Q&A with Chris Hackett discussion
Welcome and Introductions!
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I'm pretty sure you already know who I am:) For everyone else: I'm a fourteen year old Catholic girl who met Chris after I read his book, The Observer. Um.....I love Leonardo Dicaprio, Mel Gibson, and Christian Bale. I like Greenday, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, and Lady Gaga. I'm a huge book geek and mainly read science fiction, paranormal romance, action, and law related stuff. (Jodi Picoult) Yeah. If you want to creep me just look me up:D
At Chris: What gave you the idea to write The Observer?
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I was inspired to write this book by a few things: first, I love humanity's idea of "angels" and some sort of perfect race that lives with God. Specifically, I was inspired by the line "created in our image" in the (Christian) Bible, which got me thinking, who is "our"? That got me thinking of The Observers, an ancient race that created humans and the Earth. They used to interact with us, which is how humans got the idea of "Angels" and religion in general, but they haven't in centuries.
The Observer race in the book is meant to be a commentary on where I see humans going if we continue down certain paths - they are purely scientific and their lack of emotion is present from the first chapter of the book. Since my "day job" is a scientist, I understand full well the implications of a "scientific culture" and I try to get that across through their actions.
I got the idea for the overall premise first, and only later did my idea to make it a sort of paranormal romance - sci-fi hybrid occur.
Hope this answers everything!
Chris
I like where you went with it:)Hey-what teen books do you like and/or that also helped in writing The Observer?
Use this thread to introduce yourself to me and everyoen else who will be posting. I like to get to know the people asking me questions!