How do you create historical fiction that teenagers will actually want to read?

Rudeus Apatis will join us to talk about that and her latest, I must betray you.

Can writing actually save your life?

Jeannie Attenberg will be here to talk about her memoir.

I came all this way to meet you, writing myself home.

Liz Harris will join us to talk about what's going on in the publishing world.

Plus, my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.

It's February 4th.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Rudeus Apatis joins us now from Florida to talk about her latest book.

I must betray you.

Rudeus, thanks for being here.

Thanks so much for having me.

So, Rudeus, I have been reading your work since your first book, as you know, between Shades

of Grey, which I encountered when I was the children's books editor of the New York Times

Book Review.

This is now your, is this your fifth or your sixth novel?

It's my fifth already.

It's your fifth.

What got you interested in writing historical fiction?

Was it specifically and always in your mind historical fiction for teenagers?

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