I recently was gifted a review by another indie author, Elizabeth Weigandt. She wrote Queen Bee, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. We were acquainted at a local SCBWI event, and I was immediately taken with the subject matter — the title Watership Down was invoked more than once. And to me, Queen Bee is a spiritual sister to that, albeit without much of the backstory and history. While all that certainly has it’s merits — and Ms. Weigandt did a fair amount of research into bees to approach this book — one of the many things Queen Bee does wonderfully is jump right into the action.
And now Queen Bee has been shortlisted to be an animated feature, while Elizabeth is quietly working on a sequel. Can’t wait!