Ask the Author: Corinne Duyvis
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Corinne Duyvis
I had no input on that element of the audiobook, I'm afraid; I don't know why the narrator/producer made that choice for Iris.
It's been a few years since I wrote the book so I'd need to go back to re-read some passages to remember whether I had a specific age in mind, but Iris definitely started hormone blockers before puberty kicked in.
It's been a few years since I wrote the book so I'd need to go back to re-read some passages to remember whether I had a specific age in mind, but Iris definitely started hormone blockers before puberty kicked in.
Corinne Duyvis
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
It's always hard choosing favorites, particularly between the two protagonists, so I'm going to cheat and choose from the secondary characters. I would say that my favorite character is Cilla. She's spoiled but sweet, well-intentioned but clueless, tough but scared, and traumatized but idealistic. I truly enjoyed figuring out what someone in her situation might be like.
On the other hand, Nolan's sister Pat was the most straight-up fun to write. The book can get pretty gloomy, and I think it really needed someone like Pat as a down-to-earth voice and source of humor. She's also one of the only characters in the book who developed entirely on the page rather than as a result of brainstorming beforehand. In chapter three, someone I never accounted for knocked on the bathroom door, and she grew from there.
It's always hard choosing favorites, particularly between the two protagonists, so I'm going to cheat and choose from the secondary characters. I would say that my favorite character is Cilla. She's spoiled but sweet, well-intentioned but clueless, tough but scared, and traumatized but idealistic. I truly enjoyed figuring out what someone in her situation might be like.
On the other hand, Nolan's sister Pat was the most straight-up fun to write. The book can get pretty gloomy, and I think it really needed someone like Pat as a down-to-earth voice and source of humor. She's also one of the only characters in the book who developed entirely on the page rather than as a result of brainstorming beforehand. In chapter three, someone I never accounted for knocked on the bathroom door, and she grew from there.
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Nov 06, 2020 10:54PM · flag