Olivia Starks

Olivia Starks asked Blake Crouch:

What sparked the idea for Dark Matter?

Blake Crouch For the last decade, I’ve wanted to write a story that hinges on quantum mechanics. I tried several times to write a version of Dark Matter… getting into SPOILER TERRITORY HERE… Three separate storylines had been teasing me, and I’d tried and failed to write them all separately. One storyline involved the box. Another involved the idea of meeting yourself. And the last was about a man being hopelessly lost in time. The novelist Marcus Sakey is one of my good friends, and we always meet up at the inception stage of a new book to pressure-check each other on our ideas. While we were in Chicago two years ago, I was pitching each of these ideas to him separately, when it occurred to me they were actually all part of the same story. They suddenly clicked together, like puzzle pieces, and I was off and running. I find the writing process endlessly mysterious and wonderful.

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Erin

Erin asked Blake Crouch:

I’m not here to ask you a question, I simply Want to tell you how enthralled I was With this novel. The moment that I picked Up the book I could Not put it down. I have Since not stopped wondering about multiverses and if it’s truly even possible. Thank you so much for giving me something to lose myself in! Also, I’m only putting a ? Here to show this is a question, which it clearly is not. Thanks again.

Amanda M

Amanda M asked Blake Crouch:

I loved Dark Matter. It was the first book of yours that I read and I am looking forward to reading more. What are some of your strategies, as an author, to keep track of the timelines and characters in your stories as you write?

Hope

Hope asked Blake Crouch:

It seems that many artists, like yourself, are inspired to write from painful experiences, or those experiences help mold a story or a character. Do you think that the current Covid crisis will inspire future writings, and if so, what research into personal experiences would you conduct vs strictly imagination on a warped version of the virus? Or do you have no plans for considering an epidemic type scifi story?

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