NZ: I’ve had two novels optioned by prominent indie studios, I think for $5,000 and $10,000, but I never had one of those meetings where they fly you to Hollywood, or even a video conference with a producer. They’re getting on an emotional rollercoaster where they don’t know whether it returns to the station or simply cranks them up the first big hill before derailing.īB: Are any movies of your novels in the offing? Who would you cast? Parents are brave to take the risk they do. Maybe I could put up with it if that person were unfailingly healthy and happy and guaranteed to outlive me. I don’t have children, but I would dread loving anyone again the way I loved my mother. NZ: Family has an overwhelming grip over most people’s emotional lives, including mine. Plenty of stand-up comedians these days pose as shy, retiring persons, but don’t believe them.īB: Bran ends up being cared for by a dubious step-family. I write funny novels alone in my room, and booksellers convey them to my audience years later in my absence. NZ: No way! The contrast in working conditions is too dramatic. It’s not straight men who turned her into a pinup girl.īB: Avalon made me laugh out loud. Plus, as Bran says herself, Audrey is a two-edged sword. So it made sense to me that a good-looking girl who isn’t sheltered would shelter herself with tent-like clothes. I know a gorgeous, well-connected heiress in Berlin who got a huge, scary dog to protect her from stalkers. NZ: The beautiful women I know all have horror stories, from being drugged and groped by professors at college to being raped by a friend of the family at age 12. It’s my most autobiographical book, so it basically wrote itself.īB: The heroine, Brandy, is an Audrey Hepburn-lookalike camouflaged beneath oversized men’s shirts. I get the feeling you really enjoyed writing Avalon? He adores her, but only when he’s willing to admit to himself that she exists.īB: The dialogue is deliciously pacy. NZ: Bran feels ambivalence about her attachment to Peter, and the novel is framed as her confession – an attempt to excuse falling in love, when it’s never justifiable and in this case particularly dubious, even though Peter isn’t abusive. Sex without sexual freedom is icky.īB: Why do you give away the ending on the first page? Sex based on long-term mutual attraction is a beautiful gift, when it happens, but it’s a shame so many people take it as a cue to get married. Nell Zink: I’m an optimist about friendship.
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