Loading ...Interview, Chat and Contest with Author Sarah Rees Brennan
A big welcome to our readers today! Be sure to read to the end of the interview to find out how to WIN the fabulous prizes being offered up.
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Interview:
Hi Sarah!
Welcome to Bitten by Books, we are excited to have you here today!
I would like to thank you taking the time to join us for the question and answer session with our readers. It has been very interesting to get to know more about you and what makes you tick as a writer! Readers, if you haven’t done so already please stop by and get your copy of Sarah’s newest book The Demon’s Lexicon
BBB: What are the most challenging and the most rewarding aspects of writing?
SRB: The most challenging, I think, is just forcing yourself to write when confronted with laziness or fear or a blank page or a tricky plotline: you don’t tell yourself you won’t write, but you do say ‘I won’t write now’ and then the time stretches on, and it’s far too easy to let it get away from you.
And then the most rewarding is when you do force yourself to write, and there’s that moment when you realise you haven’t even been thinking, that everything has been flowing under your fingers like a tapestry unrolling in brilliant colours, and you’re so happy.
Of course the next day you go back and look at that tapestry, and you think to yourself ‘dear god, what? Explosions are NOWHERE in the chapter plan…’ but while it lasts, it’s the best feeling in the world.
BBB: Do you consider your writing fantasy or urban fantasy and do you think it is important to distinguish between the two?
SRB: I write urban fantasy and - well, yes, I do think it’s important to distinguish between the two. Which is not to say I don’t love and wouldn’t write high fantasy, but many people think that all fantasy is wizards and unicorns in a far-off land, and what I really love about urban fantasy (and what I’d like people to think about the books I’m writing now) is that you can have a wizard sitting two seats down from you at a bar, having a packet of crisps, or a unicorn chasing you through a bad part of town. I love all the excitement and the reality you can get when you move the magic next door.
BBB: Are you attracted to the Nicks or the Alans and why?
SRB: Oh, the good, bookworm guys or the mad, bad and dangerous to even pass in the street kind? Well… I do meet more of the Alan type, since I am fond of bookshops, but I have to say it depends. Nobody really fits neatly into a mould - not the people you meet, or the characters in a book, not if it’s a good book. The beautiful, unreliable guy might never lie to you… whereas there could be a whole world of secrets behind the nice guy’s eyes.
BBB: I want to hear more about “Hitching rides in fire engines” while living in New York. Care to explain?
SRB: Well, my flatmate at the time was a vegan, and a fabulous girl. I was happy to eat vegetarian in the flat as she wanted, but occasionally I got a huge craving. So sometimes I went down the local fire station where I sat and ate my bacon sandwich. I explained why I was there, and they completely gave me permission! They seemed to think of me as some kind of strange Irish pet. And a couple of times, when the weather was beastly awful, they gave me a lift home in a fire engine. I think this is the very definition of a smokin’ hot ride…
BBB: How much research do you do for your books? How much of it actually gets used in the finished book?
SRB: Oh you make me confess a sad truth. You do SO MUCH research, and then hardly any of it ends up in the book. I remember talking to the local mechanic at length about cars, as my hero works part-time in a garage, and saying monumentally stupid things like ‘No, I don’t have a car. IMAGINE I have a car’ as the poor mechanics said sadly ‘We don’t fix imaginary cars’ and then all the technical jargon I’d picked up just sounded incredibly dry on the page. I’m assured this happens to everyone. Pages and pages of research adds up to about one or two lines on the page. But they sound like you know what you’re talking about (I hope!)
BBB: How do you keep track of your world building?
SRB: Through careful, meticulous notes, a near-flawless memory and a conscientiously kept-up whiteboard. Any reports you have heard of me flying desperately down to check the first book or crawling under my bed chewing through dustballs to get to crumpled-up notes are dirty lies.
BBB: If you could be any literary character, who would you be?
SRB: Elizabeth Bennet. And not for the Darcy-related reasons you think: I just love her. I love that she always has a witty retort, that she’s really flawed and really engaging, that we sympathise with her even when she’s doing the wrong thing and adore her for doing the right thing. If I was fictional, I’d want to be like her - so wonderful I was almost real.
BBB: What do you feel are the benefits of the new electronic readers such as Kindle 2 or Sony Digital Book Reader
SRB: It certainly makes my packing easier! I usually bring at least six books on any trip, and then I end up buying six more, and my lovely slim Sony ereader is a welcome change for my aching shoulders! And I think that reading is so wonderful, it’s great for people to be able to read books whichever way they prefer. That said, I could never forsake paper books. For one thing, my favourite place to read is the bath, it would be awfully unsafe!
BBB: What impact do electronic readers create on the bottom line for authors in the end? Do you feel they have a negative impact or positive, or no impact at all that you can see?
SRB: I am not entirely sure. I feel there is an impact, but it’s still a new and developing field, and I’m not sure whether it will benefit writers by giving readers a new medium to choose them from, or encouraging book piracy, which is a pretty disastrous business, especially when most writers don’t make much anyway.
BBB: Who or what inspires you to write?
SRB: Almost everything, in answer to the ‘what.’ Documentaries about wolves. Random essays I find on the internet. Myths and legends and a snippet of conversation behind me in the line at the supermarket. In answer to the ‘who’ - amongst others, my weird and wonderful family, including my brother the professional poker player and my mother who writes sex columns, my weird and wonderful friends like my best friend the unofficial Queen of Slovenia, and perhaps most of all my flatmate Natasha who wakes me with tea when I need to write long days. ‘You are my god,’ I say to her, clawing at the cup. She knows it’s just the caffeine addiction talking…
BBB: I understand that The Demon’s Lexicon is the first book in a trilogy. Do you have any other series or stand alones in the works?
SRB: I am co-writing a standalone book with a friend (not fantasy) and I do have several other ideas for books, but no definite plans yet. I am crossing my fingers hard that this series does well enough for me to make plans!
