The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

At the time, my favourite models for “understated but deeply scary ghost story” were technically middle-grade books, so I started with about 30,000 words it took a number of helpful readers – family, dear friends, fellow writers on Twitter – and a few drafts to flesh it out to the point of viability. I first had the idea for this story back in 2006, but it took me until 2013 to figure out how to write it – both in terms of getting the pieces of the story to crystallize and in the sense of pushing through all the anxiety and doubt that comes with putting pen to paper and hacking your way through to the end of a project.

How long did it take you to write this young adult supernatural thriller? How many people did you send it to? Once it was accepted, what was the process to have it published? How long did it take?Ī. Can you please tell me your publishing story. The Dark Beneath the Ice is a story about ghosts and things that go bump in the night. As soon as it arrived at Chapters, I tracked it down to see it in the wild for myself, and fortunately nobody paid any attention to the weird lady tearing up and taking selfies in the teen fiction section. Thanks so much! Having it out there in the world is the very best kind of thrill and also deeply surreal – I’ve wanted to write books since I was five years old, so it’s literally a lifelong dream come true. How exciting is it to see your name on a book? Have you discovered on store shelves yet? What was your reaction? Thank you so much for agreeing to speak with me and congratulations on your first book The Dark Beneath The Ice ($24.99, Raincoast Books, Sourcebooks Fire).

The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé