Adalyn Grace
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Victoria Lee:
Are there any books that you feel have had a direct influence on you as a writer, and how you learned to tell stories?
Victoria Lee
I love this question, because I've always been a reader first, so that means the list is super long! My favorite book right now is The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and it's been that way for a while.
Although I write speculative fiction, I'm inspired by TSH's attention to personal stakes and complicated interpersonal relationships, and the way it manages to be "about" murder but also about class and privilege and other complicated and nuanced themes at the same time. I am also always inspired by books that can touch on trauma in new and interesting ways, like Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and RF Kuang's The Poppy War.
On the YA side, I love the strong characters and settings crafted by authors like Leigh Bardugo and Naomi Novik, and the moral gray zone that's done so well by Marie Lu and VE/Victoria Schwab. ...This is a really long answer, because there are a lot of books that I love, and I feel like books that I love tend to find there way into my heart and end up influencing what I write--even if indirectly.
Although I write speculative fiction, I'm inspired by TSH's attention to personal stakes and complicated interpersonal relationships, and the way it manages to be "about" murder but also about class and privilege and other complicated and nuanced themes at the same time. I am also always inspired by books that can touch on trauma in new and interesting ways, like Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and RF Kuang's The Poppy War.
On the YA side, I love the strong characters and settings crafted by authors like Leigh Bardugo and Naomi Novik, and the moral gray zone that's done so well by Marie Lu and VE/Victoria Schwab. ...This is a really long answer, because there are a lot of books that I love, and I feel like books that I love tend to find there way into my heart and end up influencing what I write--even if indirectly.
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coco's reading
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Victoria Lee:
Hi Victoria! I'm currently about a fourth of the way into The Electric Heir and am already an anxious mess - it's hitting so hard and in the best way possible. I'm curious about the preorder campaign you mentioned a few months ago on your website. I preordered the book and submitted a copy of my order, and I was just wondering how receiving the story of choice will work?
Kailey
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Victoria Lee:
?Not really a question but I just wanted to say that I LOVED Fever King. I started reading the comic by SaraDeek and wanted to read the book. It was probably one of the best books I have read this year. I just want to say that I love you and I can tell your going to be HUGE and that it was a privilege reading Fever King and that adventures it took me on, and I can't wait to see what happens in the next book! ?
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