And as I was leaving your room, Mary caught me. So I went to your room to spray your perfume on my handkerchief, another silly trick to make me feel like you were here.

I miss your perfume drifting off your hair when you turn to laugh at me or your scent radiating on your skin when we walk through the garden. I wish it was something I could save and share with the world so I could tell the universe: this is what it’s like this is how it feels when you fall. I wish it was something I could catch with a net or place in a book. But never have I come across anything so painfully beautiful as that kiss. I’ve seen so much, America, had access to the corners of our planet. Did I ever tell you how I felt that night? It wasn’t just getting my first kiss ever it was getting to have that first kiss with you. I suppose I should say first kisses, but what I mean is the second, the one I was actually invited to give you. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want peanut butter fingerprints on my desk. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy seasons and lazy weekends. She was so anxious about getting back in the palace to tell him how she really feel. Thanks to her sister who made her see the light. A portly gentleman chooses his bride over who uses white truffle oil the best.America realized that she really loves Maxon and is so afraid to say it to him. The series is sometimes described as The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games – if you could create a reality show/dystopian hybrid for TV, what stories would you mash up?įlavor of Love meets Iron Chef. It’s been out for so long but they still reference that, so bravo to the gang at HarperTeen for making such a stellar video! What did you think of The Selection with Barbies video?Īmazing! And it became a fan favorite, too, which is great.

The only person who has to choose it America, so I’ll leave it to her. If you had to choose between Aspen or Maxon, who would you pick? That they turned out sort of that way is an adorable little perk. But I did pitch that the covers should be red, white, and blue once. Once upon a time, The One ended much differently, but the way it is now is the way it should beĭo you get to choose the colour of the girl’s dress on the cover? When I realized I’d gotten her wrong, I went back and rewrote the first book, which changed the trajectory of the other two. In the very beginning I was putting words in America’s mouth, and I’d made some decisions for her in the process. We talk to Kiera Cass, author of everyone’s favourite guilty pleasure series The Selectionĭid you always know how the series was going to end or did it change over time?īasically.

Two hot boys, one girl and a lot of dreamy ballgowns.

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