One of the authors attending YALLFest this year is Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and the upcoming sequel Hollow City (Jan. 2014.) Here is an interview the YALLFest team did with Ransom!
What one thing do you need to have when you write?
Silence. My noise-cancelling headphones have become almost essential.
What is the hardest line to write- the first or the last?
The first. I rewrite and rewrite it a million times. The last comes easy.
Tell us 5 random facts about yourself.
I’m six foot four. I lived on a working farm until I was five. I used to know how to cook Indian food but now I’ve forgotten. I love documentaries. One day I will conquer the moon.
What are you working on now?
A novel for Little, Brown the plot of which is SECRET! (Sort of, for now. But I’m really excited about it.)
What is your favorite genre to write in? To Read?
Oh, definitely YA to write in. I read everything, lots of YA, lots of adult, nonfiction of all sorts. I even read poetry when I’m feeling ambitious. I think it’s crucial to have lots of different influences. If you only read in the genre you write in, your writing will sound like everything else that’s already out there.
Visit Ransom on his: Twitter * Facebook * Website * YouTube or at YALLFest of course!
Congrats to Samantha who won a paperback copy of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children!
“If you only read in the genre you write in, your writing will sound like everything else that’s already out there.” Love that! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Me too! 🙂
great interview, lucy. i still haven’t read peregrine but i think it’ll be perfect reading for the fall.
Great interview! I remember enjoying this book when I read it. And the photographs in the book add an extra layer of creepy.
I keep thinking I want to try this book out!
I totally understand the sentiment re first and last lines – you start off a book with a certain lack in the confident arena and when you get to the other end if the story you have that confidence in your characters and your plot, your atmosphere etc, so you know where and how to end it – it feels natural. Of course this is my limited NaNoWriMo experience blurting, lol.