BBB: Do you have any stray plot bunnies running around in your head and do you think something may come of them?
SRB: I do have several other ideas for books, but I can’t pick one yet! Ghosts, vampires, imaginary friends and banshees are all queuing up in my head, and occasionally fights break out and the head of the line changes. And who knows, they may all be skipped out by an unruly but irresistible newcomer…
BBB: Outside of writing, what is the most interesting job that you have ever had?
SRB: Being the Angel of Death. I can’t explain… they made me sign a confidentiality agreement. Think of the weirdest thing you can think of for a totally untrained eighteen year old to do involving mortality, then make it weirder, and you may have guessed something close to the truth.
BBB: If your series had a theme song, what would it be?
SRB: Danny Elfman’s The Little Things. It has a great, actiony beat and heart to it as well. ‘Let the headlines wait, armies hesitate - I can deal with fate. But not the little things (you do).’
BBB: If you could pick one of your characters to have dinner with, who would it be and why?
SRB: Jamie, definitely. He’s the hapless guy dragged into the middle of all the crazy magic, and I think we’d get on: we’re both the chatty sort, and we fully agree that when dangerous things are after you the only thing to do is scream, flee or hide behind the big guy with the sword.
BBB: If you could shapeshift, what animal would you be? And why?
SRB: I would be a pterodactyl. I’d like to fly, but then some birds get shot at, and some get wet, and there’s the whole molting deal… Much better to be a pterodactyl. You can fly, and I presume everyone would just leave you alone, on account of how they’d be running away screaming ‘Oh my God, it’s a pterodactyl!’
BBB: What do you like on your pizza?
SRB: Mushrooms, onions, ham, sweetcorn, bacon… Um… Excuse me, I have to go away on an unrelated errand…
BBB: Where is the most beautiful place you have visited in the world?
SRB: I would have to say Florence. I remember visiting Italy as a poor student, trudging in rain and darkness, and then I turned a corner and lifted up my umbrella and saw the Duomo, shining like a fairytale palace in pearl and peach and gold. I visited the Duomo every day I stayed in Florence, like a girl with a crush. ‘Oh hi there massive building… fancy seeing you here!’
BBB: What is in your CD player/iPOD right now?
SRB: I’m so completely out of date: I don’t own either. I have a Walkman that I carry around with me because I like listening to the radio best - I like being surprised by the songs that come on. I’m aware this makes me sound elderly at twenty-five… I’d better not mention the taste for country music.
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but I’m a big fan of Sarah’s blog (and I RSVP’D). Sarah has shared on her blog many interesting adventures she had while researching this book. Sarah, if you had to pick ONE strange adventure you had working on this book, which one would it be and why?
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Hi Sarah,
I can’t wait to read your book, all the reviews I’ve read say this book is great and a must read.
3.If your book was made into a movie who would you like to play your characters?
RSVPed and said I’d be here today
4.I’m already subscribered to the BBB newsletter
6.I joined Sarah’s newsletter
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If you were a fictional character offered the traditional werewolf or vampire choices in boyfriends which would you have, or would you refuse both in favor of the lurking zombie or green demonic-looking monster you once mentioned?
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@ Wendy - I suppose the one I haven’t told people yet - my hero Nick is very handy with a sword, and I fenced at school, so I thought I could totally handle writing that. Only I then thought, hey, maybe I’ll take a refresher course.
I’d just forgotten how BAD I actually was at fencing. When someone comes at me with a sword, I forget everything I’m meant to do and just bash them over the head yelling ‘Die, die!’
So they thought they’d put me as partner to an eight-year-old. Surely, they thought, I wouldn’t hurt an eight-year-old. She was so tiny, with big spectacles. My heart melted at the sight of her. ‘Don’t worry,’ I said. ‘You’ll come to no harm with me.’
Unluckily for me, she turned out to be terribly nimble and quick, weaving in and out, quick as a fox…
So embarrassing research story No. 178353 - Got Ass Kicked by an Eight Year Old.
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@ Elaine - thank you very much, I hope you’ll enjoy it.
If my book was made into a movie… *starry eyes* Ahem. Gosh. It’s really hard to pick, but… My two villains, Tall Dark and Evil Arthur = Rufus Sewell, and Soft-Spoken Irishman Gerald = James McAvoy. (I know he’s not Irish, but he’s so cute.) And my heroine, small, belligerent and brown-eyed Mae, maybe Rachael Leigh Cook.
I haven’t a clue who would play the three main boys, Nick, Alan and Jamie. I might say Ed Westwick for Nick, but that would be mostly for the smoky English voice. If anyone else has any ideas, let me know!
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@ Eva I’d definitely go for the zombie. I like a man who appreciates my brains.
But if I had to go for a vampire or a werewolf, I’m afraid it’d be the vampire every time. Poor werewolves, they never catch a break.
That said, if we were talking a lion shapeshifter, I recently fell for Curran from Ilona Andrews’s Magic Bites series, and a vampire would be totally out of luck.
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Sarah, what’s your favorite response you’ve gotten so far by someone who has read your book?
(Or if you don’t have a favorite, just one that was especially surprising or interesting or funny.)
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Did having demons around influence human history in your universe? I mean, have important historic battles been lost or won for wont of a demon, etc etc. Does the TDL universe diverge from ours in any ways besides the fact we don’t have demons/magicians/Goblin Markets? (I mean, that I know of. Hmm.)
Wow, that is actually several questions. Er. Answer whichever bits you like, obviously.
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Can more than one demon attempt to possess something at once? What happens if they do? Is there a fight, does it just not work, or is there some sort of terrible cataclysm? (The perpetual chat was joking that two demons trying to possess a dinosaur at once might have caused an explosion big enough to kill them all off.)
