This week YA authors Jessica Koosed Etting and Alyssa Embree Schwartz took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Jessica Koosed Etting and Alyssa Embree Schwartz are the authors of Fade into the Bright. (See YEM’s rundown of Jessica Koosed Etting and Alyssa Embree Schwartz here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
We’re heeeere!! It’s Jess & Lyss, authors of the new YA novel #FadeIntotheBright, and we are ready for this #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/cP7UUSvftm
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
You may also know a few of our other novels…THE LOST CAUSES is a YA supernatural thriller that was inspired by our own love of Lois Duncan and Christopher Pike books. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/Vh3sIcKQuo
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
And our first books were the GEORGETOWN ACADEMY series, which took place at a D.C. prep school with only one rule: whatever you do, don’t get caught! Oh, and don’t fall in love with the son of your mom’s political enemy. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/q6S4PWCbkU
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Our newest book FADE INTO THE BRIGHT is the story of 2 sisters, one summer and a diagnosis that changes everything — When sisters Abby and Brooke discover their father has the gene for Huntington’s Disease, they find out they're at risk too. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
After undergoing genetic testing to see if either of them has the gene, Abby escapes to the island of Catalina for the summer, in a place where no one knows her or her story…#YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Fade Into the Bright was initially inspired by a family member and friend Kate Miner who comes from a family affected by Huntington’s Disease. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
You might know Kate as Tami on Shameless or from her amazing band Miner (find them if you haven’t, you’ll thank us later!) @SHO_Shameless @thisisminer #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/bs4c4ii2Kr
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Huntington’s Disease is a genetic fatal neurodegenerative disease that typically begins affecting those with the gene in their late thirties or early forties. There is no cure. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Those at risk for Huntington’s Disease can choose to test if they have the gene. Most people at risk choose not to test and it’s a question Abby and Brooke wrestle with in our story as they decide whether to find out. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
If you had the ability to know your future or how you might die, would you choose to know? #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Okay….now a little bit about us: We met the first day of freshman year of college and instantly did not like each other! Weeks later, we walked to our dorms together and bonded over the fact we both loved the Babysitters Club books growing up. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Sidenote: Who else is a Babysitters Club fan and which babysitter is your fave?? We both always wanted to be Stacey! #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess @AuthorAnnMartin pic.twitter.com/pdvdtMfMw7
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
And has anyone seen the @netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club? We’re dying to see it but haven’t yet! #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Another fact about us: We’ve been best friends since our walk home that day! Here's baby Lyss and Jess celebrating Jess's 19th bday! #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/hKu5tjzgY7
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
We now live on opposite coasts (Jess in L.A., Lyss in D.C.) but the way we write is the same. Outline together, split up chapters, swap and edit over and over. By the end we don't know who wrote which parts. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
The best part of writing FADE was our 3 day research trip to Catalina. Spotty Wi-Fi, no TV, no distractions freaked us out at first, but we ended up loving every second. Jess even figured out how she could still watch the @BacheloretteABC finale
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Unfortunately these anti-motion sickness glasses only worked for one of us on the ferry over to Two Harbors, the smaller island of Catalina where most of FADE INTO THE BRIGHT takes place. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/C0OWrjPsrM
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Living on opposite coasts has ruined our book trading game, but in a surprise to no one, we share the same fave contemporary authors: @csittenfeld @TanaFrench @meganeabbott @Egangoonsquad @lisalutz …the list goes on and on. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Our fave part of writing is character development. We dig deep for months before we start writing and whenever we're stuck, we can trust our characters to help us find the way out. #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Our favorite independent bookstores from coast to coast: @politicsandprose in D.C. and @chevalierbooks in L.A. #supportyourlocalbookstore #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Fun fact — when we met we found out we had the same obsession with the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. We know no one shares our opinion but we stand by it! #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess pic.twitter.com/3KgjGitDfr
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Our writing origin story: we started writing together right after we graduated from @USC . The first thing we sold was a TV show about being 23 that we wrote when we were 23! #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
One of the many benefits of having a writing partner — it's rare we have writer's block at the same time so we can rely on each other to pull us out of that black hole! #YAauthorTakeOver! @lyssandjess
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
This is us trying to write ourselves out of said hole!! Also: We drank so many cans of Pamplemousse during the writing Fade Into the Bright should have been sponsored by @lacroixwater #YAauthorTakeOver @LyssAndJess pic.twitter.com/TeTgZREpXf
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
Annnnd that's a wrap!!! Thank you Young Entertainment Magazine for letting us take over! You can find us @lyssandjess and check out our newest release FADE INTO THE BRIGHT, available everywhere books are sold! #YAauthorTakeOver! pic.twitter.com/6bvhWDZmCf
— Young Entertainment Magazine (@YoungEntmag) July 8, 2021
