Interview with Jeannette Bedard, Author of Hope is the Thing With Feathers

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to put in writing Hope is the Thing With Feathers?

I created the world of New Venus and it’s metropolis of floating islands as a brief stopover for an additional e-book, however the place caught with me. It was a futuristic world the place airships made sense—and I like airships. But what obtained me began on the story was studying a e-book of Emily Dickinson poems and stumbling upon ‘Hope is the Thing With Feathers’ at that time my most important character, Stella, got here into being and her voyage of hope started.

If you needed to choose theme songs for the most important characters of Hope is the Thing With Feathers, what would they be?

I don’t have a theme tune, however I did put collectively a color palate for descending by way of New Venus’ ambiance. The shades get darker and moodier the deeper the airship goes.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to put in writing?

Science fiction is my default style – I like exploring fantastical new worlds (most not too long ago I’ve been searching for cozy mysteries set in house). However, I learn so much of fantasy as effectively.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

I’m deep into Winter, the final e-book of Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronic

What scene in your e-book was your favourite to put in writing?

When I used to be a child, my grandparents had a e-book of fairytales. The e-book was previous again then, so I wouldn’t be stunned if it dated again to the Victorian period. It had a pair of colored pages in it—scenes from a pair of the tales. One was of a glass hall below the ocean with a person wanting up at the ocean life above. For some purpose that picture resonated with me, and eventually on this e-book, I wrote my very own tackle it.

Do you could have any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so on.)

I’m closely into notebooks and colored pens. I’ve piles of crammed notebooks of world constructing concepts, plot schemes and doodles.

Do you could have a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

Dory from Finding Nemo mentioned it finest – “just keep swimming.”

If you possibly can select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your e-book, what would it not be?

One of my goals is to create a wonder-filled alien world and I hope that readers take some of that surprise away with them.