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I RSVP’d and I am here. So Sarah, if you could envision anyone as a paranormal creature, who would it be, which creature and why> THanks. I’ll be following you on Twitter, postingthis link on my FB,etc. Have a great day!
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RSVp:ed and came
Hi Sarah,
I must say i liked what you had to say about high fantasy and urban fantasy, cos truth be told I never understood what the difference was, well sort of, but then there is the whole paranormal genre too.
Speaking of high fantasy, any authors you love?
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Sarah–James McAvoy is the best idea for everything. Him or David Tennant. Or Milo Ventimiglia. Or Zachary Quinto. (but now I’m REALLY veering off from Irish guys…) And Ed westwick does have such a pleasant voice ::happy sigh::
As for my own question! What sort of places do you go to for scenic inspiration? Any favorite haunts or local places that you used for models? (so we can all go write ‘Sarah wuz Here’ XD).
And how jealous am I that we’re the same age and you’re sporting a book! Makes me feel motivated to get a move on!
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I had wondered, vampires always seem to win those contests. I just reread the rules and it said we were allowed to ask two questions. So if I don’t win this -or if I do and just happen to want more- will we be able to buy Irish knife charms?
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wow welcome! Thank you so much for being here!~ And what a great prize package!
I am following Sarah on twitter
joined the livejournal and friended her my name- nicholandria
friended her on myspace
and twittered - nicholandria
I have not read the book yet( bad bad girl I know) but I have read nothing but good reviews- so it is now on my must have list!
What would you say is your favorite aspect of writing?
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as for the BBB ladies:
posted to:
@Book Blogs.ning:
http://bookblogs.ning.com/group/paranormalfantasyaddicts
http://bookblogs.ning.com/group/youngadultfiction
@my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508203808&ref=nf
on my blog sidebar:
http://lastexilewords.blogspot.com
already a follower (googlereader)
added you on twitter
requested facebook add
joined Facebook group
joined the Blood Bank @ning
sent e-mail with my confirmations of adding Sarah and the fangroup to my LJ, adding the facebook groups and adding Sarah to my twitter!
oh yes I also RSVP’ed (a little late though…)
(also…I tried to change my information that’s stored here from ‘Lexie’ to ‘Lexie C.’ but it keeps either freezing the page or just not popping up…I’m sorry I broke that rule…)
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I’m intrigued by the idea of demons feeding off emotions. Does that make them more powerful, or strengthen their grip on our world, or is it just something they enjoy?
-Billie B (I RSVP’ed)
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I haven’t read your work yet but really look forward too it!
What song best describes you?
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@Kara - Oh, I could not pick, but this art someone drew for me (http://community.livejournal.com/marmalade_fish/29939.html#cutid1) was one of the funniest things I have ever seen…
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What would be the theme song (or songs) for your book?
-facebook requested
-myspace requested
-already subscribed to newsletter
-blood bank username: delirium
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@November - In my head the Demon’s Lexicon universe is a secret history rather than an alternate history, so the way demons affect the world is already here.
Such as battles that have been won or lost through bad weather, men of incredible strength or power or luck, celebrities whose allure is mysterious… I think it’s happened a lot, actually. Maybe the Spanish Armada never landed because Elizabeth I’s magicians had demons wrecking the ships.
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or theme for a character or group of characters.
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@Azz - Two demons can’t possess a body at once: trying to do it would leave one human dead and one grumpy demon in possession of the corpse, but probably no explosions.
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@Lisa M - Well, I do quite fancy Johnny Depp as a vampire. He does seem to have the eternal beauty and irresistible allure going on…
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@Linda - I know, subgenres are so confusing, and there’s so much overlap! But thank you.
Oh, high fantasy authors I love: Lynn Flewelling and Jacqueline Carey spring instantly to mind. I adored The Bone Doll’s Twin and Banewreaker.
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Sarah, which of your characters did you have the most trouble writing and why? Also, how did you choose your characters’ names?
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Hi Sarah,
I love Danny Elfman too!
Question : what is the biggest difference that you see between the first finished manuscript you ever wrote and the manuscripts you write now?
Thanks.
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I RSVPd and arrive later than I tough so all the question I wanted to ask were already asked. But I would maybe ask about the country music. Who do you like?
I now follow you on twitter. can’t wait to read your book.
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Hi Sarah. Thanks so much for joining us here today.
I am a high school librarian, and from the description I can tell my students will love your book. I am very much looking forward to it, myself.
What inspired you to write for a young adult audience. I am very glad that YA Lit is now receiving the attention that it deserves.
Another question: Since you a fan of Elizabeth Bennett, have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet?
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Hello Sarah,
I have just ordered your book and I can’t wait for it to arrive so I can read it. What gave you the idea to write about demons in a Urban Fantasy setting? Do you think it may have been easier to write about them in a high Fantasy setting? Is it difficult to keep magic and mysteries in a modern setting and still make them feel real?
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Thank you for being here. I cannot wait to read your books.
How do you come up with the locations for your books to take place in?
I RSVPd, Myspaced (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=173136918), twittered, Facebook’d, subscribed, friended as required.
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Hi Sarah!
Thanks for being a part of BBB today.
So I have to ask. Since my husband, who is Irish, doesn’t ever give me a straight answer… this “Luck o’ the Irish” thing. Is it good or bad? LOL
Anyway, I haven’t gotten to read your book yet, but if it is as interesting as your interview I have to get on it. *^_^*
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Hi Sarah! Thanks for doing an interview heee.
I love that my favorite male actors have been mentioned. 
I am looking forward to reading your book! 
It is definitely on my summer reading list.
You mentioned banshees. I have to say- please use them as a character sometime!
that would be fantastic.
I’d definitely read that.
Can you say anything in Irish-Gaelic? Silly question. I used to study it & well, all I can remember are a phrase I won’t repeat & my name. Is there any word or phrase you can teach me?
