Today we are hosting the Triple Threat Blog Tour with Megan Miranda, author of Hysteria! She dropped by to answer a few questions for us!
***********************************
1.) Where did the
idea for Hysteria come from?
I got a sense of character first, and the
idea that she would have killed her boyfriend at the start of the book. But the
idea that became the story started after I had been researching for a bit. I
was looking into stories about memories and hauntings, and I got carried away
thinking about all the things that can haunt, and in all the ways those things
can haunt.
2.) The cover is
so cool! Did you have any say in how it
progressed? (If not, what was it like seeing it for the first time?)
I didn't come up
with the concept, but when they sent me the image they were hoping to use for
my feedback, I did a double-take. Then I got a chill. And then I thought… perfect. It captures the mood and the
tone, and the "is this really real, or is this all in my head?"
element perfectly.
3.) What’s it like
to right about the blurred edges of madness?
It's like walking
a very fine line. I want to make sure *I* keep a very firm grasp on what's
happening to keep the story grounded, but to allow that fear and confusion to
translate without becoming confusing (wait, is that confusing?)
Honestly, it took
me a while to get there. I’d get notes back that marked large passages that said
“too confusing” or “unclear” in draft after draft from both my critique
partners and my editor. So a lot of the process was finding that line, walking
across it, and learning how to balance.
4.) What projects
are you working on right now?
I'm working on
revisions for my 2014 book, which is a sequel/companion to Fracture. It's told
from Decker's point of view and takes place about 8 months after the events in
Fracture. It's about the idea of a curse, and how people can believe, and also
how it can take people over….
I'm also working
on a few different projects for what comes next. All have a bit of a thriller
element to them, in very different forms.
5.) Just for fun,
what’s your favorite:
Drink: Diet Coke
Food: Mac &
cheese
Animal: It’s not
that I don’t like animals. It’s just that they don’t seem to like me so much…
Song: Changes by
the moment, depending on my mood. And also on what I’m writing J
Book: Impossible
question! I always default to the best most-recent book I’ve read. Which, at
the moment, is Gone Girl.
Vacation Spot: The
beach
