“I thought, ‘I’m not going to be interested.’ ”Įver After High is a boarding school where children of fairy tale characters go to school, and on Legacy Day they must commit to continuing their role in their story or, according to Headmaster Grimm, they and their story will be forgotten and vanish.
“I was too curious,” Hale said, but figured it was going to be retelling of a fairy tale or princess story, as that’s what she is known for. Her agent told her that there was a publisher that wanted to talk to her about a project, but she would have to sign a non-disclosure agreement first. The wife and mother of four, including a set of 3-year-old twins who are resisting potty training, was planning to take a break from full-time writing. When the publisher approached her about the project, Hale and her agent had to sign a non-disclosure agreement before hearing what the project was about.Īt the time, Hale had just finished “ Dangerous,” a young adult book due out next spring with Bloomsbury, and for the first time in about a decade she didn’t have a book under contract. “It was really cloak and dagger,” Hale said in a telephone interview.Įven when “ Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends” ( Little, Brown and Company, $14.99, ages 8-12) featuring the children of well-known fairy tale characters, was announced at BookExpo America earlier this year along with the dolls and other products from Mattel, and they could call it by its correct name, it was difficult to not refer to it by its codename. They had a codename for it: Project Lightning. It was a project so secret that Utah author Shannon Hale couldn’t mention it by name to anyone, including her agent or editors, whether via email, phone or otherwise referencing it.
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