![]() ![]() “I was chatting with a friend… and she mentioned that she was working on a retelling,” she says. If I had my druthers, it’d just be, like, well-adjusted, clever people just floating in space, just bantering.”Ī conversation with a friend and fellow writer gave her the prompt that she needed, King says. “But plot is always the sticking point for me. ![]() “Having worked at a show, I had it in the back of my head that it would just be a great setting for a story,” she says. King spent some time in that world herself a few years ago and knew she wanted to use that environment as a setting for a book – she just didn’t know what story she wanted to tell. ![]() Austin author Vanessa King has just released her debut novel, A Certain Appeal, which is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in the world of modern burlesque in New York City. ![]()
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