Claire Nicholls

Huge success, very young.

It caused a lot of stress and anxiety for her.

And I think that's something that people don't think about when they hear these glittering stories of young success about the toll that it can take on a young writer.

Yeah.

The other problem that Samantha had is looking back at her early works that she doesn't like them so much now and she's actually gone off on this huge project of rewriting those early books.

Yes.

How do you feel when you look back at the Divergent books?

Yeah, I'm so glad that you've been able to, you know, form a new relationship with these works that are so important to so many readers as well.

Before I let you go, I just wanted to come back to Seek the Trader's Son for a moment just to talk about a couple of inventions of yours, tech inventions of yours.

Oh, yeah.

One thing I really loved in the Cedra world is if someone wants to send you a message, you might get a little tingling in your fingers sometimes

Can you explain how that works?

Yeah.

And you call it a quill, which, again, is very romantic.

But you don't know what you're writing because the thing you're writing down is the message from someone else.

It's kind of creepy.

Yes, it's creepy.

And of course, if you and I were in this world, we wouldn't have to be talking over a video chat like we are right now because I could enter a veil to talk to you, Veronica Roth.

Tell me about that.

I love I love that.