The queen of YA smoulder talks to site member Lottie is Dottie about her love of Wuthering Heights, her new book Dangerous Lies and how glad she is to have the old journals she kept in high school
Lottie is Dottie: If it were possible to live inside a world from a book, which world would you chose and why?
Becca Fitzpatrick: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, because James Fraser. That is all.
Of your characters, main and secondary, which do you think resembles you the most?
I think I’d choose Stella. My senior year of high school, my family moved to a different state. I was ripped away from the only friends I’d ever known and was forced to reinvent myself in a town I wanted nothing to do with. I was bitter, angry and hurt. With this move came a lot of upheaval in my family. My parents divorced, and due to a change in our financial situation, I was forced to attend a college I had not planned on going to. It was a rough time for me. While writing Dangerous Lies, I felt Stella’s pain. I acknowledged and channeled my own grief and heartache from my teen years; I let Stella go through a range of emotions before finding peace. There are readers who will find Stella incredibly unlikeable. To this I would say, I was a pretty unlikeable at eighteen too.
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