I sat by her bedside after a drug overdose. Out of the blue, my older daughter began a precipitous slide into serious mental illness. Then, in the summer of 2005, my family life took a horrible turn. After I finished The Hollow Kingdom, my editor suggested that I write a tie-in to one of the Brontë classics, but at the time, the idea didn’t appeal to me because I was busy playing with my goblins. Wuthering Heights has been important to me since childhood. My mother wrote her master’s thesis about Heathcliff, so I grew up immersed in Brontë lore. What inspired you to write a prequel to Wuthering Heights for young adults? Dunkle and The House of Dead Maids, and to see a list of the other blog tour stops, you can visit her website for the book. You can read my review of the book, which I really enjoyed, in a separate post. Dunkle on my blog as part of the blog tour for her new novel, The House of Dead Maids. I am very excited to include this interview with Clare B.
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