When I heard that the author of 50 Shades of Gray was going to be speaking at Willow Ridge Country
Club in Harrison, NY, I immediately emailed my friend, writer Annabel
Monaghan. “You’ve got to come with
me to hear E.L. James,” I begged.
Annabel
and I met in a novel writing workshop at Sarah Lawrence College about a year
and a half ago. On the first day
of class, we went around the table and introduced ourselves. It was instant kinship. In the oft-recycled words from the film
Jerry Maguire, she had me at “I wrote
a YA novel about a math genius that falls in love with the FBI operative hired
to protect her from terrorists,” and I had her at “my main character is a
teacher and mom who lies to her family and her employer and takes off for a
much-needed vacation.”
Who
else to sit next to at a 50 Shades luncheon than one another?
“I’m
going to have to think about it,” she wrote back. “On the one hand I want to attend, and on the other, I fear
it might suck out my soul.”
Understood. Continue reading here.
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