Gail Giles - The TeenBookCon Interview

We are continuing our TeenBookCon author interview series with the wonderful Gail Giles. Thanks, Gail, for taking a bit of time out of your busy schedule to let our teens get to know you before they meet you April 9^th! Let’s get right to the questions…

TeenBookCon: Do you listen to specific music or use any other technique to get into the minds of your characters?

Gail Giles: No, sorry.  I just sit down and write.  I don't write to music at all.

TBC: What is it about writing for teens that appeals to you?

GG: So much happens in such a short amount of time in a teen's life and I taught that age and was there to watch the drama of it all.  Fascinating stuff.  Adults keep stuff so bottled up, teens don't do that at all.

TBC: What are your top three "Books to have if stranded on a desert island"?

GG: Lord of the Flies, The Old Man and the Sea and something else.

TBC: Do you have any upcoming book projects you can tell us about?

GG: I am working on a ghost story, not the fall in the love with the he's so hot kind of ghost, but a scary, ugly ghost, and something kind of out of my usual ball park.  I think that's all I'll tell you about them.  Mysterious and all that.

TBC:  Sounds awesome. Can’t wait to hear more about that project and we really can’t wait to meet you at TeenBookCon 2011! See you then!

Gail Giles is the author of Dark Song, What Happened to Cass McBride?, Right Behind You, Playing in Traffic, Dead Girls Don't Write Letters, Shattering Glass, and Breath of a Dragon. Check out her blog.

Gail will be speaking on the A Walk on the Dark Side panel with Ellen Hopkins, Lauren Myracle, and Elizabeth Scott.

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