SheKnows Chick Lit Lauren Bjorkman’s My Invented Life
Author Lauren Bjorkman dishes with SheKnows Chick Lit on sisterhood, secrets, a skate god, Shakespeare and so much more – all deliciously wrapped up in her teen novel, My Invented Life.
SheKnows: Congrats on your book for teens. Tell us a bit about it.
Lauren Bjorkman: One Line Summary: My Invented Life is a comedy of errors with mistaken identities, ambiguous sexuality, skate gods, stage geeks, and true love.
It’s about two sisters who simultaneously adore and sabotage each other in ways that only sisters can. It’s also a romp through the theater geek crowd and a loose retelling of
Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
One teen book blogger, The Shelf Elf, summed it up with this pithy equation:
Funny + depth = pure reading bliss.
SheKnows: Love the title - was this the original title or give us the scoop behind this.
Lauren Bjorkman: At first, I called it Count Me Out—a pun on the conflict. Roz wants her sister to “come out” based on very dubious information. And shy Eva wants
nothing to do with Roz and her crazy plans.
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But I knew that the title wasn’t engaging enough. One afternoon, while washing dishes, I daydreamed myself onto the Oprah Winfrey Show. As I was laughing at my invented interview, the title
came to me in a flash. Like me, Roz experiences fantasy moments where her life unfolds according to her dreams. In fact, she often prefers reverie to reality.
SheKnows: Tell us a bit about the sisters - Roz and Eva. How are the alike, how are they different?
Lauren Bjorkman: Both Roz and Eva love being on stage, and appreciate a well-executed practical joke. That’s where the similarity ends. Zany Roz lives to be the center of
attention, while Eva prefers to melt into the background. This makes their approach to relationships and sexual orientation so different.
Eva is the major talent. But Roz has talent, too—a flair for the dramatic, and a gift for saying the wrong thing. She suffers from Little Sister Syndrome, worshipping Eva one minute, and
trying to one-up her the next. When Eva needs a confidante most, Roz fails to rise to the challenge. At the heart of the novel, Roz grows up enough to rebuild the friendship.
SheKnows: What's the scoop on sexy Skate god Bryan?
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