This is from an interview featured in Shelf Awareness. Go to info@shelf-awareness.com to learn more. It’s about a new book called “Alice I Have Been.” The subject matter is a bit tough to take for me at least–the overtones of a grown man’s obsession with a child creep me out. This book centers on the relationship between Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired him to write “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” The book’s author is Melanie Benjamin. Here the article discusses what made Kate Burke Miciak, v-p and executive editor, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, snap the book up–despite the fact Miciak thought the subject matter had been covered before:
“What grabbed her? The voice, Miciak said. After years of editing suspense, she knows that most structural problems can be fixed so long as the voice is true.”
Very interesting, and something we authors should take to heart.
