Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or…well, anything except working in the family’s museum. Gathered within museum’s walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired: Cinderella’s glass slipper, Snow White’s poisoned apple, the evil queen’s magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty’s enchanted spinning wheel… Here’s the official blurb, it should make things easier:įor generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to “family only.” In your book First Frost, can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about it and why they should read your novel? Which is exactly what I did and I’m glad I listened to her. So after I whined about it on facebook, Shon was the first to tell me to just set the novel aside and work on my new idea. What I really wanted to do was work on another novel that I had an idea for. I just lost that spark that initially got me to start writing the novel in the first place.

I was struggling trying to work on a novel that I had pushed back for years and years and I wasn’t really ‘feeling’ it. What is the best piece of advice you ever received from another author?Ĭan’t say that is this verbatim, but recently my friend Shon Bacon told me to go wherever the writing takes me. Words are the only things that will live on long after we have perished. Always a character that made me feel as though I wasn’t the only one feeling this way.Īnyone that is an avid reader has at least one book where there is one sentence (or even a word) that changed the way that they saw themselves or saw the world. Those moments when I was all alone, there was always a book nearby.

I know that there are some books that I feel helped save my life when I was at my lowest. Why is storytelling so important for all of us?Įveryone needs stories.

I still remember those words after all these years.Īnyway after that I made it my business to learn everything I could about writing and become a published author. I kept looking behind me to see if he was talking to someone else. I couldn’t believe he had actually said those words in reference to me. “You are a diamond in the rough,” he said. I remember the look on his face when I came to his classroom the next day. I’ve always written stories and in my journal (what else is a shy, nerdy girl supposed to do all day?).īut I think the absolute defining moment in my life came when I was 16 years old and one of my teachers read some of the poetry I had written. Part of me wanted to be like my mom, because she is a writer as well. Was there a defining moment during your youth when you realized you wanted to be a writer?

First Frost by Liz DeJesus