Jodi walked up to us in a room that was very much not a bathroom and handed us mitts. Please wash your hands first.”Īshton: I’m sure you had other reasons, too! Kidding. “Hi! I like you and your weird bonding! Have some mitts. Meadows: You make it sound like I followed you into the bathroom to a) listen to you talk about bodily functions and b) give you fingerless mitts. And then Jodi gave us each hand-knitted mitts. But we quickly bonded in the bathroom when we discovered that both of us couldn’t hold our pee like we could before we had kids. And we just instantly hit it off.īrodi Ashton: I was intimidated meeting Cynthia because this was her second book, and she was sort of a rock star. Our publishers sent us to Texas together on a book tour back in 2012, since we all had books coming out at the same time. Jodi Meadows: Let’s begin at the beginning and talk about how we met.Ĭynthia Hand: Texas. We asked the three authors to interview each other about the origins of their series, and the joys of collaborating with close friends. This summer, the trio is back with another satirical novel about a famous Jane-this time, Charlotte Brontë’s heroine Jane Eyre. Back in 2016, friends and fellow YA authors Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows teamed up to write My Lady Jane, a playful retelling of the history of Lady Jane Grey and King Edward VI.
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