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I suppose one question that crosses my mind, from time to time, is in regards to e-books and paper. Sarah, what’s your opinion about the environmental (or “green”) aspect of e-publishing, as it relates to supposedly fewer trees being cut to create books? Good, bad, or indifferent?
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How did you get started writing?
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I also posted a link to the contest on my own blog, in the top right corner in the CONTESTS section.
http://waggingthefox.blogspot.com/
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Hello Sarah,
How soon can we expect book 2 and what is the title?
RSVP’d 4. I’m a Subscriber 5. 6. Add Sarah’s blog and website @ http://beetsbooks.blogspot.com/
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Hi Sarah! I’m so looking forward to reading this book—it sounds terrific.
Since you’ve written a young adult book, I thought I’d ask, do you remember what some of your favorite authors or books as a young(er) adult were (since 25 is pretty young!)? And have you yourself had any unexplained experiences or encounters with the supernatural? (I haven’t—that’s why I have to make them up!)
Thanks for being here!
I follow Sarah on Twitter, RSVPed and asked to be a facebook friend. Thanks!
beax0002 (at) umn (dot) edu
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Hi this is Elie N at zenfoxflower @ yahoo.com
Great interview, I hope you have great success with your writing.
Have you always known you were going to write books?
Also, have you considered writing for the young adult audience (or would your book be safe for a young adult)?
I RSVP’d for this interview
I am a member of the BLOOD BANK
I am friends with BBB on myspace
Requested friends with Sarah on myspace
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Hi Sarah!!! Thanks for stopping by.
What got you started into urban fantasy or sci-fi? Why pick that topic?
Today it seems like young adult is really for everyone, so you’ll have a lot of adult readers as well. Do you see yourself writing an adult series?
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Hi Sarah! You already know I absolutely love The Demon’s Lexicon from my review and everyone should rush right out and buy it! I love your choice of Rachel Leigh Cook for Mae. I could totally see her in that role. How aboout Neil Patrick Harris for Alan? Can’t wait for Book 2!
I rsvped and Sarah is my friend on Facebook.
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I rsvped and here I am.
already member & friends with BBB & member of Blood Bank.
I can’t wait to pick up your book, sounds awesome.
Who is your favorite author or authors (I know I don’t only have one)?
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Hey Sarah!
Great interview! Was so surprised to hear you’re a published author at 25; it seems so young! How old was you when you started writing?
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Hi Sarah
If you could have written any book that has already been published which would it be and why? For example I wish I’d written the Harry POtter series (purely for the money tho lol).
Joined Facebook groups (Bitten by Books, Marmalade Fish, Some Magic is Done with Words - Fans of Sarah Brennan, sent friend request) - user name is Nanna Bess
Tweeted giveaway offer - username is SeriouslyKooky
Followed Sarah on twitter
Added Sarah’s journal as Livejournal friend.
Advertised both of Sarah’s sites on my blog http://sarahkay1.livejournal.com/9645.html
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I would like to know what keeps you writing in the face of rejection? Assuming that you have been rejected.LOL
Debby Creager
cleo@hbeark.com
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I did stop by yesterday an left an RSVP. Excellent interview!
When you are writing do you have an internal editor that mocks you? If so how do you turn it off?
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Hiya Sarah! Great interview! ‘Cept now I want a bacon sandwich…
So, I’ve got two questions for you.
Firstly, you mentioned a caffeine addiction and your roommate sometimes waking you up with a cup of tea. What type of tea is your favourite and how do you take it?
Secondly, I love stationery so I have to ask, what’s your favourite pen or type of pen?
RSVP’d
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Book sounds great and will be going on my wishlist! Someone already asked my question, so…..if money were no object, where would you live?
I follow BBB on Twitter and RSVP’d
I follow Sarah on Twitter
Sent a retweet out about the contest (user name is Alexia561)
Thanks!
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I RSVP’d
6. Following Sarah on Twitter, FB and joined be FB fan group
Hi Sarah
The book sounds really good. I’m adding it to my wish list.
My question:
Besides yourself, who are you currently reading?
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Hi Sarah Welcome to BBB great interview
i rsvped
sent a request to friend on myspace
joined her yahoo group
face book
both fan pages
posted her blog and site on my blog roll
posted the link to the contest on
my Myspace blog page
and my blog
http://zenes-escape.blogspot.com/
following sarah on twitter
@bainesgoddess
BBB
i have you on myspace
face book
goodreads
ur in my blog roll
and i am following you on twitter
@bainesgoddess
I know ur from Ireland my question is how does it compair to u compaird to new york or London ?
What are your top ten things you cant live with out that doesnt include your writing?
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heres my link to my myspace blog
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=87570301
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Hi Sarah,
What is your favorite flower?
I RSVPd
I am a member of the BLOOD BANK
I am friends with BBB on myspace and facebook
I’m already subscribed to BBB newsletter
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Ah, now I have another YA book to read. Excellent!
What sort of writing schedule do you keep? How long did it take you to write this book?
-I may have RSVPd, can’t recall
-BBB newsletter subscriber
-Blood Bank member, handle is my name
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@Lexie - I agree about James McAvoy.
I hang around in Ireland and the book is set in England, so I don’t really use the sets - but I do like going to the Cupcake Cafe in Dublin because, er, I find cupcakes generally inspirational.
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@ Eva - *amused* Sure, I buy them at Fields’ jewelers, and they have a website.
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@ Nicole - thank you for the welcome!
My favourite aspect of writing - either the moment when you’re not writing, and you realise something awesome that HAS to happen, or the moment when you are writing the scene you’ve looked forward to writing for ages, and it’s just as wonderful to write as you thought it would be.
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Hey, Sarah! I’m curious: Had you been wanting to write a book for a while before you came up with the idea for the Demon’s Lexicon? Or did you simply get this idea, and decide you wanted to write it?
