7/7/2023 0 Comments You're Invited by Jen Malone![]() ![]() ![]() And since either I or Alyson Heller, my colleague at Aladdin, have edited earlier books by each of the authors, we knew they could pull it off.”Īnd they did, with Malone acting as the self-described “project manager” (she is actually given credit as editor on the novel’s title page). I was so impressed by how very organized the authors were, and by their proposal and sample chapters. “We’ve never done a collaborative project like this for middle grade. “I thought it was a brilliant idea,” Cloud recalled. ![]() to Aladdin editor Amy Cloud in September 2015. Once the story arc and the characters’ storylines were mapped out, Malone and Nall pitched Best. Then each of us claimed one character from those ideas and went off on our own to write.” And then the seven of us got together on Google Hangout and brainstormed a plot and what kinds of characters might end up together at a middle-school dance. “I’d just watched Love Actually for the 57 millionth time, and I began thinking about a novel with intersecting stories and how we might make that work. “I’m very stubborn, and knew we had to find a way to write a book together,” she recalled. Though most of the agents of the authors Malone had lined up were not too keen on the anthology idea, she was determined to collaborate with her writing friends, and persevered. ![]()
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