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Intervju med Alyson Noël

For en stund siden var jeg med på å lage et videointervju med Alyson Noël, og siden vi har vampyrer og andre udøde som tema denne måneden, passer det veldig godt å ta frem dette igjen. Alyson Noël har nemlig skapt sin egen type udødelig i De udødelige serien. De er ikke vampyrer, men de definitivt like kule og mystiske og mye mer originale. Uten å spoile serien for mye kan jeg nevne at de har en god del evner som jeg misunner (de kan få ting til å eksistere bare ved å tenke hardt på det) og noen jeg ikke misunner i det hele tatt (de leser tanker, og kjenner jeg meg selv rett ville jeg blitt utrolig irritert hvis jeg konstant måtte høre alt som surrer oppi hodene på folk. Det er distraherende nok med det som surrer i mitt).

Hvis du vil vite mer om Alyson Noël og hennes bøker kan du ta en titt på videoen under.

Intervju med Amy Plum

Jeg, sammen med Emilie denne gangen, har også hatt gleden av å intervjue Amy Plum. Hun er forfatteren av Våk over meg trilogien og med disse bøkene fant hun opp det hun kaller "revenants". De er mennesker som har blitt udødelige gjennom å ha ofret livet sitt for noen andres. De er derimot ikke bare udødelige, de er bundet til å fortsette å ofre seg for å redde andres liv igjen og igjen. I intervjuet vi gjorde med henne forklarer hun hvordan hun kom opp med ideen om revenants.

"... I started thinking about what type of supernatural character Kate would fall in love with. And so I made a list, which I still have, of everything that I could think of: vampires, werewolves, unicorns. I had like everything: mummies, gods, satyrs, anything and everything you could find in Narnia. I had the whole thing worked out and I was thinking about each of them seriously. For some of them, like vampires I thought that so much has been written already, that I don't feel like I can add anything. And I hate following. I like creating original things of my own. So I was running over things in my mind; no vampires, werewolves, I just think of slobber, like lots of spit, and that's gross, and anything else, everything, just seemed a little bit wrong. Until I started thinking about zombies.

Zombies have an allure for me because they could be from anywhere in history. I'm an art historian, I got my masters in art history and so I love history. And I thought: I could have people from different eras. Maybe I could mix zombies and gods, and if I could have a mix of the two, they could maybe even be sexy. So that's how I started coming up with the idea for revenants.

However, in my first draft I only used the word zombie. I wrote up to the part where Vincent and Kate are kissing. It's their first kiss on the Pont des Arts bridge and I had just written zombie and I thought, "No. I can't use the word zombie. You can't kiss a zombie, there's the smell, and there's the limbs dropping off. It's just not sexy. At all." That's when I decided to come up with my own word for what I was writing about. I thought I’d used the French word "revenant". My ex is French so I ran in the house and I said, "What does revenant mean to you? In the dictionary it just says ghost." And he's like, "Well it's more than a ghost, it's like a ghost that comes back for a reason, for a purpose." and I was like "Perfect! That's what it will be." So that's the way I came up with the idea for the story. First starting with the character Kate, building off of her story. What kind of supernatural character would she fall in love with? One whose reason for existing was to save people's lives, like her parents perhaps, if he was there."

Hvis du vil lese resten av intervjuet kan du gjøre det her.