GYDO: Andrea Hannah

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Hi, lovelies! I want to talk to you a little about dreams today. And I mean all kinds of dreams: the ones that float in your brain at night and the ones you pull from the sky during the day.

My debut, OF SCARS AND STARDUST, is a product of both kinds of dreams.

A few years ago, I was pretty sad. I had moved back home to Michigan, my mom was sick, and my teenaged brother had come to live with me. It was a lot, and it was very fast, and I felt my whole world kind of tipping on its axis and I was tumbling off. So I wrote a book.

I’d written a book before, but this time I wanted to get serious about it. I wanted to write a story that would help me process this feeling of falling and chasing and searching for something. I’d scribble ideas in my journal, let them roll around my head during the day, but nothing ever stuck.

And then I had a dream.

I fell asleep on the couch one night and I dreamt about two sisters. I saw them clinging to each other while snow swirled around them. And—as crazy as this sounds—I heard someone kind of whispering in my ear, telling me the plot of this story. It told me the characters’ names. It told me the title (which didn’t end up being the title, but still cool). I wrote up and wrote down everything I could remember.

I’ve never told anyone that before, that the book of my heart came from a random dream. But I just feel like, if someone or something gives you the idea/plot/characters, you just don’t ignore that, you know? So I wrote the book.

All of the dreams that came after that have been the daylight dreams, the ones that flit through your head about agents and book contracts and publishing. All of those dreams came true, too.

And now that I’m a couple months away from this little dream becoming a physical reality, in the hands of readers, I’m making sure to listen to my dreams more than ever. I write down all of them—the crazy ones, the shiny ones, the T-Rex sized ones. I give them all the attention they deserve. Because you know what? Your dreams are your dreams for a reason. They mean something to you. Don’t be afraid to dream your very biggest dreams, don’t be afraid to listen.

And after you’re done listening, chase them. Chase them to the ends of the earth until they have no choice but to become true. You never know what could happen.

 

About Of Scars and Stardust

After her little sister mysteriously vanishes, seventeen-year-old Claire Graham has a choice to make: stay snug in her little corner of Manhattan with her dropout boyfriend, or go back to Ohio to face the hometown tragedy she’s been dying to leave behind. 
But the memories of that night still haunt her in the city, and as hard as she tries to forget what her psychiatrist calls her “delusions,” Claire can’t seem to escape the wolf’s eyes or the blood-speckled snow. Delusion or reality, Claire knows she has to hold true to the most important promise she’s ever made: to keep Ella safe. She must return to her sleepy hometown in order to find Ella and keep her hallucinations at bay before they strike again. But time is quickly running out, and as Ella’s trail grows fainter, the wolves are becoming startlingly real.
Now Claire must deal with her attraction to Grant, the soft-spoken boy from her past that may hold the secret to solving her sister’s disappearance, while following the clues that Ella left for only her to find. Through a series of cryptic diary entries, Claire must unlock the keys to Ella’s past—and her own—in order to stop another tragedy in the making, while realizing that not all things that are lost are meant to be found.

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About Andrea Hannah

Andrea Hannah lives in the Midwest, where there are plenty of dark nights and creepy cornfields to use as fodder for her next thriller. She graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in special education. When she’s not teaching or writing, she spends her time running, traveling, and attempting to keep her pug out of the refrigerator (unsuccessful to date).
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