With Well Wished, Billingsley was donating plasma and happened to be lying in a bed next to a woman with a debilitating illness that left her profoundly weak. Before publishing Well Wished (Atheneum, 1997) she embarked on a fifteen year apprenticeship, during which time she quips, “I wrote three really, really bad novels.” But Billingsley also developed her knowledge of setting, plot and character development more importantly, she found her voice.Īccording to Billingsley, writing is a mysterious process, the first part of which is coming up with a good idea. She works on only one book at a time and each book takes several years to complete. Franny Billingsley is patient and methodical.
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