Today its time for a quick guest post from Kim Askew and Amy Helmes, these awesome women have put their mark on Shakespeare with their Twisted Lit Series (reviews coming soon, sorry guys!) The latest of these is Anyone But You, a remake of Romeo & Juilet and the authors dropped by Readaraptor to tell you guys more about it…
Confession time: The prospect of putting our own stamp on Romeo & Juliet, filled us with equal parts excitement and dread. Having already used Macbeth and The Tempest as springboards for our first two releases in our Twisted Lit series (Exposure and Tempestuous, respectively), we realized it was time to tackle the Bard’s timeless teen tragedy. (You can’t created a series of Shakespeare-inspired YA novels and not “go there,” after all.)
We were plenty familiar with the story — who isn’t? — and therein lay our biggest reservations. How do you do justice to the greatest love story of all time? Does the world even need another modern redo of Romeo and Juliet? These were two of the big questions we pondered as we thought about approaching the tale. How do you tell an age-old story without succumbing to the “been-there, done-that” trap?

Thanks, Raimy, for letting us drop by!
Kim and Amy
or by following on twitter: @kaskew and @amyhelmes
One Comment
Zoe Crook
Interesting post! I haven’t read many Romeo and Juliet re-makes (I haven’t even read the original, haha) but I know that there are plenty of modern re-tellings already. But the backstory behind Capulet and Montague sounds like something I’ll read! 😀 Thanks for sharing, Raimy.