![]() ![]() I wanted to grasp that same feeling of nonsense and silliness that we get from Alice while slipping in extra layers of darkness as well. ![]() Lewis Carroll set very few rules for this world, so I entered it with an "anything goes" attitude. MM: There are so many things I loved about writing Heartless, but probably my favorite was simply having the opportunity to craft my own version of Wonderland. Patricia: What did you like about writing Heartless? Was writing this novel as hard as writing Cinder? Is there anything that you particularly enjoy about Heartless? My hope is that readers will relate to Catherine and understand what led her to become this character we recognize from the classic. However, because of the forces at work against her and the choices that Cath makes, she is gradually led down this path of love and heartbreak and magic and madness, until she has no choice but to emerge as this bloodthirsty queen. But I knew she wouldn't begin the story as a villain, so I wanted to craft a story about a fairly normal girl with a big dream, something that I hope readers will connect with right away. MM: I really want readers to come away from reading Heartless feeling like it's understandable-even inevitable-that this character has become the Queen of Hearts we know from Lewis Carroll's work, furiously stampeding around and calling for someone's head after the slightest infraction. Kelly: How do you plan to create a sympathetic protagonist in Cath when the Queen of Hearts is generally the villain of the story? We learn so little about her character in Alice in Wonderland, and I felt there was so much potential to craft a backstory that would bring her to life in a brand-new way. I loved the idea of taking on a similar challenge to create a new perception of the infamous Queen of Hearts. ![]() Gregory Maguire's Wicked is, of course, a classic example of this, and he really gave the Wicked Witch of the West an entirely new identity, which is no small feat! Marissa Meyer: I absolutely love villain origin stories, especially when they take everything you think you know about a villain and completely turn it around, making it so the reader can understand, maybe even sympathize, with this character that once they may have despised. Jacky: What inspired you to write Heartless? It was hard to whittle them down! Read on to discover all about Heartless, Meyer's literary heroes, why she writes in 53-minute bursts, and what the prolific author plans to tackle next. No surprise, then, that when Goodreads emailed readers, asking them to submit questions for this Q&A, we received one of our biggest responses ever, with more than 1,000 replies. Now comes Heartless, Meyer's hotly anticipated new novel in which she turns from sci-fi-like fairy tales to Alice in Wonderland, offering a riveting prequel to the Lewis Carroll classic centered on the Queen of Hearts, aka Cath, "a fairly normal girl with a big dream" whose choices snowball into villainy. ![]() ( Cinder saw the downtrodden Cinderella as a cyborg mechanic who loses not a slipper on the palace steps but a foot.) Fans have been devouring The Lunar Chronicles since the 2012 release of Cinder, part one of her ingenious tetralogy (and accompanying titles) in which popular fairy tales undergo a futuristic dystopian reimagining. It's hard to overestimate the love that exists for Marissa Meyer's books. ![]()
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