I grew up in a pretty big Japanese community but didn’t know until later in my life that Japan actually still had a royal family. When the concept came to me, it made a lot of sense that a Japanese princess YA book should exist in the world. I think Tokyo Ever After felt really needed. And growing up, I never saw myself represented in princess media. We just don’t have a lot of Asian princesses, period. I think Tokyo Ever After was a natural genesis. I have genre hopped, haven’t I? But when you look at my work, there is a build there. You’re quite the literary chameleon – your first book was a psychological thriller, your second a historical Japanese fantasy and now this effervescent contemporary romance with a timeless “I’m really a princess” trope. In her third novel, Tokyo Ever After (Flatiron Books, May 25, 2021), a California teen turns out to be a Japanese princess. She is the author of Empress of All Seasons and We’ll Never Be Apart. Before she became a writer, she was an entomologist, a candlemaker, a florist, and most recently, a teacher. When Emiko Jean isn’t writing, she’s reading.
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