I met Liz through her aunt and uncle, who had invited me over for dinner one night. A self-possessed, intelligent young woman of fifteen, she was introduced to me as a writer. "Do you have something I can read?" I asked her. She did. The first few pages of her novella, Splinter. I started reading silently and was soon laughing out loud, at which point I insisted on reading aloud to the whole party. The narrator was intelligent, emotional and charming in a self-deprecating, self-aware way, perhaps a bit like Bridget Jones or like Iris in the movie The Holiday (played by Kate Winslet).
Fast forward a year or two to November 2014, and Liz - after much work - has self-published Splinter, a young adult speculative fiction novella. But I'll let her tell you more about that in her interview, which I'm honored to bring you today.
Congratulations on publishing your first book! Will you tell us a little bit about it?
Splinter follows the story of a girl caught in the web of a corrupt, futuristic entertainment industry. The whole idea is that as the outside world falls apart, so does the inside. Although most of the plot takes place inside the movie, one can determine what’s going on behind the scenes by watching the events that unfold in Eve’s world. A lot of the content in the movie may seem meaningless and sporadic, and sometimes just downright wrong (believe me, Bathos’s scenes were no cakewalk to write), but I encourage readers compare the subject matter to that which is seen in film today—I think many will find it eerily reflective.
