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INTERVIEWER: At last year's Bologna Book Fair, everyone was buzzing about THE পান্না ATLAS. Now it is licensed in over 35 countries, with আরো on the horizon. As a debut novelist, what has this experience been like for you?
JOHN STEPHENS: Totally bananas. Though honestly, the nice thing about the book selling in so many territories before it's published is that now expectations are so high that there is no way I can meet them. I'm bound to disappoint. It's very freeing knowing that.
Okay, but really honestly— where I've felt it is in the pressure during the লেখা of the সেকেন্ড book. With the first book, I wrote it আরো অথবা less in secret and there was never much expectation I was going to get anyone besides my wife to read it. So basically, zero pressure. Now, with the সেকেন্ড book, there're people waiting, asking how it's going… It's sort of like with the first book, আপনি manage to pull a rabbit out of a hat in the privacy of your own room. With the সেকেন্ড book, আপনি have to do it again, only this time you're on stage in front of a thousand people and there's a worldwide rabbit-shortage.
IN: Tell us about THE পান্না ATLAS, the first book in the বই of Beginning Trilogy.
JS: It's the story of three children, two sisters and a brother, who have been ripped from their parents while babies, and are then shuttled along from orphanage to orphanage for ten years, till they're finally sent to a mysterious mansion where they stumble upon a magic book that allows them to travel through time. Along the way, the children encounter a host of magical creatures (dwarves, wizards, monsters), discover they are at the center of an ancient prophesy, and seek to prevent a tragedy. Looking forward, the বই tell the story of how the three children, in the process of trying to put their family back together, end up having to save the world.
There are also a lot of jokes.
IN: The theme of family and the relationship between siblings Kate, Michael and Emma is so central to this story. Can আপনি talk about how your own childhood informed the development of these characters?
Like Michael, the boy in the story, I am the middle brother of two sisters. Like Michael, I was also picked on FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON দ্বারা MY SISTERS EVEN WHEN I WAS TOTALLY INNOCENT AND HAD DONE NOTHING AT ALL EXCEPT MAYBE THAT ONE TIME WHEN I PUT A DEAD SNAKE IN MY SISTER'S বিছানা AND I TOTALLY TOTALLY APOLOGIZED FOR THAT!!!
Okay, but seriously, I am the middle brother of two sisters, and though we are not as close in age as the children in the book, our dynamic was similar. We'd squabble, argue, and then when it mattered, we'd be there for each other. Then, as soon as the crisis was over, we'd squabble again.
Also, the time I put the dead snake in my sister's বিছানা was actually kinda funny.
IN: Sibling rivalry…tell us about it! Did আপনি let your sisters read the book while আপনি were working on it, অথবা did আপনি hide it from them?
JS: My sisters did not read the book till I was done. Then my older sister read it first and really liked it. My younger sister, whose name is Kate, I sent it to her, waited, waited…she kept promising to read it. Finally, she heard that one of the characters was named Kate, and so she read it, thinking I might have put in incriminating things about her past. Of course, now she goes around telling everyone, “My brother wrote this book. I'm kinda the hero of it.” She's been telling me that she's having her book club read it when the book comes out. But I just learned that there's actually only one other person in her book club, who happens to be our cousin, who I also know happens to hate books, so it's not exactly Oprah.
IN: Finish the sentence – Kate is…
JS: a surrogate mother to her brother and sister. Forced to shoulder responsibility when she's still very young. She's strong, resourceful, ব্রেভ and extremely loyal. She keeps her word.
IN: Michael is…
JS: bookish. Probably takes himself a bit too seriously. Has a well-document admiration for dwarves. His idea of a great vacation would either involve going to the লাইব্রেরি অথবা a dwarf castle. Best—a লাইব্রেরি inside a dwarf castle; he'd be in heaven.
IN: Emma is…
JS: a pint-size brawler, always spoiling for a fight, but she's also got an enormous heart. She's both intensely feisty and intensely vulnerable.
