daughter (in 2012) had the following book idea and suggested a collaboration with her mother:
"...What if, when a book closed,
the characters still lived in their world as people with interests and ideas different from
the roles they played onstage?' And what if a prince in a fairytale was desperate to
get out of his fairytale, but couldn't get a reader to see him as anything but the prince
in the story...until a teenage girl with a crush on that character noticed him trying to
communicate with her?"
And it happened! At least in the imagination of this mother/daughter writing team.
The book Between the Lines was rated by readers at GoodReads at 3.58 Stars.
(Small Great Things was rated 4.35 Stars).
The book tells the tale in separate voices of 16 year old Prince Oliver and 15 year old Delilah,
a solitary teenager who is obsessed with the Prince and the book; Delilah works to free the Prince from the pages. In 2015 a second book from the Between the Lines series was
released as Off the Page -- Delilah and Oliver are united but find they are not allowed to re write
their story, they discover what it takes to have a happy ending.