(In light of this, it probably won’t surprise you that I like making collages.)Ģ) Do you know (or have you known) any children that you secretly suspect might be changelings? (I have, but this is about YOU, not me.
The Replacement owes a lot to Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” because I knew I wanted that same kind of creepy-town vibe, but it also draws a lot from punk music and Victorian culture and my abject terror of water I can’t see the bottom of. I think my influences function in sort of the same way. I try not to be messy about it (much), but I save everything, and everything seems interesting and fun and like it might come in handy someday. What was it that sparked the idea for this book?įirst, I need to put this out there: I am a huge pack-rat. Sometimes it’s easy to identify an author’s influences, but I must admit, I’m drawing a blank here.
1) The Replacement is one of the most original stories that I’ve read in recent years.
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