What names do you call your sister?
A) Adopted
B) The lesser loved child
C) Wicked Witch of the West
D) Sister? What Sister? I pretend she doesn’t exist ever since she stole my prom date.

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Names My Sisters Call Me is the new book by Megan Crane, author of Frenemies and frequent visitor to this blog. Go here to read our 2006 mutual Beatrice interview which confusingly starts with the conclusion but which is interesting anyway because we went to the same college at different times and went to grad school in the same subject and ended up with very similar careers. And go here to my blog from long ago to read her boyfriend list!

Names My Sisters Call me (buy it here) is a "beach read" about a newly engaged woman who tries to use her engagement party as a way to reconcile her estranged sisters. After all, they're all grown-ups now, right? But it turns out that family ghosts aren't easily vanquished, and neither are first loves. Reconnecting the sisters also means reexamining every choice Courtney has made in the past six years, right down to the man she's about to marry.

Here, she submits to my Disreputable History-based questions, in which she reveals the secret to walking in extremely high heels:

1. Tell me the sneakiest thing you ever did.
I went to summer camp for years, which honed my sneaky skills. I was a master of getting in and out of the cabin in the dark of night, and while I was not the ringleader of rule-breaking missions to raid the camp kitchen (that would be my infinitely more sneaky friend Holly), I definitely held my own.

2. Tell me the sneakiest thing that happens in your new book.
Courtney, the main character, tells her fiance a lie to sneak off and see her ex-boyfriend sing in a club.

3. Are you a prankster? Tell me a story.
Most of my pranks involved camp shenanigans; the ones that didn't I'm advised not to speak of without benefit of counsel...

4. Were you in any clubs or societies in high school? Did any of those club activities make it into your novels?
I was in student government, and Chorale. I don't think either of those have made it into any of my novels. That's probably because I don't exactly have fond memories of high school; coincidentally, neither do my characters!

5. Do you consider yourself a feminist? Why, or why not?
I absolutely consider myself a feminist, with great pride. Feminism is about thinking women should be equal to men. I think we should be; therefore, I'm a feminist.

6. How does your answer to question 5 show up in your new book?
I think feminism allows us to imagine all kinds of different women doing different things, instead of just a few shopworn stereotypes. There are four intriguing women in my new book: Beverly Cassel and her three adult daughters. They couldn't be more different from one another: an office manager, a concert cellist, a professor, and a bartender/artist. They're all feminists, too, because if it weren't for feminism, none of them would have the professions they hold.

7. The club in my book is called The Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds. If you were to found a secret society, what would it be called, and what would its mission be?
It would be called the Society of Stilettos and it would be dedicated to teaching women everywhere that they can, in fact, walk in high heels if they would only lean back and walk on their heels. (Seriously.)

P.S. Here's Megan's blog!