...I WON. So I'm hoping I'm able to bring my camera and film the interview for you guys! It all depends on whether Maria is okay with it, so I hope she is!
The interview will be on 17th August and I plan to attend the signing and event at Ultimo Libnrary that day, so if you see me, say hi! I'll be the short one with (possibly) two braids and wearing a black-and-white striped top.
My questions for the interview:
The tour:
- How are you liking Australia? I know you've tried our Tim Tams.
- What are the sort of reactions you were expecting when you decided to tour Australia?
- Have you had any interesting or weird fan experiences?
- Is Valek secretly a ninja?
- Where did you get the idea for Valek? Is he bits of people you know or someone you'd like to know?
- When you have characters in your books die, do you feel sad, or is it like a sort of inevitable knowledge and you've accepted it?
- Was the ending arc of the Insider series set since the first book, or was something that evolved as the story progressed? Basically, did you plan the ending or did it just appear inside your head?
- If you had the chance to write another book for the Insider series, would you do it to please your readers or decide not to? The same goes for the Study and Glass series.
- Is world-building for the Study and Glass series hard? Did you research anything about magic before hand?
- Since the Study and Glass world is so large, is it hard to keep track of characters and information?
- Has your editor caught any big mistakes in the manuscript?
- You teach a Writing Popular Fiction course at Seton Hill University. What's the #1 piece of advice you give to your students?
- The Study series had such a great, unique concept – about food tasters and poison aficionados. What first sparked your interest in this odd profession, and what sort of research did you do into the art of poison? No taste-testing, I hope!
- The Insider series is a sci-fi dystopia, which I know has gotten very popular in this year and the last. What inspired you t o write it?
- You have a new series starting called Healer, with the first book scheduled for January 2012 called A Touch of Power. Can you tell us a bit about this new YA series?
- All of your series have been for the Young Adult readership so far. What’s the appeal of writing for the teen set, and would you ever consider writing an adult novel?
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By the way, I think since it’s an e-zine they require you to be a journalist for the day meaning to not record the interview but to write it out. :) Just heads up! And you won again to interview an author. Grats!
Of course I will write it out, but I also wanted to film it for the blog and to make sure I have all the answers and don't spend a gazillion hours writing them all down. :)
I'm curious to know if the ending arc of the Insider series had been set since the first book, or if it was something that evolved as the story progressed (e.g. Outside In).
'Ending arc' as in the way Outside In ended? SO basically if she'd planned it all out before or it just came to her?
I want to know (although I'm see her on Tuesday) is if she had the chance to write a third or fourth etc. That the publishers wanted, would she do it or strike the opportunity straight away to please her readers that have been waiting for news to hear of a third? ...something along these lines lol
Congrats on scoring the interview! Hope this helps:
Questions for Maria V. Snyder:
• The ‘Study’ series had such a great, unique concept – about food tasters and poison aficionados. What first sparked your interest in this odd profession, and what sort of research did you do into the art of poison (no taste-testing, I hope?!)
• You have a new series starting called ‘Healer’, with the first book scheduled for January 2012 called ‘A Touch of Power’. Can you tell us a bit about this new YA series?
• ‘A Touch of Power’ seems somewhat similar to your ‘Study’ series in that both of them are about suffering for others . . . why is this a common thread that you keep coming back to and exploring?
• All of your series’ have been for the Young Adult readership so far. What’s the appeal of writing for the teen set, and would you ever consider writing an adult novel?
And another one:
• You teach a 'Writing Popular Fiction' course at Seton Hill University. What's the No.#1 piece of advice you give to your students?
oh congrats on winning. that is so awesome. and i love your questions (really unique)
x nomes
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