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Jason Pargin:
Salutations! I'd like to ask where you got your idea for Will Blackwater? (He's my favorite out of all your books!) Ps, I'm glad your books exist, thank you for creating them for people to enjoy!
Jason Pargin
Well the idea for Zoey came first, and the character of Will needed to be the perfect foil for Zoey. Not someone who is her exact opposite or her perfect enemy, but someone who is aligned with her but different in ways that create the most volatile mix. She would love to categorize him in some simple way (evil, privileged, whatever) but he tends to defy categorization at every turn, which drives her crazy. He is everything she is not and yet somehow she keeps seeing shades of herself in Will and shades of Will in her. And in that sense he represents the system as a whole, she would love to hate it and dismiss it and root for its downfall but she is frustrated by every effort to truly separate herself from it.
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Levi Kane
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Jason Pargin:
Hey Jason, I know that you may not be at liberty to disclose details, but I'm wondering if there are any updates on film adaptations for either Zoey Ashe or a JDATE continuation? I typically wait eagerly to preorder all of your novels, and would happily digest any of your works in as many formats as I can find them. Be it baked, boiled, blended, or fried...
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Jason Pargin:
Hey Jason! I wanted to know what the inspiration was for the Soy Sauce. Have you ever experimented with recreational psychedelic drugs like LSD, DMT or psilocybin or was this just an idea that popped up in your head and made for a good book plot? Love the JDatE series, they turned into some of my all time favourite books. Take good care of yourself
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