Hello
everyone, and thank you, Maria Grazia, for
hosting this stop of the blog tour for my new novella Thaw! As Thaw is an epistolary story, I thought
I’d take the opportunity today to say a few words about writing a story through
letters.
When I
first started writing Thaw some ten
years ago, it was meant to be a very short story. I had never written a story
told entirely through letters before, and intended it as a quick experiment. But
what started out as an experiment of 10 to 12 letters soon grew into something
bigger—when I finished the original version of the story in 2011, it was three
times longer than I had originally intended. And now, in its expanded,
published form, Thaw has grown into a
collection of altogether 51 letters, describing the early days of a forced
marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy—and the events that led to it.
