What if a virus like that got out in the world? I thought, it’s only a matter of time before they do that with animals. And they’re using viruses to transfer DNA in plants. It sounded like a horror movie in the making.
When swine flu came out, and I heard that there was pig DNA on the virus, that grossed me out.
Whenever I read some weird science fact that makes me feel slightly nauseated or seems wrong, I file it away. Falls temporarily ignored the unpacked boxes in her new home to speak with PW about obsessive research, exchanging feedback with other novelists, and teaching girls to embrace their fierce side. Fortunately, unlike Lane, the 16-year-old main character in the book, she did not need to deal with the spread of a virus that causes humans to mutate into animals. – spoke on a Dystopian and Beyond panel at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville survived the first day of teaching her fall-semester Writing for the Screen and Stage class at Northwestern University and hit her local library to promote her newly released YA novel, Inhuman, first in the Fetch trilogy. She moved into a new house – a 125-year-old scaled-down version of her 119-year-old former residence, 10 blocks away in Evanston, Ill.
In late September, Kat Falls, author of the middle-grade novels Dark Life (2010) and 2011’s Rip Tide (both from Scholastic Press), lived through a schedule that may sound a bit, well, inhuman.
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