Author: Elle Casey
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If you liked The Breakfast Club and The Swiss Family Robinson, you'll love WRECKED! An ill-fated Caribbean cruise and four teenagers: a nerd, a jock, a mouse, and a beauty queen…an island, a treehouse, some nefarious interlopers…life and death…fear and loathing…love and laughter. Follow Jonathan, Kevin, Candi and Sarah as they find their typical high school lives and their worlds totally WRECKED.
I will be reviewing this book soon, so keep your eye out!
Elle Casey
What inspired me to write Wrecked?
To answer this
question, I have to give you a bit of history ...
So – about me – I’ve
been an avid reader since I was really young.
The first books I remember loving were Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Pinocchio. My Uncle Jeff gave
me these big, colorful Disney books for my fourth birthday and my mom would
read them to me every night before bed. The
colorful pictures really brought the stories to life. Later of course I didn’t need the pictures –
preferring instead to create my own scenes in my head. The fantasy present in those books inspired
me to read more.
From the time I was
around seven or so, my grandfather worked at a publishing house in the printing
department, and he’d get boxes of books that weren’t going to be sold, destined
for the garbage dump. I’m not sure if
they were bad prints or what, but it meant a lot of free books for me. I read everything from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to Treasure Island. All of
these longer books were abridged versions for kids. Because I read so much in the next few years,
I became a very fast reader. I
practically swallowed books whole. I
could read at least one a day after school.
I spent a lot of time in a comfy chair or sitting up in bed reading,
especially on weekends. I got regularly
busted with a flashlight under the covers when I was supposed to be
sleeping. I was tired at school a lot. I preferred my fiction to school textbooks. I moved up from abridged versions to full versions
of a lot of American classics, both older and modern.
I found myself
drawn to books that featured kids who were somehow thrust into adult situations
without adults around to help or guide or even provide for them. Three books that really stick out in my mind
are Children In Hiding, The Girl Who
Owned a City, and Baby Island. I’ve re-read them as an adult and I still
enjoy them, although I realize I missed some of the underlying messages that
were there. That wasn’t important to me
as a kid and actually I’m kind of glad I ignored the bigger issues and latched
onto the ‘independent kid’ theme. I
think it helped shape my personality to be one of a very self-sufficient,
‘never say never’ type of person.
So now you know the
type of stories I was attracted to as a kid.
Fast forward to an ugly divorce between my parents and the corresponding
difficult, angry teen years – and you’ll see that I had even more reason to
bury my nose in a book. I found solace
there. I was struggling to identify
myself, figure out who I was. I didn’t
fit into the molds my parents had planned for me. In books I met characters who weren’t fitting
into molds either, but they were having adventures and discovering that they
were okay, even if they were different.
Again, I loved it when young characters took charge and did what needed
to be done, damn the consequences (or adults getting in the way!) What can I say? I was a rebel at heart.
My first novel is Wrecked which I’ve likened to a cross
between The Breakfast Club and The Swiss Family Robinson. When you read it, you will see that I was
inspired by stories like Baby Island,
Treasure Island, and the film Castaway. You can see my history throughout this book
too. There are kids who don’t fit in,
but want to. You see kids who have to
survive without adults. You see kids
getting a new perspective on life, showing them that maybe there’s more than
one way to be – that fitting into a mold may not be the best choice.
I actually had to write this book. It has been in my head, floating around,
nagging me, basically haunting me for many years. But writing it was like therapy in a
way. I created a world and a group of
people who needed to have their stories told.
It’s like I just took dictation of what really happened to these kids –
Sarah, Kevin, Jonathan and Candi. These
characters are real for me, and my sincerest hope is that someone out there
will read Wrecked and identify with
them and care about them too ... and maybe even find inspiration in their
adventures.
So, in a nutshell,
I wrote Wrecked because it was the
only way to get any sleep at night (and of course, its underlying themes were
so important to me as a kid). Now my
innermost hopes, worries, and realizations are out there on paper and I can not
only sleep at night but also move on to other exciting projects. Speaking of which... my next love, after the
idea of kids surviving alone, is the world of Young Adult Fantasy. So now my nights are filled with the War of
the Fae, my new series. The characters
are independent kids, extraordinary kids – they don’t fit in but there’s a very
good reason for that. I’m super excited
about it. You can read a quick summary
of the story on my website www.ElleCasey.com.
Thanks to Mazz at Words on the Shelf for having me as a
guest blogger. Happy reading everyone!
Through Elle Casey's website I have discovered yours and other reader-blogger websites. Thank you for having Elle Casey as a guest. I LOVE her work and she has introduced me to this and other reader blogs that I will continue to use.
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If you liked The Breakfast Club and The Swiss Family Robinson, you'll love WRECKED! An ill-fated Caribbean cruise and four teenagers: a nerd, a jock, a mouse, and a beauty queen…an island, a treehouse, some nefarious interlopers…life and death…fear and loathing…love and laughter.
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