IN: Which character in the book do আপনি identify with most?
JS: If I'm honest, probably Michael, for his studiousness, his desire to document the world around him, his relationship with his sisters, his glasses. Also, I gave him my own প্রণয় of dwarves which I had when I was his age. Growing up, I'd read ফ্যান্টাসি books, and the elves were always described as being so perfect that it annoyed me. Mostly because it was clear I was never going to be an elf. But the dwarves! They sang songs, had feasts, took naps. I felt like being a dwarf would be a lot আরো fun. So Michael and I share that.
IN: The countess is rather terrifying. Can we ask who inspired that character?
JS: No one in particular. However, my years in টেলিভিশন (Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Gossip Girl) gave me a great deal of experience লেখা evil, heartless teenage girls. It's well known in Hollywood that if আপনি want someone to write a conniving, back-biting seventeen-year-old, আপনি get John Stephens on the phone. The only thing that set the Countess apart from others I've written was that she had magical powers. And there's something else about her too, but I don't want to spoil the story.
IN: What do আপনি hope young readers will come away with when they read THE পান্না ATLAS?
JS: Number 1: They're not bored. I really really hope that. Number 2: The idea of family. The idea that magic aside, it was these kids প্রণয় for each other that saw them through. Number 3: That they're not bored. That's like, really important. Did I say that? Number 4: That বই can be magic. Whether it's like the book Kate, Michael and Emma find that takes them through time, অথবা a book আপনি read that takes আপনি on an adventure to another world. Number 5: That they're not bored.
IN: Time travel plays into the plot of this book. Did আপনি have to do extensive research so that আপনি could incorporate it, অথবা did আপনি know the ins and outs when আপনি started out?
JS: When I turned in my draft to my agent, he asked me, “So which theory of time travel are আপনি using?” And I had to respond, “Um…the one I'm making up as I go?”
That didn't cut it.
So yes, then I went back and I researched the various theories of time travel. There are, as আপনি probably know, three main theories of time travel that get used in fiction (the multiple strands theory, the single, unmutable time stream theory, and the single, mutable time stream theory). I chose to use the single, mutable time stream theory (which is used to such beautiful effect in the first Back to the Future). The secret of লেখা a time travel book is (and witness the anecdote above, I learned this the hard way) to decide the theory you're to use, decide whatever new অথবা altered rules you're going to apply to that theory—AND THEN STICK TO IT. Time travel can be extremely confusing, but in the end, your book will not make coherent sense, and the reader will feel cheated, if you're breaking your own rules. And the rules, দ্বারা the way, can be as bonkersville as আপনি like, but they have to be clear, and আপনি have to hold to them.
The biggest problem with the theory of time travel that I chose was that each time someone goes back in time, the time line changes, and only the time traveler knows what's different, so then I had to have multiple graphs to keep track of how things were changing. Also, there's the real danger of simple information overload with a time travel story, of burying your reader and yourself in exposition. আপনি need to be careful and very selective about what you're going to include and exclude.
IN: আপনি spent many years in টেলিভিশন with লেখা and producing credits including Gilmore Girls, The O.C. and Gossip Girl. How did আপনি make the transition from লেখা for that audience, to লেখা a novel for young readers?
JS: It's strange, but when I wrote The পান্না Atlas, the idea that it was a novel for younger readers never played into its composition. I knew I was going to write a ফ্যান্টাসি novel that was in the tradition of Narnia and Rowling and Philip Pullman, but after that, I just wrote the book I wanted to write. There was never any sort of adjustment অথবা gauge for the fact that it was intended for younger readers.
If anything, the adjustment in my লেখা had happened in the other direction, when I'd written television. All of those shows had clear voices and audiences and formats. Each episode was forty-three মিনিট with five অথবা six commercial breaks. With a novel, আপনি can write whatever আপনি want it to be. লেখা টেলিভিশন requires a great deal আরো thought in terms making sure something fits the appropriate template.
