My M is fond of saying that you write "the very best boyfriends ever". Plus, Zara would’ve kicked my butt if I had written her any other way.Ģ. They deserve stories where the main character is like them.
There are teens out there who are smart, athletic, socially conscious, and whose lives aren’t defined by their boyfriends.
She can be in distress sometimes, but not all the time. They deserve stories where the female isn’t always the damsel in distress. Girls deserve stories where the butt-kicking and the saving isn’t ALWAYS done by the guys. Zara’s development is like those adult protagonists for a reason. There are still a lot of damsels in distress, which is okay, but I wanted some variety, some female leads who become tough and still are girls, who have bravery and empathy. What were your considerations when creating a female main character for your fantasy novel?Ī lot of contemporary fantasy novels for adults have incredibly confident, butt-kicking heroines but that dominance hasn’t completely taken over the young adult genre. She's smart, she's athletic, she's socially conscious, and she really doesn't take a lot of crap from anyone, and I have to confess to loving her for rushing out into the world to threaten that if anything happened to Nick, she would kick somebody's ass. The main character in Need, Zara, is a pretty self-actualized, proactive girl. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, since Jeri Smith-Ready did such a kickass interview with you back in December and the folks over at My Favorite Author did a great Need-based interview earlier in May, but here goes.ġ. Rather than go over anything about Tips and Love and Girl, Hero, I thought we'd talk about fantasy today, and about what's next. What a difference two years makes – in that time, Tips was released (and won the 2008 Maine Literary Award and Independent Booksellers Award), Girl, Hero and Love were released as well, and in December of 2008, your first fantasy novel, Need, was released by Bloomsbury. At that time, Girl, Hero and Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape) were still in production with Flux. Kellyrfineman I first interviewed you for The Edge of the Forest e-zine back in 2007, a month or so before Tips on Having a Gay (ex)Boyfriend came out.
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