Interview: Michelle Hodkin

How many of you have heard of YallFest? How many are attending? It's a one day book festival in Charleston, South Carolina. For more information, check out the official website! Each monday and friday leading up to the festival, I, along with a bunch of other bloggers, will be posting author interviews to help with promotion for the festival. Today, please welcome Michelle Hodkin! She is the amazing author of the Mara Dyer series, which I utterly adore! So sad that the last book got pushed back to next summer! Check out my review of the second book in the series The Evolution of Mara Dyer here!

Author Interview:

Q. Describe your book in 5 words

A. Romeo and Juliet meets Hitchcock

Q. What is the hardest line to write- the first or the last?

A. I spend a lot of time thinking about my first lines. A lot of time. Too much time. Luckily the last lines usually come to me as I write.

Q. What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?

A. What I love about YA is that I don't have to choose a genre. I can blend elements and mess with conventions from all of them—horror, mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, whatever. I'm not sure I could choose a favorite, if I were ever told that I had to. And my reading is all over the place, but right now I'm reading a lot of old school sci-fi and fantasy, with some literary fiction thrown in.

Q. What one young adult novel do you wish you had when you were a teen? Why?

A. The Magicians by Lev Grossman. It's not YA, but it is about a teenager who reminds me of my teen self. And maybe also my adult self. Anyway. I basically push the book into the hands of everyone I meet. It's just that good.

Q. What are you working on now?

A. A secret project that is secret. But I'm wildly excited about it, and I think my readers will be too.

Author Bio:

Not buying the pirate story? How about this:

I grew up in South Florida, went to college in New York, and attended law school in Michigan. When I'm not writing, I can usually be found prying strange objects from the jaws of one of my three pets. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was my first novel.

You Can Find Her At:

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Synopsis:

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer:

Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. 

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed.

There is.

She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been
through, she can fall in love.

She’s wrong.

You Can Find It At:

Books & Books
Indiebound
Barnes & Noble
Chapters Indigo
Amazon
Books-A-Million
The Book Depository
Simon & Schuster

The Evolution of Mara Dyer:

Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past.

She can’t.

She used to think her problems were all in her head.

They aren’t.

She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets.

She’s wrong.

In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly. What will become of Mara Dyer next?

You Can Find It At:

Books & Books
Indiebound
Barnes & Noble
Chapters Indigo
Amazon
Books-A-Million
The Book Depository
Simon & Schuster

The Retribution of Mara Dyer:

The release date is set for June 10, 2014, or so I believe. The original date was October 22, 2013, but it was pushed back for reasons I don't know. (If anyone does, I'd love to be enlightened) So far, there is no synopsis.

Do you love the Mara Dyer series? Let me know in the comments!