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Maggie Lehrman, author of THE LAST BEST STORY, on working on a book for ten years

We're excited to have Maggie Lehrman swing by to chat about her latest novel, THE LAST BEST STORY.

Maggie, what was your inspiration for writing THE LAST BEST STORY?

I have a very direct inspiration for THE LAST BEST STORY -- the great classic screwball movie HIS GIRL FRIDAY. In that amazing, still very hilarious film, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell scheme and plot to get a big scoop, while simultaneously flirting and realizing they're meant for each other. The plot is totally different and my characters are modern teens, but I wanted to try to capture that romantic repartee and the fast-talking feeling of the movie.

What scene was really hard for you to write and why, and is that the one of which you are most proud? Or is there another scene you particularly love?

The last scene I wrote -- the latest addition to the manuscript, at the end of many rounds of editing -- comes late in the book, and it's a recounting of an interview that Rose does with a fellow student who treats her badly. She doesn't know how to react to this experience. I felt her conflict very strongly. I wrote this scene a year before #metoo, but only a couple weeks after the election in 2016. Her anger at the unfairness of what happened was something I really wanted to get across and I barely changed it from my handwritten notes to what's in the printed book.

How long did you work on THE LAST BEST STORY?

I have a pretty intense answer to this one. Ten years! I wrote and re-wrote and scrapped drafts and tried different plots off and on for an entire decade. I went to grad school and worked on a different version of this book. Then a couple more years passed and I took one last attempt. My editor helped me shape it from there, and it finally clicked.

What are you working on now?

Three or four different books in different genres. I love to stretch myself. We'll see which one works out -- though it might take ten years again before I can figure it out.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Last Best Story
by Maggie Lehrman
Hardcover
Balzer + Bray
Released 8/7/2018

It’s the end of senior year, and Rose Regnero is over it.

She’s over chasing stories for a school newspaper no one reads. Over missing out on “normal” high school life. And most of all, over Grant Leitch: editor-in-chief, former close friend, never-quite-boyfriend. Now all she wants is a typical prom, complete with handsome date, fancy corsage, and dancing to cheesy pop songs.

It’s the end of senior year, and Grant Leitch is in denial.

He’s in denial about handing over the reins of the paper to an unworthy underclassman. In denial that Rose suddenly, inexplicably quit the paper and now won’t talk to him. But mostly he’s in denial that she is at prom with another guy, and it’s no one’s fault but his own. Grant’s only hope of luring Rose back to him (and the paper) is a juicy story she won’t be able to resist.

In the end it takes a toga-wearing prom crasher, an emergency lockdown, a secret stalker, and a wild after-party to bring Grant and Rose together for one last story...and one final chance to admit that they’re made for each other.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maggie Lehrman is a writer whose first novel for young adults, The Cost of All Things, is available from Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins. Her new book, The Last Best Story, will be available August 7, 2018. She’s also an executive editor at Abrams Books, where she works primarily on young adult, middle grade, and graphic novels. (Check them out!) She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she graduated from Harvard College with a BA in English. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Kyle.

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