Beth Revis is the author of Across the Universe and its sequel A Million Suns (just released this January!).I haven't read either of these 책 yet (mostly because they are never on the shelves in my library--Good for Beth, bad for Small!), but they're on my TBR and I've spent 더 많이 time than I should probably admit to oogling their gorgeous covers. I've also managed to sneak a peek at the first chapter and WOW, talk about dramatic!

Beth was kind enough to stop 의해 today and answer some of my very important 질문 (you know, about 키싱 and stuff).





Q: Which one of your characters would you...

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Recommended. For readers of young adult fiction, whether you're a teenager yourself 또는 just like the genre, there have never been 더 많이 choices. Dystopian YA fiction is a particularly trendy category these days. Science fiction writers have always imagined dystopias, 또는 futuristic societies ruled 의해 oppressive governments, where the freedoms we enjoy today have vanished. Recent series, such as Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfield's Uglies, have brought the concept to a younger audience.


Across the Universe 의해 Beth Revis also presents a dystopia, but with a twist....

Synopsis: A 사랑 out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as 겨울왕국 cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her 겨울왕국 slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the 메리다와 마법의 숲 new world of a spaceship that lives 의해 its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t...

On the “Release Eve” of her debut novel, Across the Universe, we’d like to introduce 당신 to Beth Revis.
Beth has a great website, so it was hard to find 질문 that she hadn’t already answered. After putting on my thinking cap, I managed to come up with some things to ask that hadn’t already been answered. Beth is a former English teacher who left that profession in June of 2010 in order to pursue 글쓰기 full time. Here’s what Beth had to say:
Eve’s 팬 Garden: How did 당신 come up with the idea for Across the Universe?

Beth Revis: It all came from an idea for the twist at the...