![]() ![]() Were they happy? Married? Did they have children? Did they get that dream job? I thought it would be neat to construct a series around a group of classmates - incorporating their shared past with the present.Īt around the same time, I woke up with the brutal rape scene in my head. I knew what had become of some of them, but wondered about the others. Q: What inspired “The Yearbook Series: Gina and Mike?”Ī: I had been reading notes written by classmates in an old high school yearbook. And I think that being an author has made me a better journalist. ![]() ![]() I think that being an editor has certainly helped make me a better writer. Q: Is it difficult to move from a nonfiction to fiction mindset?Ī: It’s not difficult for me. Here, Andrews details her reason, method and goal of the book. ![]() Her recent work, “ The Yearbook Series: Gina & Mike,” depicts the aftermath of a teenage girl who is brutally raped and hides her attack from her former high school boyfriend for two decades. Today, Andrews - a 20-year journalist and the assistant managing editor of features and niche publications and social media coordinator for the York Daily Record/Sunday News - is also a published author. “We were third-graders with attitudes and we always beat the bad guys,” she said via email. Buffy Andrews was a little kid when she started writing stories about her friends and herself in plots where they saved the day. ![]()
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