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Please join me in welcoming back to the blog my good friend and classmate at VCFA, Lyn Miller-Lachmann. It’s my pleasure to help her celebrate today’s launch of her young adult historical fiction book, Surviving Santiago, published by Running Press Kids/Perseus Books. (Click on the publisher to read a synopsis of this book.)
Lyn is represented by Ellen Geiger at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Her publicist just happens to be another classmate of ours: Val Howlett.
El Space: Happy Launch Day, Lyn! When you wrote Gringolandia (Curbstone Press, 2009), did you envision a sequel to follow? Why or why not?
Lyn: I didn’t expect to write a companion or sequel. Technically, this is a companion rather than a sequel because it has a different protagonist, one who was a major secondary character in the previous book. When I started Gringolandia as a contemporary novel back in…
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Thanks for the reblog, Charles!
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Thank you for the reblog, Charles! I’m coming to see that there isn’t as much difference as one would think between historical fiction and speculative fiction. Both rely on strong world-building but in the end, the story is what’s most important.
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You’re welcome. I don’t have any experience with either genre, so I couldn’t really say. I have been finding that a lot of things are overlapping these days. From my own genre of fantasy, I see some stories are putting on a sci-fi or historical side to it.
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