PRIDE & PRINCESSES by SUMMER DAY
Mix a teenage version of Emma with a touch of Pride
and Prejudice, transfer the drama to an American high school and the
results can be...contagious:
& this is one of the original drafts of the first page, it changed a lot prior to publication:
Chapter 1
Arrivals
The day
Mark Knightly transferred to Sunrise High from some snooty boarding school in
England was the day Mouche and I began the Boy-Rating
Diaries. They weren’t written in the traditional manner although they
started that way. We wrote our thoughts on pink notepaper and used a feathered
pen popular with countless teenage girls from previous generations. Suddenly,
the secret diary became a blog that ended up as a how-to-guide to dating within the hallowed halls of our Performing
Arts School. We went from social
wallflowers to social winners in under a month all because our fantasy men
walked the halls one surprising day in September and stopped to ask my best
friend Mouche directions to home room. ‘And
not a minute too soon,’ Mouche noted, ‘I was beginning to think high school
could only be fun in movies...’
PRIDE & PRINCESSES by SUMMER DAY: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0069JLAPA
