How Author Yvonne Ventresca’s Writing Impacts New Jersey Readers

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When Hoboken’s Symposia Book Club members read Yvonne Ventresca’s Black Flowers, White Lies the group was thrilled to find Hoboken on every page. Yvonne’s suspenseful novels for teens place deception and betrayal in familiar places and the result is an especially fun read for locals . Read on to learn about this successful author’s approach to writing. Photo Credit: Yvonne Ventresca New Jersey Realities Grounds Her When Yvonne Ventresca wrote her award-winning young adult (YA) novels Black Flowers, White Lies, and Pandemic , she set them both in real geographic locations she knows well. Black Flowers, White Lies is solidly placed in Hoboken while her recently re-released novel Pandemic takes place in her current home of Chatham, NJ with the town name changed to Portico. Some of the place descriptions are so crystal clear that readers may find themselves imagining a Yvonne Ventresca-led walking tour of the various settings where pivotal scenes take place. Photo Credit: Yvonne Ventresca Yvonne incorporates real locations in her writing to root the fictional stories she invents into recognizable realities she can see on a map. She finds her creative work to fabricate characters and the dramatic circumstances they encounter is made easier by the establishment of the known parameters that real locations provide. She can still take liberties to service the story — she added a fictional animal shelter and cemetery to the Hoboken of Black Flowers, White Lies — but the general world-building is already done. Read More: Symposia Bookstore: A Hidden Gem on Washington Street A Tale Set in Hoboken Ghosts — sometimes from familiar folklore and other times invented for the purpose of the story — appear in tangible locations in author Yvonne Ventresca’s YA thriller Black Flowers, White Lies . She took as good fortune the fact that Hoboken has a slew of ghost stories documented and awaiting her literary use of them. The bride who has haunted Hoboken’s Brass Rail since 1904 gets a mention as do the spirits of Arthur’s Tavern legend. These oft-told tales are masterfully folded into Yvonne’s narrative so that a reader outside of […]

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