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A Modern Retelling, Eunuch to Talent Scout, meet Hawk

May 9, 2013 by Shaylene King In: Book Updates Tagged: author, Esther, modern retelling, talent scout, tween fiction, tween novel

Picture compliments of fifth grader Wyatt Pearlmutter

Standing in front of me, blocking the sun with his silhouette, was  this—man-boy.  A man-boy is what Calliope and I call guys we think are cute and totally too old for us but not really old—old,  like our parents. Take for example, Matt Damon, who did all of the Bourne Identity movies. Cute. But no Zac Efron! As I was creating Hawk’s character, I pictured him in his mid to late twenties, with a certain mystery about him. He is not a man of many words. He does his job and then fades into the background. Every so often Liberty does… 

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