Ask the Author: Megan Carney
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Megan Carney
It's very therapeutic. Throwing your characters into situations that are a thousand times worse than what you face in real life gives you permission to feel overwhelmed, sad, angry . . . whatever it is you need to do. And then find a way through what seems impossible to handle.
Megan Carney
I'm a news junkie and international politics has always fascinated me. So many countries with so many competing interests. Even if you're the rare person who's always trying to do right thing, sometimes there's just no good options. In most of my books, the characters have to make difficult choices and then wrestle with how to live with themselves afterward.
Megan Carney
I'm working on a novel about the feeling of living through the pandemic and the rise of conspiracy theories. Some days it feels like an alien abduction movie - like your friends and family have been replaced by people who believe things that just don't make sense. Like our collective loneliness has led to some mass insanity. I don't know the way out. So I thought I'd write about it and see if I can find one.
Megan Carney
I went through a kick where I read a lot of books on North Korea. The country's history is fascinating in a terrible way. The recent history of Korea is really a history of cold war maneuvers. At the end of the second world war, Korea was divided into two occupation zones by the Allied powers, one managed by the USSR and one managed by the United States. These zones were supposed to be temporary.
But then the cold war happened. Kim Il Sung was put in charge by the USSR. And he built the dictatorship that's still in place today. There's so much suffering inside North Korea. And outside of North Korea, the dictatorship is responsible for criminal enterprises and regularly threatens South Korea.
I guess the book is kind of a wish. What if North Korea didn't have nuclear weapons? Would the world finally be able to weaken the dictatorship's murderous hold on its people?
But then the cold war happened. Kim Il Sung was put in charge by the USSR. And he built the dictatorship that's still in place today. There's so much suffering inside North Korea. And outside of North Korea, the dictatorship is responsible for criminal enterprises and regularly threatens South Korea.
I guess the book is kind of a wish. What if North Korea didn't have nuclear weapons? Would the world finally be able to weaken the dictatorship's murderous hold on its people?
Megan Carney
I once got a text message from a stranger on a number I'd had for years saying "If she calls say you're my sister, otherwise we're doomed".
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