Top 10 things or places that remind you of your book
- Shakespeare’s Globe! The recreated theatre in London. It’s magical.
- Pretty much any well-worn high school theatre auditorium.
- Trapdoors. I see any trapdoor now and automatically assume it’s a time travel portal.
- All black, high top sneakers! Emma’s favorite shoes. Theatre tehcies wear all black, so you can’t seeing them moving and working backstage.
- Skulls. Alas, poor Yorick.
- Cannons. The Globe playhouse caught on fire in 1613 because of a special effects cannon misfiring during a production of Henry VIII. Then it had to be rebuilt! There’s a reference to this fire in SAVING HAMLET.
- Pixie hair cuts. Emma’s story starts with a super short hair cut.
- Outer space themed cafes. There’s a special spot in the fictional town of Belleport, MA, where my main SAVING HAMLET characters go to rehearse and gossip about their play.
- The smell of garlic. Elizabethan England really smelled.
10. Hamlet. There are two productions of Hamlet happening in SAVING HAMLET, but in two different time periods!
ABOUT SAVING HAMLET:
Emma Allen couldn't be more excited to start her sophomore year. Not only is she the assistant stage manager for the drama club's production of Hamlet, but her crush Brandon is directing, and she's rocking a new haircut that's sure to get his attention. But soon after school starts, everything goes haywire. Emma's promoted to stage manager with zero experience, her best friend Lulu stops talking to her, and Josh--the adorable soccer boy who's cast as the lead--turns out to be a disaster. It's up to Emma to fix it all, but she has no clue where to start.One night after rehearsal, Emma stays behind to think through her life's latest crises and distractedly falls through the stage's trap door . . . landing in the basement of the Globe Theater.
It's London, 1601, and with her awesome new pixie cut, everyone thinks Emma's a boy--even Will Shakespeare himself. With no clue how to get home, Emma gamely plays her role as backstage assistant to the original production of Hamlet, learning a thing or two about the theater, and meeting an incredibly hot actor named Alex who finds Emma as intriguing as she finds him. But once Emma starts traveling back and forth through time, things get really confusing. Which boy is the one for her? In which reality does she belong? Will Lulu ever forgive her? And can she possibly save two disastrous productions ofHamlet before time runs out?
ABOUT MOLLY BOOTH:
Molly Booth grew up homeschooled in Massachusetts with her four boisterous siblings. She stage managed for three different community theatres in high school. Her first college was Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, MA; she then went on to study writing, literature, and Elizabethan history on a very cold hill at Marlboro College in Vermont. There, she wrote the first drafts of Saving Hamlet, her debut novel, coming 11/1/16 from Disney Hyperion. Her second book, Nothing Happened, will be coming spring 2018.
Molly also writes for The Mary Sue, and sometimes other sites like HelloGiggles, The Tempest, and McSweeney’s. She spends most of her time snuggling her adorable dog Suzie, pet rats Meg and Marigold, and Harriet the queen cat.
She’s represented by Alex Slater at Trident Media Group, and edited by Kieran Viola at Disney Hyperion.
Tour Schedule:
Week 1:
10/24: Fiery Reads - Review
10/26: The Young Folks - Review
10/27: No BS Book Reviews - Q&A
10/28: The Book Cellar - Review
Week 2:
11/1: The Plot Bunny - Review
Giveaway:
3 Finished Copies of SAVING HAMLET (US Only)
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