Isabel Sterling
Isabel Sterling asked Anna Bright:

What an interesting premise for THE BEHOLDER! Was there something in particular that inspired the story?

Anna Bright i was blow-drying my hair one day and it just... happened.
ok there's more to the story than that. i'd been working on applying to grad school, writing intense academic essays, studying for the English lit GRE. i'd broken my brain, basically. and then i finished. and i went to the library and got a fairy tale compilation and THE HOST by stephenie meyer, and i read them both in like two sittings. and then i was getting ready to go somewhere, i was blow drying my hair, and the initial idea for THE BEHOLDER smacked me in the brain.
(i didn't go to grad school. i did write that book, though.)

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