A Sitka-based author has taken a detour into young adult fiction, and the diversion has paid off with a national award.
“I’ve always wanted a gold sticker on my book. And now I have one,” says Jones.
Jones’ new novel Whispering Alaska, was published last year by Penguin/Random House. Jones says the story about twin girls who move to an island in Alaska wasn’t his idea — it was suggested to him by an editor at Random House. “My agent called up and said, ‘Hey, listen, there’s a great editor out there, Beverly Horowitz,’” said Jones, “‘Would you be interested in writing a story about twins coming from Pennsylvania to Alaska?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know anything about, you know, young adult.’ And, Julian, my agent pointed out, ‘Well, you’re gonna have three of them – and specifically three girls, because you have three girls who are younger now.
“So they’re grieving their mother’s loss, and they’re mirror twins. It’s this incredible thing where twins are actually mirrors of each other.,” he says. “So when their mother dies, they have very different ways of dealing with her death.”
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