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Mackenzi Lee – #TTBF Author Interview

August 2, 2017 in TTBF 2017
1. This book is based on the travels of an 18th century aristocrat. How much research did you have to do to get it right? Oh gosh, so much research! Before I started writing, I read so many firsthand accounts and letters and diary entries and travel guides from the 1700s written by young people touring Europe. Once I started writing, I continued to research everything from banks and currency to pirate lingo to the opera scene in Spain to restaurant menus. And, of course, I check every word and phrase I use for first usage—writing historical fiction is a grind! 2. Which character from the book would you personally want to invite on an epic road trip, and which one would you leave at home? Aw do I have to leave one of them behind? I’d take Felicity with me because she and I would have very compatible travel styles—get up early, hit up museums and historical sites and splurge on things like informational walking tours instead of booze (and neither of us would have much interest in the night scene—in bed by ten!). So as much fun as he can be, I’d leave Monty behind because he travels in basically the opposite way I do, and is accustomed to, and much less able to adapt to an absence of, an entirely different level of luxury than I am. 3. TTBF’s new slogan is “Read Everything.” What book have you read that you’d like to see on our official Read Everything book list for 2017? Speak Easy, Speak Love by Mckelle George! It’s a hilarious, energetic, and zingy retelling of Much Ado About Nothing set amid the speakeasy scene of 1920s Long Island. I’m so in love with everything about it.

Author Interview with Mackenzi Lee

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