Her young adult fantasy novel Grim Lovelies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) was featured in the Winter 2019 - 2020 Indie Next List for Reading Groups and is followed by the sequel. Shepherd’s sequel, Her Dark Curiosity, is due out in January.įor more information, contact Brevard College Associate Professor of English Jubal Tiner at 828.577. Megan’s second young adult series begins with The Cage (HarperCollins, 2015), a New York Times bestselling title, and is followed by The Hunt and The Gauntlet. The book has received numerous accolades from the American Booksellers and recently had its film rights optioned by Paramount Pictures, with Fake Empire producing. School Library Journal describes it as a “dark novel blends the basic premise of the original with new insights, characters, and terror.” Moreau and told from the point of view of the mad doctor’s 16-year-old daughter. Her first novel, The Madman’s Daughter, is based on H.G. Her time in Senegal – as well as abroad in Costa Rica, Spain, Scotland, Luxembourg, and Switzerland – heavily influence her writing. A longtime fan of children’s literature, she first took an interest in writing as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, West Africa, where she collected oral folktales and compiled them into an illustrated book for use in local schools.
Shepherd, author of The Madman’s Daughter trilogy and the forthcoming The Cage trilogy will speak about her work and her road to publication. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Reserve Dining Room of the College’s Myer’s Dining Hall. Brevard College’s English Department Visiting Writers’ Series will present a reading by young adult book author Megan Shepherd at 7:30 p.m.
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