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Jarrod Shusterman and Sofia Lapuente on Retro
The Write Process42 minutes
Jarrod Shusterman is the New York Times and international bestselling author of Dry, Roxy and Retro. His collaboration in Gleanings, the fourth installment of the bestselling Scythe trilogy, is being adapted for the screen by Universal. He writes for the screen and teaches courses at UCLA in creative writing.
Sofía Lapuente is an author, screenwriter, professor at UCLA, and avid world traveler who immigrated from Spain to the United States to realize her dream of storytelling. Jarrod and Sofía have a passion for collaborative storytelling across many mediums, with love and multiculturalism as an ethos, and enjoy traveling the world and learning new languages. Since then, she has worked as a producer and casting director on an Emmy nominated show. They've received starred reviews, from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Blooklist and more!
In the novel Retro, Things were never supposed to get this out of hand. When Luna receives an opportunity to win a scholarship to the college of her dreams, she’s all in. It’s called the Retro Challenge, where contestants live without modern technology. At first, the challenge is fun. But then things get dangerous. Kids start disappearing, including Luna’s friends. There are voices in the woods. Markings on the trees. Secrets. Lies. Betrayal. The weight of her family on her shoulders. There’s so much on the line for Luna, and she’s falling in love with the last guy she expected. Unless she can figure out the truth behind who’s sabotaging the challenge, the next person to disappear may be Luna herself.
Sofía Lapuente is an author, screenwriter, professor at UCLA, and avid world traveler who immigrated from Spain to the United States to realize her dream of storytelling. Jarrod and Sofía have a passion for collaborative storytelling across many mediums, with love and multiculturalism as an ethos, and enjoy traveling the world and learning new languages. Since then, she has worked as a producer and casting director on an Emmy nominated show. They've received starred reviews, from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Blooklist and more!
In the novel Retro, Things were never supposed to get this out of hand. When Luna receives an opportunity to win a scholarship to the college of her dreams, she’s all in. It’s called the Retro Challenge, where contestants live without modern technology. At first, the challenge is fun. But then things get dangerous. Kids start disappearing, including Luna’s friends. There are voices in the woods. Markings on the trees. Secrets. Lies. Betrayal. The weight of her family on her shoulders. There’s so much on the line for Luna, and she’s falling in love with the last guy she expected. Unless she can figure out the truth behind who’s sabotaging the challenge, the next person to disappear may be Luna herself.