![]() ![]() We’re very lucky right now, in that respect. Miro: There are so many, really, and I think we’re living in a time of increasing diversity of voices and perspectives. ![]() Happy: That’s very inspiring, we are definitely putting Ursula K Le Guin on our TBR list! Which book did you last read that opened your eyes and mind to a new perspective? I realized I wanted to do that, too I wanted to write novels. It felt utterly strange, different from everything else I was reading, a story of simplicity and power in which the quest is as much internal as external. Balchin (to whom Ordinary Monsters is dedicated), who saw a lonely boy in need of some kindness. It was given to me by my sixth-grade teacher, Mr. It was Ursula K Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea. But I can tell you the very book that made me want to be a writer. #Miro apology seriesMiro: I devoured fantasy novels as a child in the eighties, all of the big blockbuster series of the time – Robert Jordan, Tad Williams, Anne McCaffrey, Terry Brooks, Dragonlance, etc. ![]() Happy: What did you read or watch growing up that fuelled your passion for storytelling? One day a baby is left with her, and she finds herself having to learn to love again. It’s about a young sorceress who lives alone in a forest, who has the ability to call rare and mythical creatures to live with her, from all over the world. It’s a beautiful novel, far ahead of its time, written with a gorgeous simplicity and clarity of vision. I just finished re-reading Patricia McKillip’s The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, after hearing about her passing. Miro: I’m always reading several books at once, some for pleasure, some for work. Happy: Which book are you currently reading? I’d sleep late, wake with no worries, spend the day book-shopping with my family. The best part: sometimes all of that can be done in pyjamas. Then pick up from school, run kids to activities, dinner, bedtime, etc. Average day: wake the kids, make lunches, drop them off at school. My wife (also a writer) and I have two school-age kids, so our days are structured around all the usual domestic business of young families. ![]()
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