TIME spoke to Dana Schwartz about bucking the conventions of a romance novel, channeling her inner teen and why she retired her ultra-popular Twitter accounts
which chronicled the misadventures of her early 20s. But Schwartz says her latest book, a YA romance that mixes the historical and supernatural, might be her most personal work to date. It’s the romance she wanted to read when she was younger, complete with an ambitious heroine, a swoony first love and plenty of gore.out Jan. 18, follows Hazel Sinnett, a noblewoman in 1817 Edinburgh who dreams of becoming a surgeon—a profession that women were for the most part barred from pursuing.
Hazel is someone who’s incredibly ambitious, smart and focused. I didn’t want the book to say the most important thing is finding a boyfriend. It always made me laugh in dystopian books when people are literally dying and the protagonist is like, “Oh, but who will I love?” But on the other hand, I didn’t want to say that smart, ambitious women can’t also find love and have crushes. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
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