You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.
From Ransom Riggs
It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.
I fell in love with London and one particular era in London.
I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.
I write the books to amuse myself.
I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.
I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photographs, so I tend to envision things spatially. As I'm working, I need to have a map of the space. I need to know what's happening in all corners simultaneously.
The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.
I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!
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