What of the things that most appeals to me about you as an author is that you’re also about to publish your children’s novel, Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians . What compelled you to write a children’s novel and how does it differ from writing a novel for adults?
Alcatraz actually started out as a freewrite. I’d been deep into the Mistborn books, and needed a break from their complexity and darkness. I decided to come up with something completely silly, so I wrote down a sentence that I’d thought of recently, and just started adding to it. When I finished I sent it to my agent, even though it was very different than what I’d written before. He suggested marketing it for kids, which we did, and it worked! In writing a children’s novel I have to keep things simpler and shorter than I do when writing for adults—fewer viewpoint characters, simpler plot construction, more straightforward language. I actually really enjoy the variety of doing both types of novels.
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