Today I’m happy to welcome Megan Frazer to my blog, to answer a few questions about her debut novel Secrets of Truth & Beauty. Megan is a fellow Mainer, and I have been fortunate to have had several chances to meet her in person, including attending her book launch party. I am right in the middle of reading Secrets of Truth & Beauty and enjoying it. While the book does confront important issues related to identity, perceptions of weight, family, etc. it also presents an appealing and engaging main character who I am rooting for, and is punctuated by moments of humor and beauty. I’ll post a fuller review when I’ve finished it!
Q: Tell us about a scene or character from your novel that was especially easy (or especially difficult) to write.
A: The story hinges on Dara’s English project going horribly awry. It has to make her teacher worried about her and her parents angry. I can’t tell you how many times I went over the project. There was the Johnny Cash version, the John Mayer version, and who knows how many more. I think I finally got it in the end.
Q: What is your favorite (or one of your favorite) myths or fairy-tales, and why? Or alternately, what fairy-tale or myth do you dislike, and why?
A: I have always loved the darker fairy tales, even though they scare me. Rapunzel, for example. I like the ones where there is a real danger, drama, and loves being separated from one another.
Q: So, what has been the most exciting part of selling your book(s) and getting published so far?
A: You know, this is kind of odd, but it didn’t really hit me until I saw an advertisement for Secrets of Truth & Beauty on the back of VOYA. It was like, “They’re really going to publish this!”
About Secrets of Truth & Beauty
When Dara Cohen was little, she was crowned Little Miss Maine. That was then. Now Dara’s seventeen and she’s not so little anymore. That’s just one of her many problems. Another is that her control-freak mom won’t get off her case about anything. Yet the one that hurts the most is the family secret: Dara has an older sister her parents tried to erase from their lives.
About Megan Frazer
Megan Frazer studied English literature and creative writing at Columbia University. She lives with her husband and baby in Maine, where she is a high school librarian. She loves cheese and cooking, and both of these make their way into Secrets of Truth & Beauty. She was not, however, ever in a beauty pageant.
Learn more about Megan at her website.
Secrets of Truth & Beauty is available now! I encourage you to shop at your local independent bookstore!
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