Shelfie Seven: SLAY author, Kim Curran, it’s time to EXPRESS YOURSHELF!
To celebrate the publication of the kick-ass, demon-killing Slay last week, we caught up with Kim Curran to ask her the quintessential Shelfie Seven questions...
#1 Kim, you can travel back in time and give thirteen-year-old you a book you've read recently; what do you choose? It would probably be Circe by Madeline Miller, which I have just finished reading. I was obsessed with mythology as a teen and am sure that past me would adore the book as much as present me did.
#2 Who was your first literary crush? Huckleberry Finn – to the point I spent a summer dressing like him. I just wanted to get on a boat and run away!
#3 Where is your favourite place to write? Probably on trains – the sense of forward motion and the fact I'm generally disconnected from the internet helps me focus.
#4 You're going away on a writer's retreat and the cottage sleeps four – who are the other three guests? You don't have to know them, or live in the same period of history. They'd be the three women I've already been on writers' retreats with: Amy McCulloch (AKA Amy Alward, author of The Potion Diaries), Laura Lam (author of the Micah Grey series) and Rebecca Levene (author of the Hollow Gods series). Not only are they all amazing writers, we're also disciplined enough to stop talking long enough to actually get some work done! I fear if I were to bring Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde or Jane Austen (who might be my dead author choices) then I'd spend so much time listening to their stories I wouldn't do any writing!
#5 Which song provides the perfect soundtrack for Slay? Choosing just one song is so hard. But it has to be Drag Me Down by 1D, which features on my Slay playlist!
#6 If you were to write fan-fiction about any book, series – literary or otherwise – what would it be? My favourite series of the moment is Lockwood & Co by Jonathan Stroud. Five books just wasn't enough – I need to know what happens to Anthony and Lucy! I want more – so I might just write it.
#7 And finally, who's playing your characters in the film version? Such a tough question, I imagine it would be some as yet undiscovered talent. But, from my character inspiration board you have a young Sophie Wu for Milly, I have no idea about his acting ability, but a young and dark-haired Lucky Blue for JD, and Skin from Skunk Anansie as Gail Storm.
Slay by Kim Curran is OUT NOW, featuring a demon-killing boyband, one hell of an adventure, and lots and lots of fun...