Romantic Times has a brand-new website, and one of the cool new features is a blog. Here, Vicki Pettersson interviews New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore about his new book, BITE ME.
"Vicki Pettersson: First off, I gotta take a page from Abby Normal’s journal to tell you: Chris Moore, you rock my stripy socks. Yet, I’m looking at your author photo trying to find out where you’re hiding a complex and mysterious goth girl in that fairly straightforward (yet obscenely masculine) writer-boy frame. I mean, Abby really took over this book. Were you at all concerned about diving into a teen girl’s mind for much of this narrative?
Christopher Moore: I was a bit concerned, but the key, I’ve found, to do characters like Abby is to completely construct a new dialect, rather an try to approximate a real one. So basically, if the reader should think, 'nobody talks like that', your explanation is, 'of course not'. There’s a bit of 'Method Acting' in writing any character that isn’t like yourself. You just have to get into character and try to stay there."
Lots of fascinating information follows about the new adventures of Abby Normal, Chet the hairless vampire cat, and more! Don't miss the full interview, and then read some of the side-splittingly funny BITE ME.
-- Diana
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