Hello & Welcome to today's END TIMES blog tour stop, hosted by Penguin Teen. I'm thrilled to have Anna on the blog today to talk about her inspiration for End Times. First, here's a little bit about END TIMES.
By: Anna Schumacher
Published by: Razor Bill / Penguin Teen
Released on: May 20, 2014
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When life gets too tough to bear in Detroit, Daphne flees to her Uncle Floyd’s home, where she believes she’ll find solace in the silent hills of her childhood summers. But Daphne’s Greyhound bus pulls over in downtown Carbon County and it’s not silence that welcomes her. It’s the sound of trumpets.
Daphne’s desire to start again in simple country comfort is instantly dashed as the townsfolk declare that the End Times are here. And incredible occurrences soon support their belief. Daphne does all she can to keep her head down and ignore the signs. She works a job at the local oil rig, helps around the house, hangs out with her pregnant cousin Janie and gets to know Owen, a mysterious motocross racer and fellow roustabout at the rig. But soon a startling discovery shatters her resolve and calls into question all her doubts and fears.
Today's tour question is:
What was your the inspiration for END TIMES?
Like all respectable YA authors, I read a TON of YA. I’m a huge fan of dystopian, but whenever I read a dystopian novel or series I want to really understand how the world got that way. There’s almost always a backstory, and it’s almost never enough, and I always find myself wishing for a novella or something that puts me in the center of the action when the world as we know it is destroyed.
For END TIMES, I wanted to write an apocalyptic series that begins well before the apocalypse, with character arcs that span the before, during, and after. When I read this NYTimes article about oil boomtowns in North Dakota, it all just catalyzed for me and I knew that an oil boomtown was the perfect setting for the rapture story I’d always wanted to tell.
About Anna
Anna Schumacher received an MFA in fiction writing from The New School. Born and raised in the tiny town of Guilford, VT (no traffic lights, no post office, one store), she now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and two cats. END TIMES is her first novel.
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I hadn't heard of this one. Sounds pretty riveting.
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