Cathy Lee
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Genevieve Cogman:
I just want to say that I love your books, I have not been this captivated since Harry Potter! Where did you get your inspiration for these books?
Genevieve Cogman
Thank you! I'm very glad that you're enjoying them.
To be honest, I get inspiration from all over. Other fiction, myths, folklore, history, real places (a certain theatre in Paris), odd facts about nature (killer whales assaulting sharks to eat their livers) . . . it's all useful material. The mind often takes things in indiscriminately and then spits them out later in an interesting configuration or a way that can be useful.
That's it, really - one never knows what might be useful.
To be honest, I get inspiration from all over. Other fiction, myths, folklore, history, real places (a certain theatre in Paris), odd facts about nature (killer whales assaulting sharks to eat their livers) . . . it's all useful material. The mind often takes things in indiscriminately and then spits them out later in an interesting configuration or a way that can be useful.
That's it, really - one never knows what might be useful.
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Cheryl Smith
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Genevieve Cogman:
Hi! Love your Library series! re-reading book 2, quick question: In the Venice sphere, what benefit to Lord Guantes if he starts this war? how does this help him? And, in general, why is the Library (Irene's supervisor esp.) so hard on Irene? aren't they more worried about the Library? why wouldn't they help her more? i know they have to stay "neutral" but at what cost? seems they leave her on her own! please answer!
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