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Chat with Amy Garvey

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HarperTeen
Chat with Amy Garvey
July 27, 2012 10:51AM
Join us beginning July 30th - August 3rd on this forum as AMY GARVEY visits and answers your questions all week long! Post your questions here and you'll be automatically entered to win copies of her books: Cold Kiss and Glass Heart!

Don't forget to log back in during Amy's visit to read her responses!





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2012 10:51AM by HarperTeen.
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Namine
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 27, 2012 03:24PM
what made you decide on the name Wren?
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cuttykitty345
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 27, 2012 04:35PM
What was your inspiration for coming up with characters like Wren and Danny?
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riolu0129
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 28, 2012 08:55PM
1.How did you come up with the theme and plot of the story?
2.what made you decide to become an author?
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NotoriousGOT
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 11:50AM
Hi Amy! I'm in the middle of reading Cold Kiss now and love it! You're writing is beautiful, and I find myself choking up a bit at certain scenes. I had no idea there was a sequel for this! Thought it was a standalone! Did you go into writing Cold Kiss knowing that there would be another book in the series or is Glass Heart an after thought?
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Pretty In Pages
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 12:04PM
Hi Amy! What's your favorite line you wrote in Cold Kiss?
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DarkRaven
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 12:15PM
Hi Amy, welcome to Epic Reads! Here's my question:

Do you think bringing someone back from the dead is selfish or unselfish? What are your arguments for both sides?
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ShazminPorschaBorlandoe
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 01:13PM
I absolutely LOVE the cover art for both of your books! Did you have any other ideas for cover art?
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Amy Garvey
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 07:18PM
I'm not sure! I wanted something different but not really out there, for one. And a long time ago I had read a book called The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (which was later a really excellently creepy TV movie with Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen) and the little girl's name was Rynn, which I thought was really cool and exotic when I was twelve. So ... a combination of those things, I guess? When it comes to character names, I just let them come to me, and when they're right I can always tell.
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Amy Garvey
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July 30, 2012 07:24PM
I came up with the idea of bringing someone back from the dead first, and then I started to think about who would (and could) do that, and why. And that was Wren! Danny was inspired a little bit my first boyfriend, but he was also just supposed to be a little bit too good to be true -- since he was going to be dead anyway.
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Amy Garvey
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July 30, 2012 07:55PM
I had the idea of bringing someone back from the dead first, and then I had to figure out who would (and could) do that, and why. I knew I was writing YA, so first it was teenage girl and then ... it was Wren. It's hard to remember exactly how she came to life! Danny was partly inspired by my first boyfriend, who was an artist and incredibly sweet, but I also wanted to make him just a little bit too good to be true, since the reader wouldn't really know whether Wren was idealizing him in memory or not.
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Amy Garvey
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July 30, 2012 07:57PM
I think it has to be "Love doesn't break easily, I found. But people do." When I wrote that, really early on, I knew I kind of had the whole heart of the novel fixed in place.
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bamayankee
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 10:09PM
I love love loved Cold Kiss and cannot wait for Glass Heart! I have kind of a random question. When you're writing, is there anything that you just HAVE to have or do? Do you have a scene that is your favorite or that was the most fun to write?
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AliByars
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 11:38PM
I am in the middle of reading Cold kiss and I was curious are you turning the books into a trilogy or is there only going to be a sequel?
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AliByars
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 30, 2012 11:41PM
What helped you decide to become an author? If you could give one piece of advice to aspiring writers, what would you say?
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tabright1985
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 31, 2012 11:14AM
Cold Kiss is on my "have to read" list and I'm very excited to try it. It sounds like a great story. Do you have any songs that you would say influenced your writing?
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EpicLady
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 31, 2012 12:28PM
If you could bring any person back to life, who would it be?
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 12:28PM
riolu0129 Wrote:
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> 1.How did you come up with the theme and plot of
> the story?
> 2.what made you decide to become an author?


The theme was sort of a gift -- someone mentioned zombie books as the heir to the vampire and werewolf novels, and I started thinking about voodoo zombies, instead of the shuffling, brain-eating ones (much as I love them, they don't make great characters). Voodo zombies are raised from the dead purposely, and I wondered who would do that, which is how Wren was born. The plot followed pretty easily -- when you've got an undead boyfriend hanging around, you have to figure out where to go from there, and that's what Wren has to do.

