Malinda Lo

I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here. This question comes from my editor, Kate Sullivan, who asked me this: In class, we’d sit for hours dissecting the symbolism in a novel, and I always wondered if we were stretching for meaning or if the author actually ... More→

I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here. Sarah asks: Why did you include Sidhean in the story? What about his character made him fun to write? In most, if not all, versions of Cinderella, Cinderella is assisted in her desires to go to the ball (and ... More→

I’m answering a series of interesting questions about Ash. Read previous posts in this series here. Hadas asks: I have some thoughts and theories about the names you chose — their meaning and the partition between regular or ordinary names and the more fantasy-like ones. I won’t tire you with my ideas, but I would ... More→

A while ago, I asked for interesting questions about Ash, with the idea that I would write up a post interviewing myself with these questions. Well, let me just say that some of the questions are so interesting that they deserve a blog post of their own! So, instead of torturing myself by trying to ... More→