Kim Craig
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Nicola Griffith:
I'm about halfway through HILD, and am loving it. Thank you for writing this book! I noticed that HILA was shelved in adult fiction in my local library, which seems right to me. I wonder, though, did anyone (publisher, agent, etc.) want to promote this book as YA, due to the age of the protagonist?
Nicola Griffith
No. As far as I know no one ever considered presenting HILD as YA.
She might be a child for some of the book, but she faces very hard choices, life and death choices, from the opening pages. There's a lot of death and sex and power and politics, too, handled--I like to think--in adult terms. That was challenge: to write in adult terms from the perspective of a young person.
It's a relief to now be doing with a wholly adult character...
She might be a child for some of the book, but she faces very hard choices, life and death choices, from the opening pages. There's a lot of death and sex and power and politics, too, handled--I like to think--in adult terms. That was challenge: to write in adult terms from the perspective of a young person.
It's a relief to now be doing with a wholly adult character...
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Nicola Griffith:
Do you outline before writing a novel? If so, much time do you spend outlining?
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