Jenn: I started by reading some great political nonfiction, like Game Change, for a good grounding in how campaigns operate.
I sort of combined that premise with my fascination with campaigns and started to develop it into the story that became The Wrong Side of Right.Īshley: How much research went into writing this book? Did you find it difficult to create such a vibrant political setting?
It struck me how impersonal the news reports were about the kids-and it made me wonder what it must be like to be a completely innocent kid caught up in a national scandal. Then there seemed to be a cluster of breaking news stories about political sex scandals, some of which, like the John Edwards affair, resulted in illegitimate children. Jenn: I became interested in politics on a sort of spectator level after a bunch of my friends volunteered for the Obama campaign back in 2008. What made you want to write this kind of political YA? The Wrong Side of Right is available for purchase from Amazon, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, Barnes & Noble, and Indiebound.Īshley: The Wrong Side of Right blends family stress and romance with a very realistic political campaign scene. When Kate agrees to join the Coopers on the campaign trail as part of a desperate attempt at damage control, she’s plunged headlong into the cut-throat world of politics, hoping to both forge a connection with the family she never knew and find some answers about the mother she’s so recently lost. She never expected that she’d learn anything at all about him-especially not from a mob of screaming reporters.īut after a New York Times reporter discovers that the sixteen-year-old Kate is the illegitimate daughter of Senator Mark Cooper, presumptive Republican nominee for President, the press descends-and with it, the Cooper campaign. When Kate Quinn’s mother died a year ago in a car accident, Kate assumed that the secret of her father’s identity died along with her. Other hobbies include writing about herself in the third-person, studying classical voice, learning languages, and traveling the world with her family.įind Jenn on: Website, Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads An NYU-Tisch grad with a BFA in Drama, Jenn still enjoys making a fool of herself on at least a weekly basis. Jenn Marie Thorne writes YA fiction from her home in beautiful Gulfport, Florida, alongside her dashing husband, her adventurous toddler, and her eternally put-upon hound Molly. Sweet Sixteener Ashley Herring Blake recently spoke to Fearless Fifteener Jenn Marie Thorne about her contemporary YA novel THE WRONG SIDE OF RIGHT (Mafrom Dial/Penguin).
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