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@ Billie - it’s more that they see human emotions as something that they can use for gain. Through seduction or temptation of a different sort: Proxy feeding.
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@ Candy - Thank you! Best describes me, hmmm - maybe ‘Unusually Unusual’ by Lonestar. (I warned you about the country music…)
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@ Christina W - well, The Little Things by Danny Elfman as I said, but for the whole group/a series of songs I did make a playlist here… http://www.musical-menagerie.com/2009/06/sarah-rees-brennans-playlist.html
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@Poonam - Definitely the most trouble with Nick, my main character, since I had to get inside his head and he’s so different from me: for one thing, he doesn’t like reading! (Seems unnatural…)
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Sorry I missed that this is a YA book, not that that makes much difference to me, it still sounds like a book I’d like to read.
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Also @Poonam - Generally I like to give my characters very normal names, since I get annoyed when everyone seems to be called Elspeth Moonfeather. (Or the heroine is called Elspeth Moonfeather and is surrounded by Dan and Janes.) I like Nick, both because it’s normal and because it’s a little associated with the devil - the Old Nick - which seemed fun and different for a hero.
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@Lesley - Oh dear, the first manuscript I EVER wrote, I was seven and so I hope everything is different! The one I wrote when I was seven focused largely on ponies and ninjas, which I thought were very exciting things at the time… Okay, I still do, but I don’t think I blended the ideas very skilfully then.
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@Elyane - Thank you! I like Dar Williams, Hal Ketchum and *coughs* Taylor Swift, among others.
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@ Carol - hooray, and I hope both you and your students will like it.
I discovered fantasy through awesome YA and children’s lit like Margaret Mahy and Diana Wynne Jones, so when writing I head straight for it: it just seems to be a case of choosing the most awesome genre around to me. And we really are in a golden age for YA lit, so I just cross my fingers and hope I can hold up the genre’s tradition of excellence!
I love Pride and Prejudice so much I’m a little leery of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I do think it’s a fabulous concept.
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@Toni - I so hope you’ll like it!
I really love the urban fantasy genre, and the idea of making magic up close and personal and really believable, so when I started researching demons I really wanted them up close and personal too. The idea of demons peering in the windows of a little house in London, with the traffic going past and the demons even closer, just fascinated me. So for me it feels more real to have them in the here and now: scarier and more compelling, but I admit that it is a tricky balance to achieve between magic and realism. I can only hope I’ve pulled it off!
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@Dianne - I took a walking tour around England that was one of the inspirations for the book: it starts in Exeter in Devon where I got the pants scared off me by a skeleton made up of the bones of many different plague victims, and then moves around England just like I did, with a particular focus on London which I lived near and love.
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I saw a knife outline on the page for Demon Lexicon on your site, is that an Irish knife like the charm? I’ve never seen one before. My grandfather (my Dad’s Dad) was the Irish part of my family, but he passed away when I was pretty young. The rest of my fam is Italian, so I’ve missed out on part of my past.
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@Lyda - I would be tempted to say the luck of the Irish thing is totally not real, but then here I am with a book out talking to all you lovely people, so I could be wrong.
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@Libby L - ‘Go raibh maith agat’ - it means thank you, which I do for having me here on bittenbybooks and asking me such great questions!
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@ Rabid Fox - I’m pleased if ebooks have a good effect on the environment - I confess, though, that I love paper books so much that despite trying to be environmental in other aspects of my life I totally plug my ears and go ‘La la la’ about the tree killing…
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@Dani - I was five, and I’d just scribbled an illegible little story and I prattled to my grandfather about being a writer: and he pretended he took me seriously. That was his mistake…
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@Beet - book two is called The Demon’s Covenant, and it comes out June 2 2010.
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@ Kimberly - I’m in the same boat as you, no supernatural experiences so I have to make them up! Poor martyred us…
I loooved and still love Margaret Mahy and Diana Wynne Jones, and I went crazy for LJ Smith when I was sixteen!
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@Elie - Thank you.
I have known I wanted to write books since I was five, though I admit there was a brief flirtation with the idea of being a ballerina.
My book is young adult, so I hope definitely safe for a young adult - it’s a great and fun genre to write in!
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@Heather C - thanks to you guys for having me! I think I always loved urban fantasy best because it was what I started with: I vividly remember picking up Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover in a library when I was a young thing, and I love the idea of magic creeping into your normal world and transforming it.
I do love the way that young adult has such a fantastic adult crossover - I think the genre’s just so much fun and so dynamic it naturally attracts people. I could see myself writing an adult series one day, but for now since YA is my true love and writing YA seems to be writing for adults and teens both, I am happy!
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@Lorelei - I do, thank you so much again for your most lovely review!
*goes and looks up pictures of Neil Patrick Harris…*
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@denise aka darkreader
I definitely don’t have only one: I love Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Diana Wynne Jones, Margaret Mahy, Holly Black, Sarah Waters, Kelley Armstrong, Ilona Andrews… to name but a few!
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@Jo - I started writing when I was five, and finished my first book when I was seven, so I started young.
Took about ten years for me to be any good…
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@Sarah - Books are so personal, it feels like saying I want to be a different person if I say I wish I’d written someone else’s books. But yes, I could possibly cope with having written Harry Potter or Twilight while floating on a glorious sea of gold…
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@Debby - Rejection, me? Never. LOL.
I have to say that giving up writing never occurs to me, no matter what rejection happens. It’s such a huge part of me at this point that while rejection can make me falter, it can’t make me stop running completely.
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@ Patricia - I do have an internal editor who mocks me. I don’t turn her off - I listen to her and change things sometimes, and other times I write down her wittiest insults and use them while writing. I feel that shows her.
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@Jacqueline -
I like Barry’s tea, which is an exclusive Irish kind of tea, but an okay equivalent is English breakfast which I take with milk and no sugar.
I am usually a standard biro girl, but I recently got a purple gel pen I adore!
