Tash Junor
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Juliet Marillier:
Dear Juliet, Thank you for the inspiration your books have been to me. They are my favourites, and I especially loved Tower of Thorns. I was just curious as to why Grim and Blackthorn's perspectives were written in first person, but the chapters for Geiléis were written in third? I can't wait for the third! Thank you again, Natasha.
Juliet Marillier
SPOILER ALERT (for Tower of Thorns)
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Hi Natasha and thank you for the nice comments. I chose first person for Blackthorn and Grim because I really wanted to get inside their heads and explore their psychology, also to let the reader know what each was thinking about the other. Present tense for Grim because he is a man of the moment. Third person for Geiléis because she keeps secrets that the reader must not know until late in the book (more difficult in first person), and because she slips into telling the Lily and Ash story, and also because she dies at the end of the book - first person always suggests that the character at some point tells their story to someone else, and that doesn't work if they are no longer around to do so.
Den of Wolves has four narrators - Blackthorn, Grim, a young woman and an older man. Hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew.
All the best, Juliet
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Hi Natasha and thank you for the nice comments. I chose first person for Blackthorn and Grim because I really wanted to get inside their heads and explore their psychology, also to let the reader know what each was thinking about the other. Present tense for Grim because he is a man of the moment. Third person for Geiléis because she keeps secrets that the reader must not know until late in the book (more difficult in first person), and because she slips into telling the Lily and Ash story, and also because she dies at the end of the book - first person always suggests that the character at some point tells their story to someone else, and that doesn't work if they are no longer around to do so.
Den of Wolves has four narrators - Blackthorn, Grim, a young woman and an older man. Hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew.
All the best, Juliet
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Juliet Marillier:
In the research and construction of your books, why kind of role does historical or technical research play, and how flexibly do you incorporate or interpret it for the purpose of the story? Your books have such detail and sense of place to feel believable and present, and still the fantasy aspects fit so seamlessly in with reality.
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