I've always wanted to be a writer, since I was a kid. I was writing short stories since I was ten or eleven, and my dream was always to write professionally. I'm so grateful I've had the chance.
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 12:31PM
NotoriousGOT Wrote:
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> Hi Amy! I'm in the middle of reading Cold Kiss now
> and love it! You're writing is beautiful, and I
> find myself choking up a bit at certain scenes. I
> had no idea there was a sequel for this! Thought
> it was a standalone! Did you go into writing Cold
> Kiss knowing that there would be another book in
> the series or is Glass Heart an after thought?


I'm so glad you're enjoying it! I did purposely leave a door open at the end of Cold Kiss, because I wanted to have things to address in a sequel, but I wasn't sure there would be one at the time. Writing Glass Heart was a challenge that way -- I had to really think about what Wren had been through in Cold Kiss and what she faced after that.
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 01:06PM
DarkRaven Wrote:
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> Hi Amy, welcome to Epic Reads! Here's my
> question:
>
> Do you think bringing someone back from the dead
> is selfish or unselfish? What are your arguments
> for both sides?


I think it's selfish, at least the way I wrote it in Cold Kiss. Love is wonderful, but everything ends, and learning to let go is important. Your grief can't be bigger or more important than whatever peace someone might have found in death.

Also, the whole business of playing god is pretty tricky, and not usually a good idea.
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 01:08PM
ShazminPorschaBorlandoe Wrote:
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> I absolutely LOVE the cover art for both of your
> books! Did you have any other ideas for cover art?


The original idea for Cold Kiss was two faces -- Wren's and Danny's -- with a cold breath sort of stretched between their mouths. I love the final art, though -- it's one of the prettiest covers I've ever seen.

Authors are usually welcome to offer ideas, but cover design is best left to the art department. They're the people who know what will make the greatest impact, and HarperTeen does a fantastic job.
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gaby891
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 31, 2012 08:38PM
I have a hard time explaining what I want to say, how do you explain things when writing?
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deadtossedwaves
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July 31, 2012 08:40PM
Have you ever had to cut a character in the middle of your work in progress?

Which character is the most frustrating to write?

Would you write from a male POV?
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 09:59PM
bamayankee Wrote:
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> I love love loved Cold Kiss and cannot wait for
> Glass Heart! I have kind of a random question.
> When you're writing, is there anything that you
> just HAVE to have or do? Do you have a scene that
> is your favorite or that was the most fun to
> write?


I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I think one of the scenes that was my favorite to write is the one where Wren is dreaming about Danny and Gabriel -- the creep factor even made me shiver.

When I'm writing, I usually have tea (either hot or iced), something to munch on, and the most comfortable clothes I own. Writing is a no-bra endeavor for me. ;-)
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Amy Garvey
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 31, 2012 10:09PM
AliByars Wrote:
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> I am in the middle of reading Cold kiss and I was
> curious are you turning the books into a trilogy
> or is there only going to be a sequel?


Just the sequel! One day I'd love to maybe explore something from the family's history, like the first woman with power, but for now it's just Cold Kiss and Glass Heart.
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 10:12PM
AliByars Wrote:
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> What helped you decide to become an author? If
> you could give one piece of advice to aspiring
> writers, what would you say?


I guess I never felt that I had a choice, not in terms of writing anyway, whether I was ever published or not. I've always written, and I always will, even if I don't publish anymore -- it's just what I do. As for aspiring authors, if I had to pick only one piece of advice it would be, "Keep writing." (There are a lot more, like read everything you can, and question everything, but the most fundamental one is to keep at it. No one writes a great novel on the first try.)
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Amy Garvey
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July 31, 2012 10:48PM
tabright1985 Wrote:
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> Cold Kiss is on my "have to read" list and I'm
> very excited to try it. It sounds like a great
> story. Do you have any songs that you would say
> influenced your writing?

Music is always a huge inspiration when I'm writing, and I always listen to different things from project to project. For Cold Kiss, my playlist was pretty varied, with "Honey" by The Hush Sound as the initial inspiration. The whole list is right here on the site, too: [www.epicreads.com]
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Amy Garvey
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
July 31, 2012 10:56PM
ladyAPF Wrote:
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> If you could bring any person back to life, who
> would it be?


Such a hard question! If there was a guarantee that it would work, and the person would really be alive again (not a zombie), I would bring back the husband of a good friend, who died much too young, when their son was still very small.
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megrue
Re: Chat with Amy Garvey
August 01, 2012 09:54AM
Hi, Amy! Did you cry at all while you wrote this book? I can't imagine not crying--it's such a heartfelt and heartbreaking story!
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juneluu
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August 01, 2012 12:12PM
How did you become an author?
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