I’ve read a lot of fantasy where pages are spent on describing the character’s dark leather cloak.įinally, we know you are doing some work against bullying and that this is a real passion for you. Oh, and I would also say that a character’s soul or personality is dictated by what the do, just like in real life, so make them do things, show who they are through their actions, not just by their clothing choices. Fantasy is such a great genre you can experiment and do whatever you want to with it, really. I would say to remember that character is as important as plot and to have fun with it, really. What advice would you give someone who wanted to write a fantasy novel? People talk about it being a tremendous amount of work, but I never found it to be like that at all. I’m glad she did because I learned so much in that first year. I tried to quit but Lisa Jahn Clough convinced me to stay. Everyone there knew so much about craft and talked about it all the time and were from New York or Connecticut or California and drank wine and I felt like a total Maine bumpkin. I didn’t fit in at all with the other people. Tell us about your experience at Vermont College? He protects you and cherishes you and goes on crusades for you and does it all while being gallant and snazzily dressed. It’s sort of like having an amazing knight (because he really is a renaissance man) be your agent. What’s it like having the Charming Edward Necarsulmer IV as your agent?

Ugh! This is a very evil question to which I have no answer. What are your top 3 favorite YA novels right now? I still can’t actually believe that’s real.

Hm….Almost killing my agent on the highway? No, I think it would probably be debuting on the NYT Bestseller’s list with NEED and CAPTIVATE and then having NEED hit a French bestseller’s list as well.

You’ve had a lot of exciting things happen for you in ’09/ ’10. I never actually expected anyone to like it. Oh, that was a huge experiment! I just wanted to see what would happen if I tried to write something more plot-driven than character-driven. What made you decide to go from duct tape to fairies? Before that I was a newspaper reporter and an editor and a poetry editor. That was when I decided to go to Vermont College of Fine Arts and get an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Well, I’ve only been trying to be a fiction writer since 2005 really. Carrie grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with uber-comedian Sarah Silverman she now lives in Ellsworth, Maine. She also loves Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes, and is the award-winning author of Girl, Hero Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape) Tips on Having a Gay (Ex)-Boyfriend and Need. Carrie Jones occasionally wears mismatched socks, always loves Great Pyrenees dogs, and never drinks coffee.

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