Such an honor for me to be interviewed by Gayle Forman, one of my favorite authors! Here is our interview, up on Omnivoracious, the Amazon Book Review…
Gayle Forman: Your latest book, The Walls Around Us, is a provocative, suspenseful tale about ghosts, ballet dancers, and teenager killers, but also the blurry line between living and dead, between guilt and innocence.
This is the third amazing novel of yours I’ve read that explores such murky depths. What draws you to these kinds of stories? What’s the spark?
Nova Ren Suma: I keep finding myself drawn to explore what disturbs and unnerves me…My early teenage years weren’t easy—when I was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen—I can remember it as if it were yesterday. I think that’s where all of this is coming from. I’m writing these stories for the girl I was.
That’s just the start—Gayle had some wonderful questions for me, and the rest of the interview can be found here.
For more about the book…
- On the Book Smugglers, I wrote about teenage ghosts and The Walls Around Us, starting with the Ouija board I was obsessed with when I was thirteen years old…
- On Dear Teen Me, I wrote a letter to my teen self, choosing my most painful year, the year my diary was exposed, when I was fifteen…
- Publishers Weekly interviewed me and I talked some more about how YA was a new start for me…
- Kirkus interviewed me and called me creepy (a sure compliment!)…
- YA Interrobang interviewed me about when I almost gave up and more…
- Metro New York shared five surprises (not spoilers!) about The Walls Around Us…
- B&N Teen Blog asked me about the epigraphs and the shout-outs to authors and books I love…
- And MTV News featured beautiful cinemagraphs and excerpts from The Walls Around Us, giving you a little tease of the book…