That was the jumping off point and I went from there. “I don’t know if it was because it was the first real classic I read and it’s just been in my head ever since,” she says. King started outlining that night, quickly choosing Pride and Prejudice as her template. “She was doing The Wizard of Oz at a music festival. “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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