How I Write Novels

Casting Celebrities to Develop Your Characters

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
2 min readMay 9, 2022

1 Trick I’ve Used To Write 5 Novels

Writers dream of having their books made into films. But why wait for Hollywood?

When I wrote my psychological thriller Fierce Little Thing, about a group of kids raised in a cult, I cast the main characters (in my mind, at least) as child actors I’d seen grow up…

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Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

She/her. New York Times bestseller / Author of five novels including: Fierce Little Thing, June, and Bittersweet. https://linktr.ee/MirandaBW