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Do you have any plans re writing a novel? Also I loved a brief and fearful star!
Carmen Maria Machado Maybe one day! (And thank you!)
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I LOVED "Her Body and Other Parties" - your way of finding the ordinary in the strange and the strange in the ordinary reminds me a lot of my favorite work from Sarah Ruhl and Kelly Link. What writers would you consider to be your influences?
Carmen Maria Machado Kelly Link, Karen Russell, Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Helen Oyeyemi.
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From your collection, “Her Body And Other Parties” which Story would you most likely develop first into a novel length work?
Carmen Maria Machado I don't think any of the stories in HBAOP are novel-length ideas! So probably none of them.
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Your book is blowing my mind. Thank you for writing it. Hopefully I won't miss you [if/when] next time you come through Denver (!). ...and Goodeads requires me to post a question mark here, so here goes: --> ?
Carmen Maria Machado Thank you so much!
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Not really a question but I'd die for you! Thanks! ?
Carmen Maria Machado You don't have to die for me! I want you to live!
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