I feel like that's a really boring answer. Sorry.
IN: What is your লেখা process like? Do আপনি already have all three বই mapped out?
JS: With The পান্না Atlas, I knew where I was going very early on. I had the ending, আরো অথবা less, and then I just had a find a way of getting there. It's saying, “I know I have to get to Chicago, but I have no idea where Chicago is অথবা how to get there, and I'm going to start দ্বারা going south from Dallas.” But eventually আপনি end up in Chicago and then আপনি go back and cut out all the uninteresting detours, so that to someone hearing the story, your trip to Chicago sounds purposeful and exciting with cool twists. Hmm, I think that metaphor kinda got away from me.
But also, sometimes I don't have the ending. I have the character. অথবা a scene. And I'll write that scene, which will take me somewhere else. At the beginning of a book, I sort of just write a lot of material to see what I have, and then I start to take that and outline it on a big white-board in my office. I like to have a general outline, with the points I know I'm going to hit along the way, but an outline which is still loose enough so that things can surprise me in the writing.
In terms of routine, I like to say that I'm a morning writer. But really that just means mornings are my best time. I write in the afternoons sometimes too, but that's usually garbage. But I get up early, usually 4:30 অথবা 5, have a cup of coffee and start work. I guess the most important part of my schedule is that I work in two ঘন্টা sessions and during that time don't answer the phone অথবা check যন্ত্রপত্র অথবা even go into the রান্নাঘর for a donut if I'm hungry. Which can be awful because sometimes when you're writing, আপনি really really want a donut, and in fact আপনি can even convince yourself that if only আপনি had a donut আপনি could figure out that plot hole in Chapter Seven. Those days are hard. Man, those days are hard. Man, I প্রণয় donuts. You've already begun to hear feedback from your kid readers. Any particularly funny/surprising/off the দেওয়াল মতামত to share?
Hm, probably the most surprising প্রশ্ন I got was, “Will Emma and Gabriel get married?” To that, I can say, with complete assurance, “No.”
IN: What were your পছন্দ বই growing up? How about now?
JS: Growing up, I was a huge অনুরাগী of Tolkien's বই (see my মতামত on my dwarf affection above). The Narnia বই had a huge impact on me. Particularly The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. For me, that book had and still has the feeling of real magic. I loved the Tarzan series when I was young, and I went through a whole phase of trying to convince my mother to let me eat my hamburger raw (she refused). And I was, and remain, a big Roald Dahl fan. I loved his sense of humor and feel for the grotesque and how terrible things did happen to the characters; his বই were not safe.
As far as my পছন্দ বই now, all of the above with the exception of Tarzan, which has not aged well. To that তালিকা in the YA world, I would also add Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy which truly changed my life দ্বারা convincing me that I wanted to write children's fantasy. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan; প্রদত্ত any fictional world to live in, I would choose Hogwarts. I re-read Edith Nesbit's Bastable বই frequently. I প্রণয় the way the children are with each other. Her humor is perfectly nuanced. In the adult world, just to name a few, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace (that's right!) and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
শীর্ষ Ten MoviesHis Girl Friday
Casablanca
The Wild Bunch
Badlands TIE The Yakuza Papers
Memories of Murder
Castles in the Skye
Sullivan's Travels TIE Purple প্রজাপতি
Together
Iron Giant TIE Shogun Assassin
The Third Man
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শীর্ষ Ten BooksCatcher in the Rye দ্বারা J. D. Salinger
The Golden Compass দ্বারা Philip Pullman
The Sun Also Rises দ্বারা Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit দ্বারা J. R. R. Tolkien
Great Expectations TIE David Copperfield দ্বারা Charles “the Man” Dickens
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell দ্বারা Susanna Clarke
Transit of Venus দ্বারা Shirley Hazzard
The Biographical Dictionary of Film দ্বারা David Thompson
Emma দ্বারা Jane Austen
Blood Meridian দ্বারা Cormac McCarthy
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INTERVIEWER: At last year's Bologna Book Fair, everyone was buzzing about THE পান্না ATLAS. Now it is licensed in over 35 countries, with আরো on the horizon. As a debut novelist, what has this experience been like for you?
