
When I was little, I would dictate stories to my babysitter. PW spoke with Condie from her home in Utah about leaving Matched behind, tackling middle grade for the first time, and what fans can expect from her in the coming years.ĭid you always want to be a writer? What made you choose this career path? Cedar meets quirky and resourceful Leo, who gets her a job at the Summerlost festival soon the two are caught up in the mystery of a hometown actress who died decades before. After years of successfully writing dystopian YA, Condie has now tried her hand at middle grade with Summerlost, the story of a girl named Cedar who, after the deaths of her father and brother, must adjust to a new home in a small Utah town. Author Ally Condie is best-known for her Matched trilogy, a futuristic love triangle about a teenage girl whose Society chooses everyone’s mate for them, but who falls in love with someone else.
