Moth wonders that a little too hard and ends up in a bad situation because of it. I want them to understand why Moth makes the choices she does all throughout the book, because it’s pretty natural to be a kid and wonder what it would be like to be someone else. What do you hope for readers to be thinking when they read your novel? So I wanted to put Moth in a story that spotlights those problems and see her learn to face them. But, it doesn’t address a lot of the stuff that bothers her the most in her life: bullies, the rigid standards and culture of her small town, her insecurities about growing up and who she’s going to be. I think a good sequel should really take a look at the first story and go “Okay, what would be next for them? What do they still need?” In Moth’s case, she’s had this whole new magical world opened up to her and it was so exciting to discover that part of herself. There’s not much I can share yet, but I want to make things with plenty of comedy, fun characters, and a little bit of magic.Ĭan you tell us when you started THE OKAY WITCH AND THE HUNGRY SHADOW, how that came about? What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us? But it’s good to take breaks and live your life, that truly helps me come back to my work fresh. So, often, I’d rather be doing that than staring at my screen waiting for an idea to come.
But I also love hanging out, watching movies and cooking with my roommates. The coronavirus lockdown kept me inside most of the time, which was pretty good motivation for just sitting down and cranking out pages. What was the single worst distraction that kept you from writing this book? I love answering students’ questions and having conversations about writing, illustration, and making books. Visiting schools and libraries, whether that’s been in person or online. Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published. It makes me feel a little bit better and that’s something. I don’t know if I can get to the nucleus of it the same way, but I know how it feels to be experiencing something hard or confusing in real life and remember when someone in a story went through something similar. Anthropologists and sociologists (who have better answers than I do) suggest that stories help us explain things to each other and make sense of the way things are. It must be pretty important because humans have been telling stories forever. Why is storytelling so important for all of us? I think school made me value knowing the right questions to ask, which I find more helpful than always knowing the right answers (which is just sort of impossible). What was the greatest thing you learned at school?
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