Coffee With Authors: A Chat with YA Author Ashlee Willis

I recently became Twitter friends with YA author Ashlee Willis.  When we found out we were debuting YA fantasy novels within weeks of one another, we decided we needed to do something. This is the something. Coffee with Authors is a new Google Hangout series I’m starting, and Ashlee is my first guest. I get her talking about painting fairy/gnome doors on trees and she gets me talking about a not-official announcement. Hope you enjoy:

The Word Changers:

Escaping from the turmoil of a broken family, fifteen-year-old Posy finds herself at her usual haunt … the library. This time, though, when she chooses an unfamiliar book from the shelf, she does not devour its words as she usually does…

Its words devour hers.

Posy is pulled into the pages of a fairy tale, even mistaken for one of its characters. But all is far from perfect in this story’s Kingdom. Characters are whispering of rebellion against both their Plot and the cruel king who has seized control of it. And Posy must find a lost princess whose role in the story is crucial, before her own story comes to a horrible end …

With the proud and haughty Prince Kyran as a reluctant companion, Posy ventures past the Borders of the Plot, into the depths of the gloomy and treacherous Wild Land forest that lies beyond. Secrets are buried there. Dark mysteries and shadowy creatures, dangerous and deadly.

Yet the deadliest danger of all is the one that Posy carries within herself.

Soon it is clear that finding the lost princess is the least of Posy’s concerns. The Author of the book must be found. His Plot must be put to rights again, his characters reminded of who they were first written to be. Only then will the True Story be written, both for Posy, and for the tale she has now become a part of.

Courage and forgiveness are needed for Posy to find her way home again. But bitterness and shadows haunt her every step of the way…

Visit Ashlee’s website or follow her on Twitter @BookishAshlee.