JOHN STEPHENS: Totally bananas. Though honestly, the nice thing about the book selling in so many territories before it's published is that now expectations are so high that there is no way I can meet them. I'm bound to disappoint. It's very freeing knowing that.
Okay, but really honestly— where I've felt it is in the pressure during the লেখা of the সেকেন্ড book. With the first book, I wrote it আরো অথবা less in secret and there was never much expectation I was going to get anyone besides my wife to read it. So basically, zero pressure. Now, with the সেকেন্ড book, there're people waiting, asking how it's going… It's sort of like with the first book, আপনি manage to pull a rabbit out of a hat in the privacy of your own room. With the সেকেন্ড book, আপনি have to do it again, only this time you're on stage in front of a thousand people and there's a worldwide rabbit-shortage.
IN: Tell us about THE পান্না ATLAS, the first book in the বই of Beginning Trilogy.
JS: It's the story of three children, two sisters and a brother, who have been ripped from their parents while babies, and are then shuttled along from orphanage to orphanage for ten years, till they're finally sent to a mysterious mansion where they stumble upon a magic book that allows them to travel through time. Along the way, the children encounter a host of magical creatures (dwarves, wizards, monsters), discover they are at the center of an ancient prophesy, and seek to prevent a tragedy. Looking forward, the বই tell the story of how the three children, in the process of trying to put their family back together, end up having to save the world.
There are also a lot of jokes.
IN: The theme of family and the relationship between siblings Kate, Michael and Emma is so central to this story. Can আপনি talk about how your own childhood informed the development of these characters?
Like Michael, the boy in the story, I am the middle brother of two sisters. Like Michael, I was also picked on FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON দ্বারা MY SISTERS EVEN WHEN I WAS TOTALLY INNOCENT AND HAD DONE NOTHING AT ALL EXCEPT MAYBE THAT ONE TIME WHEN I PUT A DEAD SNAKE IN MY SISTER'S বিছানা AND I TOTALLY TOTALLY APOLOGIZED FOR THAT!!!
Okay, but seriously, I am the middle brother of two sisters, and though we are not as close in age as the children in the book, our dynamic was similar. We'd squabble, argue, and then when it mattered, we'd be there for each other. Then, as soon as the crisis was over, we'd squabble again.
Also, the time I put the dead snake in my sister's বিছানা was actually kinda funny.
IN: Sibling rivalry…tell us about it! Did আপনি let your sisters read the book while আপনি were working on it, অথবা did আপনি hide it from them?
JS: My sisters did not read the book till I was done. Then my older sister read it first and really liked it. My younger sister, whose name is Kate, I sent it to her, waited, waited…she kept promising to read it. Finally, she heard that one of the characters was named Kate, and so she read it, thinking I might have put in incriminating things about her past. Of course, now she goes around telling everyone, “My brother wrote this book. I'm kinda the hero of it.” She's been telling me that she's having her book club read it when the book comes out. But I just learned that there's actually only one other person in her book club, who happens to be our cousin, who I also know happens to hate books, so it's not exactly Oprah.
IN: Finish the sentence – Kate is…
JS: a surrogate mother to her brother and sister. Forced to shoulder responsibility when she's still very young. She's strong, resourceful, ব্রেভ and extremely loyal. She keeps her word.
IN: Michael is…
JS: bookish. Probably takes himself a bit too seriously. Has a well-document admiration for dwarves. His idea of a great vacation would either involve going to the লাইব্রেরি অথবা a dwarf castle. Best—a লাইব্রেরি inside a dwarf castle; he'd be in heaven.
IN: Emma is…
JS: a pint-size brawler, always spoiling for a fight, but she's also got an enormous heart. She's both intensely feisty and intensely vulnerable.