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@ Terri - Oh, I love travelling, so if money was no object I’d live EVERYWHERE! I’d have a flat in New York and one in London, a house in Ireland and one in Massachusetts, and I’d travel around and around the world.
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Hi again Sarah - thank you so much for answering my question!
Is it too much to ask you to type it out phonetically please? I want to make sure I pronounce it correctly. Did you have to study Irish in school? Many of my Irish friends did and I was curious if you did also.
- but I wanted to ask this also. (btw, I am loving James McAvoy keeps being mentioned!
I adore him. He’s one of my favorite actors. )
If you could go back to any era in time - where would you go & what would you like to do?
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1) forwarded receipt of The Demon’s Lexicon
2) asked questions/commented. (yay! I learned another Irish phrase.
)
3) Already subscribed to the Bitten By Books newsletter.
Also friend on Facebook,
Facebook Group,
member of The Blood Bank
Twitter. (ailish79)
Goodreads, etc.
BBB is always on my Blogroll. (site is linked further down)
4) posted on Twitter & Facebook. Posted on my blog
http://solvioleta.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/sarah-rees-brennan
5) Signed up for Sarah’s Yahoo Group Newsletter (forwarded email confirmation)
Follow her on Twitter
Follow her on the Livejournal Fan Group (I am ailish there)
Friended on Facebook (Waiting for email confirmation)
Joined Facebook Fan Page #1
Joined Facebook Fan Page #2
Added Sarah’s blog and website to my blogroll here:
http://solvioleta.wordpress.com
Thanks for spending the day at BBB with us, Sarah!
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@Kainani - Right this second, I am reading an early copy of Justine Larbalestier’s new YA, Liar. It’s fabulously exciting! And I am REALLY looking forward to reading Catching Fire, the sequel to Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.
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Sarah, wow, you sound like an old soul. For one so young, your book sounds amazing. I’d love to read it. Do you write your first drafts longhand, or on a laptop/PC?
Rach, BBB’s on my permanent blog list, part of the Blood Bank, and follow on FB. Thanks!
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@Beverly G
Well, I really love New York, and Dublin is a much smaller city with less to do - but then it is comfortable, and feels like home. New York’s more exciting, I have to admit…
Gosh, ten things - friends, family, chocolate, pets, sunshine, raspberries, other people’s books without question, music, movies and lovely hot baths.
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@Cheryl M
I love yellow roses.
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@Julie - Yay YA! I try to write every day, though I don’t have any sort of word count quota, as I know I’d get turned around and the day I had to cut a thousand words I’d go put my hands in the toaster.
The Demon’s Lexicon took me about a year to write.
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Hi Sarah!!! I have to agree that one of things I love about urban fantasy is exactly what you said bringing magic into your everyday life. The possibilities are just too much fun. Plus, I really think it helps put you into the story more.
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@ Sara H - Not only had I been wanting to write other books, I had written other books! I wrote more than twenty, some of which I promptly tossed under the bed, some of which I tinkered with, always hoping one would be The One… and then this one was.
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@Elie - No problem.
I do most of my reading in the YA section these days myself…
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@ Heather C - It’s the same design as the charm: a quillon dagger, which is a knife with a hilt like a sword. My hero’s favourite kind of knife. (Oh dear, my hero has a favourite kind of knife, that can’t be good…)
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@ Cate - I write on my laptop, but sometimes when I’m having problems with a scene I change it up and write longhand, and it really helps!
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Ooohh you like high fantasy? I tend to incorporate some fantasy in my reading. Some of my favorites are: the belated David Eddings, Jennifer Roberson, Elaine Cunningham, Jane Lindskold, Mercedes Lackey
Well I asked this question the last time and liked it… If you could write / work with any author, be they dead or alive, who would it be?
And who were your idols in the writing industry.
* I RSVPed
* Bitten’s link is permanently up on my blogger links
* Joined her newsletter
* Added her on myspace (visionarydruid)
* I just posted something on my myspace bullentin and blog
* Following her on twitter (RaonaidLuckwell)
* I twittered about it
* Following on livejournal (www.livejournal.com/morriga/)
* mentioned something on livejournal
* Friended her on facebook (www.facebook.com/RaonaidLuckwell)
* Joined Facebook fan page 1
* Joined Facebook Fan Page 2
* I posted about it on facebook
* mentioned it on my blogger (visionardruid.blogspot.com)
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@Raonaid - If I could work with any author it’d have to be Jane Austen, but I don’t think I’d dare write with her, maybe I’d just bring her cups of tea. ‘You’re doing great Jane, keep it up!’ As you can see Jane Austen is definitely by way of being one of my idols…
I keep meaning to read Jennifer Roberson!
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All heroes need to have their preferred weapon. Its ok.
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Hi Sarah,
Another question for ya. So do you do SASE? So that readers can get their books signed?
:: Looks hopeful :: *^_^*
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just requested an add on facebook
What gets the words flowing when you are stuck?
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Hi Sarah,
If you could trade lives with any celebrity, who would it be and why?
Bridget
Shared:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1084897775&ref=profile
http://www.myspace.com/bridgetlaprairie (blog section)
http://freebies4meandu.blogspot.com/2009/06/interview-chat-and-contest-with-author_18.html
http://bridget3420.blogspot.com/2009/06/interview-chat-and-contest-with-author_18.html
http://technorati.com/faves/bridget3420?uid=1781933&limit=10&start=0&tag=
http://twitter.com/bridget3420/status/2232205046
BBB newsletter subscriber
Blood Bank member - bridget3420
BBB Myspace friend
BBB Facebook friend
BBB Facebook group member
BBB Good Reads friend
Following BBB on twitter
Sent Sarah a friend request for Myspace
Following Sarah on Twitter
Sent Sarah a friend request for Facebook
Joined Sarah’s fan group #1
Joined Sarah’s fan group #2
Added Sarah’s site to the Awesome Authors section of my blog http://bridget3420.blogspot.com
BBB is already on my blogroll http://bridget3420.blogspot.com
BBB is on my blogroll http://freebies4meandu.blogspot.com/
RSVP’d
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Contest stuff
3 = RSVPed & chatted
4 = all but myspace
5 = facebook
6 = newsletter, twitter, facebook, facebook fan 1, facebook fan 2
7 = tweeted
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@ Sarah how could you possibly NOT hang around placed called the Cupcake Cafe? I mean that would just be…blasphemous! almost like overlooking the very necessary place called ‘cookie world’!
