Think the dystopian young - grownup novel hysteria has died down ? approximate again . A post - apocalyptic dystopian trilogy just hit over half a million clam from a major publisher , plus a motion picture deal . We talked to author Julianna Baggott about her gross trilogy .
allot to last night’sPublishers Marketplace , Julianna Baggott scored a “ major deal ” ( which means more than half a million buck ) for her gross trilogy , “ a YA / adult crossing over dystopian novel about a lodge of haves , who head for the hills an Revelation in a futurist domed stadium - cover metropolis , and have - nots , who survived the nearly destroyed outside macrocosm . ” And according to Baggott , the film right sold to Fox 2000 last week — which probably helped stoke the fervency of the book vendue , which Grand Central Publishing won . ( And yes , the “ crossing over ” affair means they ’re hop to sell it to adults as well as YA reader . )
We inquire Baggott what she thought made her dystopian trilogy so appealing to publishing house , and here ’s what she recount us :
All novels come from the singular thinker of the author – the accumulation of a life and the dark finery of the subconscious mind . But sometimes a novel hail along that makes this program line seem truer – Atwood ’s Handmaid ’s Tale , Cronin ’s The Passage , Collins ’ Hunger Games . PURE feels like the convergence of my most radical impulse .
When an editor in chief at major graphical novel publishing house asked me a few year ago if I had a graphic novel in me , I ’d just started writing a serial of literary absurdist forgetful stories . One case had emerged who seemed like she might work , but I wanted to hold up onto her . She felt like the kind of character I could build up a world around – a populace I want to build with language .
PURE is now about this girlfriend who lives , post - apocalyptically , in the shadow of the Dome . Some of the heart of this story comes from my own granddaddy , a double amputee from WWII . I was raise amid his handgun , prosthetics , the violent reminders of warfare . The main case dream of the Before and life inside the Dome , and , while write , she felt archetypal . I finger much the way she did at sixteen . I felt eye . I wanted to run and to stick around hidden and never leave rest home . I was certain there was some other space – like the Dome – where thing were better . I think I wanted into that life , and , develop up think agnise it does n’t really exist . More than anything , I hanker to live who the Scheol I was .
And now my oldest , a daughter , is fifteen . It ’s the same for her as it was for me . These thing do n’t alter . This is why some of our dystopic fabrication resonates so deeply with reviewer of all ages . The world is dystopic . On this psychological level , PURE is realism . And this novel seems profoundly my own .
The novel come after two chief lineament — this distaff character outside of the Dome , among the poor devil , and a manly character inside the Dome — and we play out how these two lives become enlace .
Domed city art byChris Palesty .
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