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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Author Interview: Megan Crewe

Megan was awesome enough to answer a few questions for me after I read her amazing book Give Up the Ghost. Read my review if you haven't already.


Would you mind sharing a little bit about yourself and how you became a writer?
I've always loved stories. My parents are both avid readers and read to me every night, and I couldn't wait to be able to read books to myself, too. I started making up my own stories when I was very young as well. Some of them I wrote down, and some of them I acted out with my toys (my plastic animal figures used to have epic battles between the carnivores and the herbivores). For a while it was just something I did for fun. But as I got older and started seeing how much friends and teachers enjoyed my stories, I began to think maybe I could do this thing I loved as a career, too. I wrote my first novel (and a number of others) and started sending out short stories to magazines when I was in my teens. I didn't have a lot of success then, but I kept at it, and, well, here I am today!

What inspired you to write Give up the Ghost?

I had this idea of a girl hanging out with her ghostly sister, and feeling totally at ease with it, and I wanted to explore that. I hadn't seen a character who liked being able to see ghosts before. Why would she prefer the company of the dead over that of the living? What might come of her friendship with ghosts? How might she re-connect with living people? With so many interesting questions to figure out the answers to, I just had to write a book about her!

What made you decide to write a young adult novel or, rather, have a young adult as your protagonist?

All of my novels have had teen protagonists. When I was in my teens, I felt that I didn't know enough about being an adult to write one's story convincingly. But as I got into my twenties, I found I still liked writing about teenaged characters. So much goes on in the teen years--you're figuring out who you are and who you want to be, defining yourself apart from your parents, re-evaluating ideas and people you took for granted as a kid--and I love writing about characters going through all of that. It's so intense.


Have you ever encountered anything ghostly yourself?

There was one time I thought maybe my cat had seen a ghost. He was in my bedroom, and all of a sudden he freaked out and scratched me and ran out of the room. And then he spent the next hour at a distance, staring at my bed. He refused to go under the bed ever again after that, even though that had previously been one of his favorite places to hide. So there was definitely something going on that was beyond my abilities of perception!


What do you need with you when you're sitting down to write?

My laptop (which has no internet connection--on my desktop computer I'm easily distracted) and the index card with the outline of the scene I'm currently writing. That's about it!


What are you working on currently writing-wise?

I've got a few different projects at different stages--all of them YA, and all of them some sort of
speculative fiction (paranormal, fantasy).

Thank you again Megan for taking some time to answer my questions!

35 comments:

  1. Hi, Megan!

    Great interview and I'm definitely looking forward to reading Give Up the Ghost! Plus I love the cover. :)

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  2. Great interview! Speculative fiction...I've never heard of that term for paranormal.

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  3. I'm looking forward to more books by Crewe. :)

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  4. Poor kitty! To see a ghost and everything.

    Valorie
    morbidromantic@gmail.com

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  5. I'm glad she's going to be writing more! It's always nice to have another addition to the genre! Thanks for the interview!

    Natalie @ Mindful Musings

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  6. I'm excited to see what Megan's next book will be.

    Plus totally creepy supernatural experience. Sometimes I wonder if my cat is sensing something as well, or if is just crazy. :)

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  7. Megan Crewe is lovely! I was in a chatzy with her once, she's very nice and has lovely hair :-)

    Great interview!

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  8. She sounds like a really down to Earth person. And wow she started writing early.

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  9. That's amazing, how you get to talk to authors.

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  10. after reading this i am really interested in reading her work. thanks for pointing her out to us. bekki1820cb@gmail.com

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  11. It's amazing how someone can start from such a small idea, that of wanting someone who enoys being able to talk to ghosts, and turn it into an amazing book.
    This was a great interview! The author seems so cool!

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  12. Great interview! It's great to know that she is writing more!

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  13. great interview. Its nice to learn more about the authors we read.

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  14. Nice interview, I like reading about the paranormal but would not want to encounter anything like that.

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  15. Great interview! I can't wait to read this book.

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  16. Sounds like a very unique and interesting read.

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  17. Great interview. I had a cat that kind of did the same sort of thing and avoided the sofa for a month or so.
    susan.byerly@comcast.net

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  18. Cool interview. Great questions. I had a similar cat experience but he was looking into the kitchen area when he freaked out.

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  19. great questions.. i bet it feels amazing to interview an author. seems like and interesting read.

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  20. Good interview - Loved the bit about the cat - makes you wonder what they can see with those eyes!

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  21. What a nice interview and interesting questions. I'm glad she's continuing to work on some more YA, I can't wait to check out Give up the Ghost.

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  22. Great interview, ghost stories are always so fun. And aww her poor cat. =)

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  23. Great interview! Sounds like her cat got spooked.

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  24. Awesome interview!! I'm very excited to know that Megan is writing more YA supernatural-like books!!!! I've heard such great things about Give Up the Ghost and I'm sure I'll love it and any other works Megan writes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  25. Nice interview =)
    I like the story about the cat seeing ghosts =P

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  26. Great interview! So glad she is writing more.

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  27. This interview has me beaming from ear to ear. I have been aching for a good read for the winter and now I have an author I know I can count on!

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  28. Great interview!! I've been dying to read this book.

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  29. A ghost-spotting cat, hmm? Had to have felt a little weird to continue *sleeping* in that bed if she thought there was a ghost under it. And what kind of ghost lives under the bed?
    Good stuff. ;P

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  30. Great Interview. Poor Kitty, I wonder what he saw.

    ~Pixie

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  31. Great Review definitely like her story about her cat seeing ghosts.

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