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I’m Robin McKinley. I’m originally American but I married this British bloke and I’ve now lived in England for twenty-five years. I write mostly YA crossover and mostly fantasy. Kids read both Deerskin and Sunshine but I wish they waited till they were older.
And Outlaws of Sherwood is not a fantasy except insofar as a modern feminist retelling of Robin Hood is a fantasy by definition. I think you learn a lot about the real world by exploring stuff in fantasy, but that’s the kind of tangent I wander down on. Which reminds me,If you’re frowning thoughtfully and trying to remember why my name sounds familiar, my other novels are: Beauty, The Blue Sword, The Hero and The Crown, Spindle’s End, Rose Daughter, Dragonhaven, Chalice, Pegasus and Shadows. There are also some short stories but not very many since my short stories tend to turn into my novels. Also there’s Kes which is a serial I’m running on my blog, with a new episode most Saturday nights, about a middle-aged female fantasy writer with a bird first name and a Scottish last name, who gets a little embroiled in the kind of thing that usually only happens in her fiction.I’ll be back around 6 pm CST to answer your questions, God willin' and the crick don't rise. I came, I saw, I answered-mostly!
Thanks again to everyone who posted and I'll be back tomorrow in case anyone else posted after I crashed. Okay, very late the 24th, or very early the 25th if you want to be pernickety about it, I've just spent about another hour adding and answering, because I am a silly person.
I'm outta here for the final time. Thanks again to everyone who posted!.
I never thought I'd have the opportunity to tell you this story.I've been lucky to have had some amazing interactions with my favorite authors, but the most meaningful author interaction I've had came more than twenty years ago.When I was in second grade (age 7 or so), my Language Arts class assignment was to read a book, write a book report, and then send a letter to the author - a real letter; this was before the ubiquity of email.I read The Hero and The Crown, and quickly wrote my report. When it came time to send a letter, though, I was terrified. What if you didn't answer me? What if you thought I was just a dumb kid?
What if you saw my handwriting and didn't like me? I loved your books, so rejection would have been devastating.For the occasion, my mother took me stationary shopping. I bought a package of small purple cards with my initials in shiny gold lettering at the top. I spent a week writing my letter.The message has gone the way of my knowledge of the periodic table and chromatic scales, but the gist was that I really, really liked your book and I had a terrible crush on the protagonist. Were you going to write more, and how could I meet a girl like Aerin?When my mom brought me the mail a few weeks later, I was so excited. I couldn't believe that someone who had written a book had actually written me a letter! It wasn't a form letter, either; in a few lines, you thanked me for writing you, told me that you did have plans to continue the story, and told me that, if I was very kind to everyone I met, someday I would meet a woman I'd love as much as I loved Aerin.It's been many years and I've moved more than a dozen times, so the letter is long gone.
The message, and the simple kindness of an author taking her precious time to respond to a besotted boy, have remained.I've received phone calls, postcards, letters, books, emails, tweets, and text messages from NYT bestsellers and rising stars. They all mean a lot, but nothing will ever have the impact of that short little note twenty years ago from a woman I've never met.Thank you.
Thank you!:) It is to me surprisingly different. A story is a story is a story, right? And short stories are more or less similar to novels, just shorter (. Which may explain why my short stories keep turning into novels). The serial needs to be as much as possible its own little tiny story every week because of the bonkers delivery system.
Also since I want people to keep reading I try to end on as cliffhangery a moment as possible. I don't get to do a second or third or seventeenth overall draft EEEEEEEEEEEP because the bits go public individually. (Sometimes I'm slightly ahead on eps.
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Sometimes I'm not.) But KES is more than a little tongue in cheek which means I can take risks about being, ahem, stupid in public.:). I love love love your books. You came recommended to me by a book seller in Chester who said, 'I usually don't like vampire stories but you should try this one.' I did and then I promptly went on to read most of your other books.
I thought I had no questions for you (except one, but that was not a wanted one as per your blog post). However you knit according to this same post so:Do you have a favourite knitting pattern?And what object have you knitted that you were most proud of?Edited to add: What I enjoy about your books is that you surprise me. You twist well known concepts slightly. You don't take them and turn them upside down but sideways instead. You also write women like they are human. I look forward to your next books. You're pretty much perfectly describing what I'm trying to do-WRITE STRONG, REAL WOMEN and put them in stories where the familiar is just slightly subverted.
It's not that turning stuff inside out can't be fascinating and spectacular but I tend to be more interested in what you can do with a little tweaking.But. You're assuming I'm a, ahem, REAL knitter. I knit easy stupid things and STILL make ghastly mistakes. I'm not proud of any of them!!!
I could probably give you the half dozen patterns that most make me want to try harder. But you'd have to email me or post to my blog forum to remind me because I'm going to be seriously braindead after I answer more of this lot.:). Hi Robin, and thanks for joining us!Several questions:.As an American expat in the land of tea and crumpets, what do you miss most about the good old US of A?.Is the coffee shop in Sunshine based off of anything real life? Because I have to tell you, I spent that entire novel prepared to commit public murder for one of Rae's cinnamon rolls. I'm more than willing to make a pilgrimage to get one.I'd love to hear anything you've imagined as happening after the end of Dragonhaven, which is probably my favorite of yours. Beyond description.
This is partly because I am so frelling CLUELESS about the business side but mostly because the world has changed so much. BEAUTY (my first book) was written on not just a typewriter but a manual typewriter. (I borrowed a friend's electric to type the final clean copy. It wasn't very clean: this was also in the era of 'correction fluid'.) Computers?
The internet? Print on Demand?
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Self publishing as something ordinary people can tackle? Live-time keyboard chats with people on the other side of the planet?:) Holy bazookas.
It's incredible. The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown are two of my favorite books, and I reread them every year!Okay, so fairy tales. We have this perception that fairy tales are children's stories, but historically these stories we told before mixed adult/child groups, and they are not necessarily child-appropriate.
I know some people pick up your books for their kids thinking they are like Disney novelizations, and are kinda shocked when they see what happens in the fairy tale retellings.Do you think about an intended audience when you are writing? Or do you just write the story, and if it turns out child-appropriate, great!
Is YA intentional?Edit: word. I write the story as it comes to me. I was surprised to find out I'm considered 'YA' and have in fact kicked like fury against being jammed into this pigeonhole.
I mind less now as (see above) YA is now mainstream and less of a ghetto. But I have no sympathy with grownups who hand books they haven't checked first to kids and then blame the author if they're 'inappropriate'. Do your homework, honey.
If you don't want to read a book yourself, find someone who will or has, or look it up on Google or amazon and read the reviews. And I've been known to be extremely rude when people tell me I've 'betrayed my audience' by writing this or that: DEERSKIN and SUNSHINE come in for the most of this-which were originally sold and marketed as adult-although Aerin having two lovers doesn't go over well either, nor Eric's language and sexual preferences.