“She’s portrayed as a heroine because she saves her people, but I couldn’t help but wonder if maybe Esther was not really interested in being queen,” Cass said. The other was the biblical story of Esther, a poor orphan, who was among the many beautiful virgins summoned to the palace for a year’s worth of grooming as part of the king’s search for a new queen. She had written one self-published novel, Siren, in 2009, when two well-known stories “merged in my head.” One was Cinderella, who Cass decided had gotten more than she bargained for when she asked her fairy godmother for a dress and a night off, and wound up with a husband. “It was all one kind of storytelling or another.”
She wound up getting a degree in history from Radford University in 2003 because she was able to complete the requirements for it without having to take a lot more courses. She started college as a musical theater major, but switched universities, and majors, twice. It was so overwhelming.”Ĭass, who lives in a rural corner of southwestern Virginia with her husband and two young children, tried on several hats before settling into being a novelist. “If you see footage of me entering the store, you can see I’m crying.
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“I was like, ‘They do realize, it’s just me, right? Not a band or a movie star?’ ” she said. (“I think I posed with every single one of them for a selfie, too,” she recalled.) The security guards in the Philippines who stood with their arms linked to hold back fans, so that Cass could get into a bookstore where she was scheduled to appear.
The 900 readers in line for Cass’s autograph at an event in Sao Paolo, Brazil. “I’m kind of speechless,” said Cass, who is slightly flabbergasted by almost every aspect of her trilogy’s success: The fan who came to a signing carrying a copy of The Selection festooned with a thick fringe of post-it notes on which she had written dozens of questions.
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