READERS GUIDE
The
Roughest
Draft
Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
Discussion Questions
On the night their partnership split, both Nathan and Katrina shared fault for what happened. Who was more to blame, or did they share equal responsibility?
Nathan and Katrina have opposite complexes with respect to their work—Nathan can’t pull away until it consumes him, while Katrina is afraid to engage with the craft she loves out of fear of losing it. Do you identify with either of these?
How do you view Harriet’s friendship with Katrina in the past and the present? Should Harriet have been more loyal and supportive of her friend, or is honesty the most supportive approach? Do you know someone like Harriet who always tells friends the truth?
Nathan and Katrina come down on different sides of the question of the artist’s relationship with creation. Can the artist ever completely separate themself from their art? Does art spring from life, or does life imitate art?
Do you understand or sympathize with Katrina staying with Chris for the years she did?
How did the flashbacks change your experience of the present-day story? Did you like reading the flashbacks or the present more?
Did anything surprise you in Katrina and Nathan’s writing process or the process of publication? Do you think of books differently now?
How much do you think the authors’ own experiences informed this story?
Do you think Katrina and Nathan were talking to each other through their characters, even when they insisted they weren’t?
If you were an author like Katrina and Nathan, what type of book would you write?
Photo by Sue Grubman
Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka met and fell in love in high school. Austin went on to graduate from Harvard, while Emily graduated from Princeton. Together, they are the authors of several novels about romance for teens and adults. Now married, they live in Los Angeles, where they continue to take daily inspiration from their own love story.
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