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I told my editors I didn’t know if we should do the sequel because I didn’t know what the world was going to be like. Because of the pandemic I think it’s very hard to be creative. I was 75% done with the sequel when the pandemic started. I jumped at the chance because I loved the characters so much and I was curious to see where they were all going. But because Anna K was getting good early buzz before publication, my editors brought up the idea. Maybe it was brought up because I got a two-book deal. When I wrote the first one there were no plans to write a sequel. If it wasn’t for him I don’t think we’d be doing this interview because the book still might not be done! I’m lucky enough to have a husband who’s a great editor, because both his parents were English teachers. It was one of the most difficult writing experiences I’ve ever had to deal with. I didn’t want to disappoint fans because they loved these characters. I was a little bit cocky I thought since I already knew the characters it was going to be easier than the first one.

I never really understood how hard it would be to write a sequel. But the second book, especially writing it during a global pandemic, was hell on Earth for me. Once I figured it out it was fun to draft that first novel. It’s definitely a skillset to be able to crystalize things, but I always take the expansive approach.ĭid you find anything tricky about writing your first novel compared to now?Īnna K was one of my best writing experiences as an author. I just did one crazy first draft that was like 530 pages! And then it really needed trims and cuts. That unlocked everything for me and I immediately started writing. And then I was able to compare it to writing for TV, working with a large cast of characters all the time, and that was how I began writing short chapters as if they were scenes.

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And being a TV writer, I knew this was how I needed to structure my book. The show was exactly like the books, at least season one is. And then I started reading the books because I loved it. But when I wrote it in the spring of 2018, I had minor surgery and I watched Game of Thrones while I was recovering. Everyone thinks Anna K has a lot of characters the original has so many more and takes place over years and is an expansive book. I tried a couple times because Tolstoy’s novel is so unwieldy. I had told my book agent at the time and she said, “Write it now it’s a great idea.” And now, five years later, here we are. I thought this would be a great YA novel.

I had a brainstorm while I was in New York city and thought, “Oh, it’s really a book about first love” and if you did it in modern times, the characters would all have to be younger, in high school. It really helped me with Anna K because I had the idea for doing a modern adaptation or retelling in 2012 after I saw the Keira Knightley version of the movie. How has being a television writer and producer helped you as a novelist?

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