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Pintip and Love Dunn | Squid Game Meets Peter Pan with Folktales From Thailand
Author Guest / October 31, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE LOTUS FLOWER CHAMPION   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? THE LOTUS FLOWER CHAMPION, by mother-daughter authors Pintip Dunn and Love Dunn, is pitched as Squid Game meets Peter Pan with folktales from Thailand. It’s a YA fantasy thriller about a girl with OCD who is marooned with 11 other people on a remote island that looks like paradise but feels like hell, due to the machinations of a scientist desperate to unlock their latent psychic abilities.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? A family vacation in beautiful Koh Samui, where the craggy islands and turquoise waters hurts the heart, and burns the skin, because we’re not meant to brush up against so much beauty.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? 100 percent!   5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Passionate, kind, resilient.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Love writes way faster than Pintip. In their daily word sprints, she beats her mother, every time.   7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Wait until…