Particularly Peculiar

AHHH-MAZING costumes at tonight's peculiar costume ball in Atlanta!! (at Little Shop of Stories)

I love my PH fans (and so does Tahereh)! We came twice in the past 3 years -- and it’s a looooong trip! -- so I think it’ll be a while before we come back, though we would definitely like to some day. And Palawan is beautiful!! 

A little essay I wrote about writing Miss Peregrine (the book, not the character), starting over, and happy accidents in fiction. 

No, the ones that have my signature in them, I actually signed! (My hand still hurts!) : )

OK guys, I gotta sign off now, but thanks a million for all your Answer Time questions! I hope you had half as much fun as I did. Keep sending questions and I’ll answer them in days to come! 

Not really, It all depends on your style and if you can pull it off. If you’ve ever read George Sunders, you’ll see that the story can get SUPER crazy but still be brilliant and have a lot of important things to say about modern life.

Thank you! dialogue and scene-work is always spontaneous and comes to me as I’m writing. In fact, I often find myself silently acting out the roles of the various characters in the scene -- gesturing and making facial expressions and such -- which is why I can’t write in coffee shops. I’d be arrested.

It felt like a magical place to me! And one that, besides the Arthurian legends, didn’t already have a ton of fantasy literature attached to it. (Harry Potter lives in Scotland, for instance, so that was taken.)

Those peculiar folktales were some of the most fun parts of Hollow City to write, and I’d actually love to write a whole book of them. Not sure when I’ll have time, but maybe one day!