Eric Mortensen
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Jonathan Stroud:
You've created strong female characters (Kitty, Asmira and Lucy) that differ from current SciFi/Fantasy in their focus on their mission and less worried about romantic entanglements with your male characters. Among the factors driving your creative concept do you have a daughter and are you consciously seeking to distinguish the role of the women in your stories in a way that is distinct from other literary trends?
Jonathan Stroud
I don't know if it's a conscious thing: it's more an intuitive response to the women I know in my own life. I'm surrounded by strong females in several generations, who aren't solely defined by their romantic natures (though they certainly have them). So my heroines tend to keep that side of them bottled up, though it's definitely present...
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Krishnaa Lakshmanan
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Jonathan Stroud:
When writing, how do you work? Do you have music on? Do you munch on something? Or do you prefer a nice sunlit garden to write in? As a writer, I'm curious! I for myself find music with lyrics to disturb with the rhythm a bit. Also I always tend to feel hungry when I sit down to write! Even now, I've gone some cashew nuts on the table (argh, there are ants now!)!
A Goodreads user
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Jonathan Stroud:
+also appear in this world? If so, how will anyone negate the source, assuming the source is the actual ship underwater? (Also I have already read the Hollow boy and it was amazing. I bit my nails to nubs by the end of it and that cliffhanger oh my god. Such a beautiful book. Thank you so much for being so awesome :)
Keian
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Jonathan Stroud:
My friends and I have been discussing, and have come to the conclusion that the hollow boy is no ghost, but Anthony Lockwood himself. If this is true, did you know from the moment you started the series that Lockwood would be a "hollow boy?" Is that why he seems so detached at points in the books?
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