Bar Fridman-Tell

I was living, it was during my husband's postdoc and we were living in the IS in Princeton.

So the instances woods was actually outside my door.

And every day I would go outside for a walk or for a run.

So, and I would see deer and rabbits and birds.

And I think they found their way into the landscape of honeysuckle.

I had

a very thriving bird feeder.

And the personalities of the bird in the bird feeders are 100% the personalities of the birds in the book.

Is it okay to be a secretive goblin?

Absolutely.

It always feels like when I'm still writing, it feels, I think,

It's a metaphor that's Maggie Steeve's author used that she's holding a whole bunch of balloons and like every time she looks away or looks at one balloon, another one goes away.

And that's the way it feels talking about something I'm still writing.

Like I'll say this about the plot and then like the balloon of like how does Kyla will go away or I'll forget that there's a sister.

I think the thing I love most about books is how personal they are, how they are first and foremost and experience something that happens in the space between the reader and the book.

And it's not something you can replicate and it's not something you can predict.

So anything that they'll take from the book will make me happy because it means that they made them theirs.

But if I could choose one thing for me, it would be if they'll ask questions, if they'll finish the book and ask themselves how they feel about the relationship between power and consent and agency, and if it made them question anything, or if it made them feel anything that I will be ecstatic.

Thank you so much for having me.