IN: Which character in the book do আপনি identify with most?
JS: If I'm honest, probably Michael, for his studiousness, his desire to document the world around him, his relationship with his sisters, his glasses. Also, I gave him my own প্রণয় of dwarves which I had when I was his age. Growing up, I'd read ফ্যান্টাসি books, and the elves were always described as being so perfect that it annoyed me. Mostly because it was clear I was never going to be an elf. But the dwarves! They sang songs, had feasts, took naps. I felt like being a dwarf would be a lot আরো fun. So Michael and I share that.
IN: The countess is rather terrifying. Can we ask who inspired that character?
JS: No one in particular. However, my years in টেলিভিশন (Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Gossip Girl) gave me a great deal of experience লেখা evil, heartless teenage girls. It's well known in Hollywood that if আপনি want someone to write a conniving, back-biting seventeen-year-old, আপনি get John Stephens on the phone. The only thing that set the Countess apart from others I've written was that she had magical powers. And there's something else about her too, but I don't want to spoil the story.
IN: What do আপনি hope young readers will come away with when they read THE পান্না ATLAS?
JS: Number 1: They're not bored. I really really hope that. Number 2: The idea of family. The idea that magic aside, it was these kids প্রণয় for each other that saw them through. Number 3: That they're not bored. That's like, really important. Did I say that? Number 4: That বই can be magic. Whether it's like the book Kate, Michael and Emma find that takes them through time, অথবা a book আপনি read that takes আপনি on an adventure to another world. Number 5: That they're not bored.
IN: Time travel plays into the plot of this book. Did আপনি have to do extensive research so that আপনি could incorporate it, অথবা did আপনি know the ins and outs when আপনি started out?
JS: When I turned in my draft to my agent, he asked me, “So which theory of time travel are আপনি using?” And I had to respond, “Um…the one I'm making up as I go?”
That didn't cut it.
So yes, then I went back and I researched the various theories of time travel. There are, as আপনি probably know, three main theories of time travel that get used in fiction (the multiple strands theory, the single, unmutable time stream theory, and the single, mutable time stream theory). I chose to use the single, mutable time stream theory (which is used to such beautiful effect in the first Back to the Future). The secret of লেখা a time travel book is (and witness the anecdote above, I learned this the hard way) to decide the theory you're to use, decide whatever new অথবা altered rules you're going to apply to that theory—AND THEN STICK TO IT. Time travel can be extremely confusing, but in the end, your book will not make coherent sense, and the reader will feel cheated, if you're breaking your own rules. And the rules, দ্বারা the way, can be as bonkersville as আপনি like, but they have to be clear, and আপনি have to hold to them.
The biggest problem with the theory of time travel that I chose was that each time someone goes back in time, the time line changes, and only the time traveler knows what's different, so then I had to have multiple graphs to keep track of how things were changing. Also, there's the real danger of simple information overload with a time travel story, of burying your reader and yourself in exposition. আপনি need to be careful and very selective about what you're going to include and exclude.
IN: আপনি spent many years in টেলিভিশন with লেখা and producing credits including Gilmore Girls, The O.C. and Gossip Girl. How did আপনি make the transition from লেখা for that audience, to লেখা a novel for young readers?
JS: It's strange, but when I wrote The পান্না Atlas, the idea that it was a novel for younger readers never played into its composition. I knew I was going to write a ফ্যান্টাসি novel that was in the tradition of Narnia and Rowling and Philip Pullman, but after that, I just wrote the book I wanted to write. There was never any sort of adjustment অথবা gauge for the fact that it was intended for younger readers.
If anything, the adjustment in my লেখা had happened in the other direction, when I'd written television. All of those shows had clear voices and audiences and formats. Each episode was forty-three মিনিট with five অথবা six commercial breaks. With a novel, আপনি can write whatever আপনি want it to be. লেখা টেলিভিশন requires a great deal আরো thought in terms making sure something fits the appropriate template.
