Krissy Kneen

And so in the lead up to this book, I really wanted to honor her somehow.

And the best way to do that was to go back to the family trade, making paper mache figures.

It did really take me back to my childhood.

It might eventually involve a few interviews but not that many and certainly not in 24 hours.

I'm actually working on a non-fiction book about fatness and it's about our cultural and social relationship to fatness because I live my life as a fat woman and it seems to be the last bastion of what people think that they can say nasty things to people if they're fat.

We're no longer allowed to, you know, belittle people because of the colour of their skin or their sexual identity, but we are still seemingly allowed to belittle people if they are fat.

So that's actually something that I've been wanting to write for a while, but

You know, it's a really difficult topic so I've put it off and put it off and I'm finally wading in and rolling my sleeves up and trying to look at how I feel about living in a fat body and how everybody else feels about me living in a fat body and about the misconceptions that we have.

Well, they're incredibly intelligent.

I did a deep dive into octopuses many years ago when I was writing a book and wanted to use an octopus in the book.

And so I went down this rabbit hole of researching octopuses.

And really, they are amazing.

They have such an incredible intelligence.

They can solve puzzles.

They get bored really easily, which is why you have to put toys in their tank.

Otherwise, they start taking their tank apart and they'll escape.

They're incredible escape artists.

Basically, it's like they can get through anything as long as it's big enough to let their little beak through.

So they have a little kind of hard beak, but everything else about their body is changeable and movable.

They can live on land and in the water.