The Mystery of Katie from INVISIBLE EMMIE (spoiler alert!)
Lately, I’ve been getting quite a few questions regarding the character Katie from INVISIBLE EMMIE. Before I go into it, if you haven’t yet read the book, this contains MEGA spoilers! Proceed only if you have read it or aren’t planning to read it (although I highly recommend you do 🙂 ).
Readers have asked me: where did Katie go? After the story, she simply disappears into oblivion and doesn’t reappear in any of the other books.
Actually, she DOES disappear. Quite literally.
You see, Katie doesn’t actually exist. She is entirely in Emmie’s imagination (and sketchbook). She is the ideal girl to Emmie: an alter ego (someone Emmie aspires to be), as well as an imaginary take-charge friend who guides Emmie when she is feeling upset, scared, or anxious.
So, toward the end of the book, when Emmie begins to discover her voice and starts to make new friends, she realizes she no longer needs Katie. That’s when Katie “disappears” and is replaced by something new to to Emmie — confidence.
I hope that makes sense! It’s definitely a twist ending, and one that trips up many readers.
For a synopsis of the book (or to order it to re-read), click here!
I can’t believe I didn’t realize this until the third time I read the book. And of course the books didn’t start having alliterative titles until Just Jamie. Why’d you start making the titles alliterative?
I hope this isn’t weird, but…have you ever been contacted by a studio that was interested in making a movie based on this series? Personally I think Truly Tyler would work best as a movie.
Great questions.
1. I don’t actually like alliteration — can you believe it? That’s why the first two titles didn’t have it. I was just looking for girls’ names that flowed nicely with the adjectives (“Invisible” and “Positively”). But by the third book, I was using existing characters with established names and had to work backwards with the titles. I had to think of adjectives to go along with their names. The only ones that worked were alliterations. Hope that makes sense.
2. There is something brewing, but I am sworn to secrecy. 🙂