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How we wrote a book together by email as penpals

Written By Unknown on Friday, October 2, 2015 | 10:10 AM

CJ Daugherty’s new novel The Secret Fire, is co-written with her penpal Carina Rozenfeld, and it’s about pen pals too! Here’s how they made it work

When I was young I lived 2,000 miles from my best friend. We communicated exclusively by epic letters. Some were 20-30 pages long. The thicker the envelope the happier we were.

My co-writer Carina Rozenfeld had a pen pal in school, too. “She was an American girl I met through my English lessons,” she recalls. “I remember waiting for her letters impatiently.”