The six authors teamed up on “Blackout,” a romance about Black teens during a power outage in New York.
This combination of photos show, from left, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Yoon, co-authors of the novel"Whiteout." – Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She's an organizer, a former teacher and a founder of the grassroots publishing movement We Need Diverse Books.
Clayton thought of a group narrative after seeing the 2019 romantic comedy “Let It Snow” and wanted to create a story centered on the lives, and loves, of Black teens. She brought in not just Woodfolk and Jackson, who agreed despite having a background in thriller writing, but fellow bestsellers Nicola Yoon , Nic Stone and Angie Thomas, whose “The Hate U Give” is among the most talked about young adult books of recent years.
The book's editor at the HarperCollins imprint Quill Tree Books, Rosemary Brosnan, kept her own records. She set up an Excel spreadsheet and called it “Whiteout — Continuity and Consistency," through which she tracked “character details, setting, time stamps, character intersections” and other parts of the narrative. She needed another chart to make sure she knew every scene's location.
“One of the things we realized from ‘Blackout’ was that people were sort of obsessed by who was writing which story and were thinking of it as an anthology rather than an actual book co-written by six people,” Jackson says. “So there was an executive decision not to say who wrote each story.”
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