I feel like that's a really boring answer. Sorry.
IN: What is your লেখা process like? Do আপনি already have all three বই mapped out?
JS: With The পান্না Atlas, I knew where I was going very early on. I had the ending, আরো অথবা less, and then I just had a find a way of getting there. It's saying, “I know I have to get to Chicago, but I have no idea where Chicago is অথবা how to get there, and I'm going to start দ্বারা going south from Dallas.” But eventually আপনি end up in Chicago and then আপনি go back and cut out all the uninteresting detours, so that to someone hearing the story, your trip to Chicago sounds purposeful and exciting with cool twists. Hmm, I think that metaphor kinda got away from me.
But also, sometimes I don't have the ending. I have the character. অথবা a scene. And I'll write that scene, which will take me somewhere else. At the beginning of a book, I sort of just write a lot of material to see what I have, and then I start to take that and outline it on a big white-board in my office. I like to have a general outline, with the points I know I'm going to hit along the way, but an outline which is still loose enough so that things can surprise me in the writing.
In terms of routine, I like to say that I'm a morning writer. But really that just means mornings are my best time. I write in the afternoons sometimes too, but that's usually garbage. But I get up early, usually 4:30 অথবা 5, have a cup of coffee and start work. I guess the most important part of my schedule is that I work in two ঘন্টা sessions and during that time don't answer the phone অথবা check যন্ত্রপত্র অথবা even go into the রান্নাঘর for a donut if I'm hungry. Which can be awful because sometimes when you're writing, আপনি really really want a donut, and in fact আপনি can even convince yourself that if only আপনি had a donut আপনি could figure out that plot hole in Chapter Seven. Those days are hard. Man, those days are hard. Man, I প্রণয় donuts. You've already begun to hear feedback from your kid readers. Any particularly funny/surprising/off the দেওয়াল মতামত to share?
Hm, probably the most surprising প্রশ্ন I got was, “Will Emma and Gabriel get married?” To that, I can say, with complete assurance, “No.”
IN: What were your পছন্দ বই growing up? How about now?
JS: Growing up, I was a huge অনুরাগী of Tolkien's বই (see my মতামত on my dwarf affection above). The Narnia বই had a huge impact on me. Particularly The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. For me, that book had and still has the feeling of real magic. I loved the Tarzan series when I was young, and I went through a whole phase of trying to convince my mother to let me eat my hamburger raw (she refused). And I was, and remain, a big Roald Dahl fan. I loved his sense of humor and feel for the grotesque and how terrible things did happen to the characters; his বই were not safe.
As far as my পছন্দ বই now, all of the above with the exception of Tarzan, which has not aged well. To that তালিকা in the YA world, I would also add Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy which truly changed my life দ্বারা convincing me that I wanted to write children's fantasy. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan; প্রদত্ত any fictional world to live in, I would choose Hogwarts. I re-read Edith Nesbit's Bastable বই frequently. I প্রণয় the way the children are with each other. Her humor is perfectly nuanced. In the adult world, just to name a few, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace (that's right!) and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
শীর্ষ Ten MoviesHis Girl Friday
Casablanca
The Wild Bunch
Badlands TIE The Yakuza Papers
Memories of Murder
Castles in the Skye
Sullivan's Travels TIE Purple প্রজাপতি
Together
Iron Giant TIE Shogun Assassin
The Third Man
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শীর্ষ Ten BooksCatcher in the Rye দ্বারা J. D. Salinger
The Golden Compass দ্বারা Philip Pullman
The Sun Also Rises দ্বারা Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit দ্বারা J. R. R. Tolkien
Great Expectations TIE David Copperfield দ্বারা Charles “the Man” Dickens
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell দ্বারা Susanna Clarke
Transit of Venus দ্বারা Shirley Hazzard
The Biographical Dictionary of Film দ্বারা David Thompson
Emma দ্বারা Jane Austen
Blood Meridian দ্বারা Cormac McCarthy
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