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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Interview with Eve author, Anna Carey

Today we're thrilled to have debut author, Anna Carey on the blog today! She's stopped by to answer a few of our questions about Eve. If you have a moment, I highly recommend watching/listening to the video link she's shared with us of J.K. Rowling's Harvard commencement speech.


Thank you so much for being with us today Anna & congratulations on your recent release of Eve! What inspired you to write Eve's story?

Thank you! It's exciting to finally see the book in stores. When I started writing I'd been thinking about the same few questions: What would happen if you found out everything you've learned is a lie? What if the world, as it actually was, was so much more beautiful and terrifying than you ever could have imagined? Would you have the courage to explore it?

What is something you admire the most about Eve?

The adventure follows Eve through three states and over hundreds of miles. She's fighting against the elements, wild animals and gangs, all while being chased by the King's army. But in my mind, the book has always been about how she changes and grows in the process. When she escapes School she has few supplies and absolutely no survival skills. She's not only been taught that men are dangerous and violent, she's been taught that going beyond the School wall means certain death. She's terrified, but she overcomes that terror. To me, that's the bravest thing about her.

Your world building is fascinating. When you first started writing Eve's story did you always have her world pictured in your mind or was that something that grew as the story developed?

I wasn't as interested in creating a whole new world as I was in reimagining our existing world in the wake of an unfathomable disaster. What if the world was, in some ways, better without us in it? What if the air and oceans were cleaner and ugly strip malls were covered over with ivy and moss? When Eve goes beyond the School walls, the wild she steps into looks like a lush, overgrown paradise. That was always very vivid to me. The City of Sand and the King's world is developed further in the second book.

What's a book you've recently read that you'd recommend to our followers?

I'm reading two books right now and loving both. Passion by Lauren Kate and Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley. Passion is the best in the series so far--I love seeing Luce and Daniel's story play out through different lives and centuries. Where Things Come Back is gorgeously written--the book literally gives me chills (in a good way).

If you could have lunch with any author past or present, who would you want to have lunch with and why?

J.K. Rowling. In addition to being a phenomenally talented author,every time I've seen her interviewed I've been fascinated. I loved her Harvard commencement address (If you haven't seen it, check it out here) and overall outlook. She just seems like such a strong, smart, talented woman.

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Thank you Anna for joining us today! J.K. Rowling's speech is incredibly motivational. Thank you so much for sharing that will us.

You can follow Anna on her Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and follow The Eve Trilogy on Facebook.

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Where do you go when nowhere is safe?

Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth’s population, the world is a perilous place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond the heavily guarded perimeter of her school, where she and two hundred other orphaned girls have been promised a future as the teachers and artists of the New America. But the night before graduation, Eve learns the shocking truth about her school’s real purpose—and the horrifying fate that awaits her.

Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Arden, her former rival from school, and Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust . . . and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life.

In this epic new series, Anna Carey imagines a future that is both beautiful and terrifying. Readers will revel in Eve’s timeless story of forbidden love and extraordinary adventure. -quoted from Goodreads

You can read my 4 star review & enter to win an ARC of Eve here.

1 comment:

  1. She is a liability to those that help her, at first, and makes some pretty huge mistakes, but eventually learns to draw on her inner strength to make some pretty tough choices. I love seeing protagonists that transform that way because it makes the story so much more real and addictive. Eve was a wonderful start to what is sure to be a must read series

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