I’m hoping the kids will enjoy the story enough that they’ll rise up to the level of the writing and to the vocabulary. I try to tell it in such a way that kids will enjoy it, but adults will enjoy it as well.

“I write as well as I can and as sophisticated as I can. “I don’t write down to the kids,” he said. While it’s targeted to younger readers, the strong plot and engaging twists and turns prove just as entertaining for adults. More: Malaprop's sails with woman pirate, explores race relations in Charlestonīeatty expertly weaves the history of the region into a heart-pounding tale shaped by lore, magic and suspense. It’s about prejudice and how people view other people that they don’t understand.”Īsheville Movie Guys: Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply But there are multiple levels underneath that as well where the story is about belonging and identity and our perception of the world. “There’s a lot of physical action that occurs. “I’m hoping it’s a book that at certain levels you can read as a very intense, very immersive experience,” continued Beatty. She has to identify this and determine how to resist the evilness in her own society.”

She was born and raised and entrenched in a society that is not good. “The leader of her clan is not a good person not a good leader. “Her race has been corrupted and has been declining and withering,” Beatty explained. But she also faces the threat of evil within her own kind. She views humans as evil, as they cut down trees and destroy the natural environment of the Great Smoky Mountains. She’s a young girl who is a member of the Faeren clan. Now Willa is coming into full view with this book set for release on July 10.

Willa the wood