Ever since I fell in love with Diana Peterfreund 's Secret Society Girl series last year, I've been hoping I'd get the chance to interview her here. Tomorrow marks the release of her new novel, Rampant , and let me tell you that you have not read a book like this before. You can read my review here , but all you really need to know is that it's a story about killer unicorns and the young women who hunt them. You want to read it now, don't you? Oh, yeah, and it's YA and the first in a series! To celebrate the release, Diana graciously answered a few of my most burning questions. As she is always a delight, I know you'll enjoy them as much as I did. First things first: When did the idea for Rampant first hit you and what (if anything) did you know right off the bat? In early 2005, just after selling Secret Society Girl , I had this dream of being chased by a very dangerous unicorn. I woke up and went to go look it up to see if I could figure out the meanin...
HAHAHA! Is it sort of like ImprovEverywhere?
ReplyDeleteThat was hilarious! How did they pull that off?
ReplyDeleteStupendous!
ReplyDeleteI love love love love it!
ReplyDelete(and you win, damit, I smiled--and teared up a little)
I seem to be a tad hormonal, though :wink:
I teared up too! It was just so beautiful. Laughing and crying at the same time. PMS is so fun.
ReplyDeleteOh thank God I'm not the only one who teared up. That was absolutely wonderful!
ReplyDeleteAmy -- running with the whole PMS excuse; that works.
Fabulous! Life seems brighter after watching this!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you all enjoyed it. And no worries about tearing up. I got all glassy-eyed myself. You nailed it, Kip, things seemed brighter after watching it. I loved how it seemed to make all the train station goers happy almost in spite of themselves.
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