And that’s the main character, Elizabeth. So you have the stage kitten, who’s the one who picks up what everyone else takes off. “But instead of having it be a group of five sisters, it’s more of a found family kind of thing, with people who work at the show. “The characters kind of slipped in – you know, you have the framework of the personalities based on the Austen characters,” King says. That was the jumping off point and I went from there. “I don’t know if it was because it was the first real classic I read and it’s just been in my head ever since,” she says. King started outlining that night, quickly choosing Pride and Prejudice as her template. “She was doing The Wizard of Oz at a music festival. “I was chatting with a friend… and she mentioned that she was working on a retelling,” she says.
If I had my druthers, it’d just be, like, well-adjusted, clever people just floating in space, just bantering.”Ī conversation with a friend and fellow writer gave her the prompt that she needed, King says. “But plot is always the sticking point for me. “Having worked at a show, I had it in the back of my head that it would just be a great setting for a story,” she says. King spent some time in that world herself a few years ago and knew she wanted to use that environment as a setting for a book – she just didn’t know what story she wanted to tell. Love’s the last thing on her mind when she locks eyes with Will Darcy across the crowded club, yet the spark between them is undeniable-that is, until she overhears the uptight wealth manager call her merely “tolerable.”īennet is determined to write Darcy off, but once their besties fall head-over-heels, they’re thrown into each other’s orbit again and again.Austin author Vanessa King has just released her debut novel, A Certain Appeal, which is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set in the world of modern burlesque in New York City. Now an executive assistant by day and stage kitten by night, she’s discovered a second home with the performers at Meryton, Manhattan’s top-tier burlesque venue. A sparkling contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque, perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Roommate.Īfter a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York.
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