This giveaway is over.
Swinging by to WORD today is Cornelia Funke. (!!!!!!!!!) Yes, you read that right - New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke, author of the fantabulous Inkheart trilogy and The Whipping Boy and Dragon Rider is here to talk about her newest novel Reckless!
For years, Jacob Reckless has been secretly disappearing to another world, a world behind a mirror, a world for which his father abandoned his family. The mirror world is Jacob's escape from reality. It's a place for treasure hunts and magnificent quests. A world where witches haunt the forests and giants and dwarfs roam. A world locked in a deadly war.
Jacob's secret seems safe, until one day his younger brother Will follows him, with disastrous consequence. Faced with a curse that is quickly turning Will to stone, the Reckless brothers are thrust into a race against time to find a cure before Will is lost forever.
N: Welcome to WORD, Cornelia! What was your favorite part to write in Reckless - the Goyl army? The dangerous fairies?
CF: Oh I loved it all!!! I never was as enchanted by a world as by this one. Fenoglio has the Inkworld, I am lost behind the Mirror. I wear the red fur of a fox and I am thoughtless, irresponsible and completely fearless in Jacob's skin. I love the King of the Goyl as the Dark Fairy and I am him in his fiery stone skin taking revenge on the humans. I see our own world behind the Mirror still young but learning, building machines and forgetting about magic and nature, believing in nothing but the human mind and progress. Oh yes, I love everything about it.
N: Your bestselling Inkheart series takes place in a fantasy world, as does Reckless (though the two worlds are, of course, different). How do you come up with the places and laws and characters and beings in your fantasy stories?
CF: By feeding the worlds with research about our world, about its history and myths and filling a treasure chest with all the sparkling things I find to then start telling the story
N: I can't stop staring at the Reckless cover - the eyes are haunting! What do you think of it?
CF: I did the first sketch and design for it and the stone face is based on a photo that I had on the wall while writing. I like it very much though I'd still prefer the stone face to look older. Will is after all not a boy anymore. I just saw the cover design of my German publishers for Part 2 and I think it will look very beautiful.
N: I'm excited to see it! What books are you looking forward to reading that are on your shelf right now?
CF: The Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman and a collection of short stories from different writes based on Sherlock Holmes that'll be published in October.
Can't go wrong with Neil Gaiman or Sherlock Holmes, can you?!
I also have one copy of Reckless up for grabs, as well as a shiny poster! This giveaway is limited to the U.S. only - sorry lovies! It'll fun from now to October 5.
Quick Recap:
[1] copy of Reckless up for grabs
[1] winner in the U.S. only
ends October 5
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