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The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.
Ransom Riggs
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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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It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.
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'Library of Souls' is longer than 'Hollow City' by a considerable margin, but this time I was on the right track from the beginning, so I never had to start over. It took about 15 months, all told.
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John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.
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Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
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I was in the same class of 100 kids from grade 6 through 12, many of whom I still call friends.
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My happy place is 40 feet out in the Gulf of Mexico, sitting on a sandbar in 80-degree water, watching clouds crawl by. Absolute heaven.
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Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and dumped in disorganized bins, selling 10 for a dollar. I wondered how people could give up pictures of their great-grandparents for complete strangers to paw through - or why complete strangers would want them.
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When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or so will have some writing on it.
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Pine View was a great school for me - it made it safe to be a nerd. It was okay to really care about doing your homework and doing well in school.
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As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do. Everyone breaks into the business in a different way.
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