Holly Bourne “People think that world-building is something you only need to do in fantasy novels. But [with the character of Tori] I had to think: what’s the name of her book? What’s her brand? How does she write to her readers? How do they respond? I had to work on this imaginary career trajectory that she has.” [in an interview with ‘The Bookseller’ magazine, March 9, 2018] I reacted to this remark by young adult author Holly Bourne, who is now writing adult novels too, with familiarity and and a degree of puzzlement. Familiarity because I understand what she means, how she places her character into a world and sees what happens, how she makes decisions about the framework of that world in order for the story to progress. Puzzlement about the reference to world-building as being limited to fantasy novels; really? Isn’t that what all novelists do, whatever the genre? Imagine a world, create characters, let the two combine and see what happens. Isn’t that part of writing? Or am I missing something? How Do You Like Me Now? is Bourne’s first adult novel. She is a successful YA writer, her YA novels include It Only Happens in the Movies and the Spinster Club series which starts with Am I Normal Yet? Read more about Holly Bourne at her blog. BUY See how these other authors write:- Lee Child Gail Honeyman JoJo Moyes And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet: Why @holly_bourneYA created a world for her latest novel #writing https://wp.me/p5gEM4-3jL via @SandraDanby SaveSave SaveSave
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