amaze with that beautiful cover, don’t you think so? Okay, here we have a twelve-year-old Gracie Freeman who is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she’s never read. When she was a baby, her parents learned that she was supposed to die in the story, and with the help of a magic book, took her out of the story, and into the outside world, where she could be safe.

But Gracie longs to know what the story says about her. Despite her mother’s warnings, Gracie seeks out the story’s author, setting in motion a chain of events that draws herself, her mother, and other former storybook characters back into the forgotten tale. Inside the story, Gracie struggles to navigate the blurred boundary between who she really is and the surprising things the author wrote about her. As the story moves toward its deadly climax, Gracie realizes she’ll have to face a dark truth and figure out her own fairy tale ending.

Oh wow, that was intense. So, now we have Tara here with us and she would be so happy to answer the questions that I’m sure you guys are wondering.