Squee(tus)! It's an interview with MWT!

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

One of my other new favorite fantasy writers, Shannon Hale, has just posted the first of a three-part interview with Megan Whalen Turner over on her blog. If you're interested in adding Shannon's blog to your LJ friends list, you can subscribe to the feed at squeetus.

The first installment is here, with the tantalizing promise of more to come. Here's a teaser from one of MWT's replies:

I always thought my favorite writers must *glow* or something.  Susan Cooper, I imagined floating through air. Katherine Patterson especially should have a saint-like aura.  At least, they should wear flowing robes.  Capes maybe.  Authors ought to live in mysterious writerly places like Bali, or in a cabin in the Adirondacks.  I don't know about you but I am in suburbia here and I sometimes feel like I'm letting the side down.

Hee!

Comments

[shadowgirlvg.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. MWT always makes me feel absolutely giddy about the quality of her writing. She's one of my number one role models, though I don't see if I can even hope to write stories as wonderful as hers someday. Seeing things like this, where she's just being a regular person instead of my mental superhero picture of her is very comforting.

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is wonderful! And it's raised several questions I'd like to ask Megan as well.

Such as, just what impact DID the Newberry Honor have on future stories about Gen?

Please tell us why you put Attolia in cool green dress.

And please please please can we have some more of those left over puzzle pieces?

[(Anonymous)]

it was laundry day?

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

yeah, right. Next reason?

[(Anonymous)]

i'm sorry. did you say something?

i could have sworn i heard a question

[(Anonymous)]

No?

Good, because, you know me and not telling. I notice Shannon Hale's FAQ explains why
she doesn't tell either.

mwt

Re: i could have sworn i heard a question

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

*gets out the laundry detergent*

Fine then. Be that way.

How about the Newberry question?

Re: i could have sworn i heard a question

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

*Newbery. My fingers keep insisting on the second "r"*

Re: i could have sworn i heard a question

[(Anonymous)]

I am forever indebted to Barbara Barstow, a librarian in the Cuyahoga County Library System. My editor Susan Hirschman called, right after the Chair of the Newbery Committee, to congratulate me. She said, "Barbara wants to talk to you," and handed her the phone. Barbara said, "Are you writing another book about him?" And just like that, I realized that I would.

mwt

Re: i could have sworn i heard a question

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

*Gen Love*

Thank you for releasing them for us to read!

*goes off to read Shannon Hale's FAQs*

Re: i could have sworn i heard a question

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

hah, I was going to ask you that too. And coincidentally, our laundrette is broken. Could happen :P

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I always thought my favorite writers must *glow* or something.

And never need root canals.

Awesome link, RJ, thanks. Two of my favorite authors. I can't wait to hear the other parts of the interview.

[(Anonymous)]

*offers Barbara Barstow cookies*

Thank you RJ for the link!

~Feir Dearig

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

I went off and read Shannon's FAQs, and it seems as though I can hear mwt echoing many of them.

I love that Shannon Hale reads Sandra Boyton to her babies. Boyton Board Books rock.

*goes off in search of the 'Hey! Wake Up' icon*

: )

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

*dies*

Oh my goodness. OH my goodness. Oh my GOODness.

OK, I'm done.

Actually, I'm not.

Oh my goodness.


While we're on Shannon Hale.... Book of a Thousand Days, anyone? It's on my walking-distance bookstore shelves, and I read the first few pages... but since I'm a poor working college student I couldn't justify laying down the 17 bucks for it. I WANT to read it though. *pokes librarians*

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, RJ.

[rowana.livejournal.com]

Great link RJ, thanks. I will be very disappointed if Megan doesn't float into Starbucks at Christmas, for that matter. Or at least have the decency to walk on water, or something.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Hah, yes. or walk on water and wear a red beard...

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

I might have jumped past my squeetus feed (trying to catch up on reading) so thanks for the link RJ! What a great conversation.

[ivorysilk]

Thanks for posting this--Shannon Hale is another writer I discovered this summer, and the interaction between them is great--I didn't know she had a blog, even. Thanks much!

[dh684.livejournal.com]

Hmm, did Sounis actually play a role in bringing these two authors together?

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/86202.html

In any event, I'm looking forward to next installments of the interview.

Oh, no, you don't!

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

In part 3: "I would move into the British Museum. "So sorry, Your Majesty, but the Elgin marbles are mine now. The Treasure of Sutton Hoo. Mine. The Reading Room, the Court. Mine, all mine.""

It grieves me to have to say this, but if you want the bust of Prince Rupert you're going to have to fight me for it. It's mine! Mine, mine, mine, mine, mineMINEMINEMINEMINE!

Re: Oh, no, you don't!

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s78/aged_crone/Rupertbust.jpg
Just in case you were wondering.