![]() How was the developing process of the story in this book? What came first: the concept of "unwind" or the idea of young people fighting the system? In Unwind you show us a terrifying future where young people can be retroactively aborted any time before t heir eighteenth birthday. ![]() My goal was to take that metaphor of the “world in-between” and create a entirely new, and fresh reality that we haven’t seen before, with it’s own rules, it’s own wonders, and it’s own terrors. A place where they can’t rely on adults to tell them what to do. It’s a place they have to navigate for themselves. Teenager’s lives are all about being “in-between.” Not quite children, and not quite adults. A place that’s in between life and death. ![]() It’s not that their souls go there – it’s that sometimes they get stuck there on the way to where they’re supposed to be going. How did the idea of that place come to you? In the Skinjacker Trilogy you write about a world where children's souls go when they die: Everlost. The only censorship issues I ever have for my books are from people who haven’t actually read them. Not just kids, but teachers and parents, too. ![]() I like to ask hard questions, and really challenge readers to think. I do address difficult subjects, but I do it responsibly. Why that choice of topics? Has censorship never worried you? As a writer, you adress very controversial issues like children's death or abortion. ![]()
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