Maybe I’m just awkward, but if someone appeared in my life and said “oh btw, we’re gonna be in love forever now, it’s FATE,” I’d be pretty weirded out.

The idea first came to me when Twilight was the hottest thing in the fiction world, and there were a whole bunch of similar novels about people fated to be together, or all-powerful supernatural love-at-first-sight that people couldn’t escape. Why didn’t you pick that one?Ī Wicked Thing originally came from a place of being completely fed up with romance tropes. I read that your favorite fairy tale is The Little Mermaid. How did you get the idea for your book and why did you choose to retell Sleeping Beauty’s story. And I think other people change careers too, so don't feel back. I wouldn’t recommend graduate -> be sad -> write a book -> luck out and sell it and stop looking for another career path as a life plan, but it worked out for me so far!Ģ.

So, while trying to figure things out, I turned my academic side into my blog, Feminist Fiction, and I wrote the book that would ultimately become A Wicked Thing. I knew I was really good at academics, but the idea of grad school was more “I don’t know what I’m doing!” than an actual dream. After graduation, my visa ran out, so I very reluctantly moved back to England, got a job at a bookstore, and tried to figure out what the hell I wanted to do with my life. I’m originally from the north of England, but I moved to America when I was 18 to study English Lit and Japanese at Princeton. I always get nervous when telling people about myself – I think it’s the shy British girl side of me going “no, no, tell me about YOU.” But here goes. Tell us about yourself and how you became a writer. Hi Rhiannon! Thanks so much for joining us.ġ. Rhiannon Thomas weaves together vivid scenes of action, romance, and gorgeous gowns to reveal a richly imagined world … and Sleeping Beauty as she’s never been seen before. With her wedding day drawing near, Aurora must make the ultimate decision on how to save her kingdom: marry the prince or run.

And her whole life has been planned out by political foes while she slept.Īs Aurora struggles to make sense of her new world, she begins to fear that the curse has left its mark on her, a fiery and dangerous thing that might be as wicked as the witch who once ensnared her. But as Aurora understands all too well, the truth is nothing like the fairy tale. All the books say that she should be living happily ever after. One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. Rhiannon Thomas's dazzling debut novel is a spellbinding reimagining of Sleeping Beauty and what happens after happily ever after.

A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas