Wrong in All the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee

On the surface, it’s a contemporary retelling of Wuthering Heights, but the characters are aware of the source text (they’re reading the classic for English class), which adds a meta kind of twist to the retelling format. KIT FRICK: Hi, Tiffany! I’m so excited to chat with you about your debut novel, Wrong in All the Right Ways. But the strength of first love is all-consuming, and they soon get enveloped in a passionate, secretive relationship with a very uncertain outcome.

Emma and Dylan try to constrain their romance to the page–for fear of threatening Dylan’s chances of being adopted into another home.

With no one to confide in, she’s got a lot to write about. Meanwhile, Emma’s AP English class is reading Wuthering Heights, and she’s been assigned to mimic Bronte’s style in an epistolary format.

But things take a turn toward the unexpected when she falls in love for the first time with the one person in the world who’s off-limits–her new foster brother, the gorgeous and tormented Dylan McAndrews. BYR, July 2018).Įverything in Emma’s life has always gone according to her very careful plans. I recently corresponded with Tiffany Brownlee about her debut young adult novel Wrong in All the Right Ways (Henry Holt and Co. You can find all the interviews in the series collected right here. So each month, I chat with a fellow young adult debut novelist, and then I share our conversation with you. I wanted their wisdom, and I wanted to share it with other authors, emerging writers, and readers. If you’re joining us for the first time, here’s what this series is all about: as a debut young adult author myself, ( See All the Stars is coming August 14, 2018–ahhhhh that’s next month!), I found myself eager to start a conversation with a variety of authors in the debut year before, during, and after my own about their books, YA and the writing life more generally, and the experience of putting a first novel out into the world. I’m delighted to bring you the July installment of Debut-to-Debut, for a book that had me totally hooked from the moment I heard the pitch: A YA retelling of Wuthering Heights? Sign me up! (Also, cue the Kate Bush, amIright?!)

Wrong in All the Right Ways by Tiffany Brownlee