Author Interview:
What one thing do you need to have when you write?
Lip balm.
Describe your book in 5 words.
FANGIRL
Earnest,
snowy, swoony, minty, bookish.
What is the hardest line to write- the first or the last?
THE FIRST!
The whole first page is a nightmare. I want people to just skip it. And I
always end u rewriting it.
Best writing tip you ever received?
“Just
finish your book.”
What one young adult novel do you wish you had when you were
a teen? Why?
Homecoming by Cynthia
Voigt. I think it would have made me feel less alone.
Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.
Where's your favorite place to write?
At
coffeeshops. In giant overstuffed chairs.
What are you working on now?
I’m
revising my adult novel, Landline, which comes out in spring 2014, and playing
with a romantic/political/tragicomic fantasy.
What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?
I write
mostly contemporary. I read mostly fantasy.
At what point in the development of an idea do you know that
it will become a full-length novel?
Author Bio:
Rainbow Rowell writes books.
Sometimes she writes about adults (Attachments and Landline).
Sometimes she writes about teenagers (Eleanor & Park and Fangirl).
But she always writes about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like they’re screwing up. And people who fall in love.
When she’s not writing, Rainbow is reading comic books, planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that don’t really matter in the big scheme of things.
She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.
Rainbow Rowell writes books.
Sometimes she writes about adults (Attachments and Landline).
Sometimes she writes about teenagers (Eleanor & Park and Fangirl).
But she always writes about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like they’re screwing up. And people who fall in love.
When she’s not writing, Rainbow is reading comic books, planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that don’t really matter in the big scheme of things.
She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.
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Newest Release-Fangirl:
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . .
But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
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