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Hi Sarah!
Welcome to bittenbybooks! This book sounds great. What’s one song you would use in a playlist for Demons Lexicon
Thanks for stopping by!
(Rach-twittered, FB, friends with BBB everywhere, etc etc)
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Hi Sarah!
Since being an author is no long just about pumping out books, and that one must be an entrepreneur that has many hats what do you find is the most challenging aspect in marketing your novel?
Cheers!
Karen
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Sarah, I would highly recommend Jennifer Roberson’s Cheysuli series. That second to the last book had me sobbing at the end. I have three more books in her Del and Tiger series to go.. And her newest one isn’t that bad.
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Michele H. Here
RSVP’d earlier
Already a part of BBB newsletter, community, MySpace, FB, goodreads & twitter.
Befriended Sarah on FB, Twitter, My SPace, newsletter…
Quick question - When you switch to long hand - what challenges do you face? Do you prefer computer entry or long hand?
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Sarah,
I did RSVP and joined BBB.
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. I’ve skimmed previous questions and answers, so I may have missed if you answered this one.
As a small county children’s librarian in a conservative area, I must watch what I put on the shelf. I have put a lot of paranormal on the shelf lately since that is what is so popular. The review an excerpt sound great. I realize it will go into the Young Adult area, but in our library, that is close to the younger children’s books. What age groups is this book appropriate for? Sex? Violence? Language? My book budget is very small and I need to make sure what I order can be put out on the shelves. I don’t want to have to put it in the adult section where it would not circulate as much.
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Hi Sarah,
Thanks for taking the time to be here. Your book sounds great. Cant wait to get the chance to read it.
Sorry if this is already asked but I am late to the party today.
What inspired you to write your book for the YA audience?
And if you could meet any author, who would it be?
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Other contest stuff:
I RSVP’d.
3. 2 questions listed above.
4. All previously done.
5. Posted it here: http://donnasbloghome.blogspot.com/2009/06/bbb-interview-and-contest-with-sarah.html
6. Friend requests sent.
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ty for responding sarah ur book sounds awesome would love to win
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I RSVP’d
3.I have not read your books so I would like to no about them to see how i would like them?
4.I all ready get the news letter and am your friend on my space.
5.I spreed the word on my blog on myspace.com/sasluvbooks
6.and add your sites to my blog
add sent friend requests to your myspace and face book.
sasluvbooks@yahoo.com
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Sorry I ment to ask can you tell me some thing about your book?
sasluvbooks@yahoo.com
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@ Lyda - I haven’t quite worked out how to do it without costing scandalous amounts of money for people, since I’m based in Ireland, but I do have pretty bookplates with art on I sign for people to sticker in.
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@ Bama - When I’m stuck, changing from computer to longhand sometimes helps, and sometimes changing where I am - moving from inside to outside, from home to a cafe, so I can regroup and refocus!
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@ Bridget H - Gosh, a celebrity. I don’t think I’d like that - how awful to have your photo taken at all hours and your love life in the papers. I guess maybe JK Rowling? Piles of money, lots of writing time, and I don’t think the photographers hunt her and her husband as much as they do Brad and Angelina…
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@Libby L
Sure - Go is just like go in in English, raibh is like ‘reh - buh’, maith is mah-thu, and agat is agg-at.
I did have to study Irish in school, yes, I was awfully bad at it.
I would go back to the time of the War of the Roses, and try to find out who killed the Princes in the tower. (I would time travel… and fight crime!)
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@Virginia - Thank you!
I actually have a playlist up here - http://www.musical-menagerie.com/2009/06/sarah-rees-brennans-playlist.html
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@Karen - Well, I often get very worried about the fact I’m so far away in Ireland, I can’t really do anything! And I often worry I’m not doing the right things. But I really like interacting with readers and thinking up promo stuff, so it’s not all bad.
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@ Michele - I prefer computer, since you end up having to type out longhand anyway, which is a giant giant pain. But I will admit that switching to longhand does occasionally shake things up just right, so I couldn’t give it up either, and with longhand you edit as you go more, I find, which is helpful too.
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@ Patricia
I totally understand the Librarian’s Dilemma. I will try to be as honest and detailed as I can! The book’s classified as upper YA, and there is quite a bit of violence. However, there’s no sex and no bad language, and I’ve received good responses from the 11-12 crowd. Hmm, I don’t know what else might be helpful: Kirkus and School Library Journal both gave it starred reviews, which was very nice.
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@ Donna - I always really loved YA: YA was the first fantasy I ever read, so for me it seemed like a case of going with what I knew and loved best to write it.
And I’d meet Jane Austen, if I could travel in time - no zombie Jane, please! If it had to be a living author, Diana Wynne Jones.
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@ stacey - It’s a coming of age story set in modern day England, starring a grouchy sixteen year old who’s awesome with a sword, about love, family and what words really mean and what secrets those you love are hiding from you.
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Hello!! ok here goes^^
first of all the question to Sarah Rees Brennan (and I think its great that you are doing this, thank you so much!!)
1. What is your favourite scene/quote that you had to cut out of the original book
2. IS A SPOILER QUESTION!!!! PLEASE IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK DON’T READ IT!!!AT THE NEXT CAPSLOCK SPOILER IS OVER
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ok, now how come Nick didn’t have problems going to the Goblin Market in Tiverton?
