Utilizing Senstivity Readers: A Conversation with Becky Albertalli

Contributed by Becky Albertalli, Author
Tell us about your upcoming (and hotly anticipated!)
novel.My second novel, The
Upside of Unrequited (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, April 2017), is a loose companion to my debut, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. It’s about a chubby, anxious, seventeen-year-old J ewish girl named Molly, who’s falling in love after a long line of unrequited crushes.Although this is an Own Voices book, you worked with twelve sensitivity readers on the
manuscript. Can you share a bit about that experience?