I think Anne is one of the most wonderful characters ever created, and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s first book about her is so timeless, joyful, and moving. It did all grow from Anne of Green Gables, which was and still is one of my absolutely favorite books. It was a mix of my own personal favorites and books I felt would work best for Tilly and Oskar’s stories. For me, the most valuable thing I’ve learned from recommending books to people as a librarian and journalist is trying to always keep the reader at the center of it all and trying not to worry too much about all the elements that are outside of my control.ĭid you draw from your own favorite childhood books when deciding which characters Tilly and Oskar will encounter in your trilogy-Anne of Green Gables and Lewis Carroll’s Alice, for starters? How did your previous professional endeavors inform your fiction writing once you embarked on that path?Īll of my jobs have had something to do with books and reading, and I’ve been lucky to see the industry from a variety of different perspectives. I also wanted to explore the way that the books we read really help us, especially younger readers, decide who we are as people and what we stand for.
I had a lot of fun turning the way that we speak about reading and books into a real world with plot holes, books as portals, and the idea of getting lost in a good book. I truly believe that reading is the closest thing we have to magic-it can be transformative. I knew I wanted to write something that celebrated the power of books, bookshops, and libraries, and something that made literal the magic I’ve always felt when I’ve read. My love of books and the worlds they’ve transported me to was absolutely the foundation of Pages & Co. that I seriously started with my own fiction. So, it was only when I had the idea for Pages & Co. It wasn’t until relatively recently that I tried writing fiction, since I had been writing professionally as a journalist for a few years and found that incredibly creatively satisfying. What inspired you to try your hand at fiction at this point in your life? But from university onwards I didn’t really write fiction at all. in terms of imagining myself adventuring alongside my favorite characters. I think that was the early seeds of Pages & Co. I used to insert my sister and me into my favorite stories. I wrote a lot as a child for the pure enjoyment of it, writing what we’d now probably call fan fiction. I was fortunate to have access to wonderful school and public libraries and could read as much as I liked for free.
When did it occur to you, as an avid reader, that you wanted to write your own stories?īooks have always been a huge part of my life, and I was an obsessive reader as a child.
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