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SPOILER IS OVER!!
Now then to the linkfest/ verification thingy.
4. I’m now friends with Kathy and a Fan of Bitten Books(yay!), but Facebook doesn’t have a verification…
put up the Twitter thing, but I don’t know if my real name is displayed there, so my nick is “ravelqueen”
part of the forum and newsletter, both with my real name and the email adress given here
linkage to “Bitten by books”:
http://ravelqueen.livejournal.com/12793.html
Additionally I posted it in my facebook stat….ehm don’t know how to link it sorry….put I friended you! so you can look I guess?
5.
I’m already her friend on facebook as well as a Fan of her and now also part of marmalade fish on facebook
Already part of marmalade_fish on livejournal, follow her on twitter(for all these there are no confirmation mails!! the only thing to do is check I guess…sorry..)
and I guess thats it…I’m sending an email with the Amazon.co.jp confirmation and the yahoogroups one right now
I hope I did everything right…
Thanks again to Sarah Rees Brennan and you lovely people here for giving us that opportunity!!
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I loved the interview. I often ask authors if a movie were based on their life what would it be called and who would play them. I think “Angel of Death” would make a fabulous movie title for you. People wouldn’t know if it was horror, action, comedy or drama. Do you have another title you would like and who would you want to play you?
RSVP’d, get the newsletter, I’ll send you friends request on Facebook & Myspace, and since I am limited on time now, I will post a link on my blog (http://cc-chronicles.blogspot.com) and will check out your site tonight.
I look forward to reading your book. I’ll let you know what I think & post a review on my blog.
Chris C (wilmstagemgr@gmail.com)
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@Felicitas - I think I do miss the scene where Alan is like, ‘Oh my God, Nick, you shelved Jane Austen in the travel section?’ and Nick replies ‘What, the characters in her book never get into a car and drive around?’
People scrolling down are bound to see spoilers, so I shan’t answer the spoiler question here - but feel free to email me! Or ask me on the spoiler thread on my livejournal (http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/146703.html) I’ll be most happy to answer, I just don’t want to spoil.
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@ Chris C - thank you! *beams*
I do sometimes think if I wrote a biography it’d be called Throwing Up Daffodils because… that happened to me one time… but I think your title is classier.
As for who I’d want to play me, gosh, I don’t know: Maggie Gyllenhall is probably too awesome for me, but I do love her, so let’s go with that.
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Hi Sarah,
Thanks for answering my question. Ponies and ninjas sound like an awesome combination!! Can I ask what inspired you to write about those at the time. I mean ponies I can understand, but I am intrigued by the ninjas.
Thanks.
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@ Lesley - I think that I just got very bored in the middle of writing books at that age, so I fished around for something that was both to my mind, awesome and violent. Sudden murder! Violent explosions! And of course, ninjas.
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I bought the book WAY in advance from Amazon (love the preorders option!) and I joined the newsletter. A quick question for Sarah (or two actually. ^_^):
1. I’m curious…why did you take fencing as a course? Why not a different type of physical sport thingy?
2. Do you have any more stories to tell about your days researching for the Demon’s Lexicon? I really enjoy hearing them since you have such a fun way of retelling them to us. I loved your tale of the time you went on the Ghost Tour as well as when you went to research cars. I’m an avid follower (read: lurker) of your journal so I read them all. Just wondering if you have any more new stories to tell.
Thanks so much for writing the book. I absolutely loved it and can’t wait for the second book! I also adore your reviews/recommendations though I have now gone broke buying them. Thanks for your time!!! *hearts*
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@ Kristina - I think I just fancied it because it sounded awesome. I’m a shallow, shallow soul, and I love swashbuckling, and pirates and historicals and swords and sorcery. So I had to have swords even in my urban fantasy…
Gosh, I think I have a zillion stories about how I wrote the Demon’s Lexicon: I also went to a salsa class to research dance. Apparently it was like going to a bowling alley with the bowling ball. So said my heartless laughing friends.
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Hi =) Haven’t read your book yet but always looking for new author to read =)
What was the topic of the first ever story you wrote?
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@ Cindy - Hey. The first story I ever wrote was when I was five, and it was about a house that exploded.
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1. I bought the book and will forward receipt. *^_^*
3. Did… she’s got the GOOD luck o’ the Irish going for her.
4. a. Already a subscriber
b. Am a member of the Blood Bank -Lyda
c. Am a friend on FB
d. Am also a friend on Myspace
e. BBB is also a permanently link on my blogroll
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6. a. I joined Sarah’s newsletter.
b. Also both of Sarah’s links are in my “Authors of Note” page in above blog.
All confirmations will be sent. *^_^*
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Sarah, thank you for answering my question about library YA placement. It was a big help. It is nice to have male main characters. It is had to find something that is not girl focus.
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Hi Sarah:
WoW was looking at your website and it is so cool. Did you do that yourself or hire? I’m lucky I found my livejournal and I still haven’t posted on it. LOL What I wanted to ask is do you ever get lost into the book you are writing, do you ever feel that you are losing a little bit of control over the characters. I’ve heard many writers say they were going to write one book but the characters in this book wanted their own story told.
Thanks, Jo
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@ Jo Anne - My website designer Theo Black did it - he’s a genius, isn’t he? I know less html than a teaspoon.
Sometimes I do feel like I’m losing control of my characters, but then I look back and the unexpected way the story was going suddenly fits in so perfectly - so I like to think it’s just that my SUBCONSCIOUS is a genius, and totally knows what’s going on.
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@ Patricia - My pleasure! And it did seem a bit unfair to me that so many books had girl narrators.
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3.) What music do you listen to when you write? What music gets you in the mood or the right headspace for the writing that you
do?
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@ Valorie - Chiefly country music, but I don’t think anyone reading the books would guess.
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