Keeping your focus tight and refusing to be guided by other people’s desires and agendas. What's the most challenging part of being an author? There are so many parts of it that are rewarding, but I don’t think anything will ever dampen that. Getting to spend as much of my day as I like devoted to the thing I love best. What's your favorite part of being an author? How many siblings I have… or that my birth order makes me 7 of 9-which pleases the Trekkie in me, greatly. What's one fun fact most people don't know about you?
For one thing, I’m drawn to fellow creators, and I think our personalities complement. I would definitely have been friends with Bethlehem and Jo, for sure. If you'd met the March sisters as a teen, would you have been friends with any of them? It would be impossible to decide! From the details of the Roanoke Island Freedpeople’s Colony, to the others discussed in the novel, to the different uses for local flora, to the food staples, to the thriving Black neighborhoods of Boston at the time…there were just too many terribly interesting lessons! What's the most interesting thing you learned while researching So Many Beginnings? I’m not sure many people are improved by unsolicited advice, honestly, and as Beth says in reference to her youngest sister, Amy, in So Many Beginnings, I trust each of them to continue growing and evolving. If you could give each of the March sisters one piece of advice, what would it be? They’re a family who emancipated themselves as the Civil War waged on around them, who stayed together despite all the nation’s attempts to destroy and disconnect them. They’re fiercely loyal, fiercely individual. The March sisters love each other fiercely. Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful YA remix of the classic novel Little Women, by national bestselling author Bethany C.
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