{"id":585,"date":"2012-04-26T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swoontini.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2012-04-26T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:41:21","slug":"swoontini-interview-victoria-schwab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinalaurenbooks.com\/Clo2\/2012\/04\/swoontini-interview-victoria-schwab\/","title":{"rendered":"Swoontini Interview: VICTORIA SCHWAB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi swoonies!! It’s been a long week, can we sit down? Put our feet up? Let’s let Christina paint our nails (so relaxing). We hope you all caught up with us for the Swoony Boy Alert yesterday<\/a> *fans selves.* We’re giving away a copy of THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE<\/a>! Woot! And today, we have the SERIOUSLY ADORABLE Victoria Schwab here visiting! If you haven’t read her book, THE NEAR WITCH<\/a>, well get on that ASAP! Don’t have it? Leave her some love and be entered to win one. YES WE LOVE GIVING AWAY BOOKSES.<\/p>\n

Hello GORGEOUS! We are so thrilled that you\u2019re here having a Swoontini Slumber party. And thanks for bringing the cupcakes! *gobbles*
\n<\/strong>Lovelies!!! Thank you so much for having me. I brought you a delicious spread, but as you can see, I had to poison test them.<\/p>\n

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\nCan never be too careful when it comes to cupcakes\u2026<\/p>\n

You are forgiven!! So, we asked Agent Holly about your narwhal love, and the story is totally adorable.\u00a0 Would you share your version with our readers?
\n<\/strong>Okay, so here\u2019s the truth. I was living in Liverpool last spring, writing a book (THE ARCHIVED, January 2013<\/a>) and even though I lived with eight other people in a house, I was lonely. Specifically, I was feeling hug-deprived, and since the majority of my housemates were not the hugging sort, I went online and was looking for a stuffed animal. I\u2019d wandered onto squishable.com and it was there I discovered a dog and a cat and a bird and THIS:<\/p>\n

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\nAnd I was delighted, but had NO IDEA what it was. So I looked it up, discovered it was a \u201cnarwhal\u201d and became positively taken with it as a mythical species, spreading my narwhal love across the internet.<\/p>\n

The problem is, narwhals AREN\u2019T mythical. They\u2019re totally real. And I didn\u2019t know that until SIX MONTHS LATER, when it came to light ON TWITTER, and half my followers gave me the 140-character equivalent of this look \u2026 (O_o) \u2026 because apparently they all knew, and assumed I did too, since I\u2019d spent months preaching about the epic level of narwhals.<\/p>\n

And maybe they thought I\u2019d be embarrassed, but the truth is, learning they were real made me love narwhals EVEN MORE because it was proof of how much magic there is in the world.<\/p>\n

Seriously. Cutest story ever. Tell us about teenage Victoria. What books would have her swooning and what books would have her standing on the table, cheering for the badass chick?
\n<\/strong>Oh dear. Teenage Victoria, then with more valley girl accent, got dropped into a SOUTHERN ALL GIRLS PREP SCHOOL at the ripe bold rebellious age of 13. And from books to TV to movies, even teen V would have been cheering for the secret agents and the villains. I have to think she would have loved Ally Carter\u2019s books<\/a> had they been around then. Instead she devoured Harry Potter, and kind of wanted to be a Slytherin. Teen V also would have SWOONED for Graceling<\/a>, White Cat<\/a>, and Hex Hall<\/a>. Give her Graces, Curse Workers, Demons, and hot boys like Archer \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

OH SWOON. We agree. You have a month off and Warren Buffett\u2019s credit card at your disposal. You are NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE. So, what do you do?
\n<\/strong>There are two things I love to do in this life. One of them is write. The other is travel. Well, actually the other is WANDER, as in wanderlust, but let\u2019s call it travel so it sounds less like an affliction and more like a hobby \ud83d\ude09 Anway, I\u2019d take that card and do a trip around the world, first-class, swanky hotel, room service and private tours of old cities.<\/p>\n

Who would be your fictional best friend? Who would be Lexi\u2019s fictional best friend (in a non-Near-Witch book!)
\n<\/strong>Fictional best friend? Give me Cassel from Holly Black\u2019s Curse Workers series<\/a>. To elaborate would be to incriminate, but I think we\u2019d get along swell. Or as well as Cassel can get along with anyone :p<\/p>\n

Lexi\u2019s fictional friend is a harder pick, but her fascination with natural magic would have drawn her to someone like Cate from BORN WICKED, or someone strong and independent, like Katsa from GRACELING.<\/p>\n

Is there a book out there you think deserves more love and attention? Tell the Swoontini readers what they should drop everything to read right now.
\n<\/strong>It\u2019s getting quite a bit already, but it\u2019s so, so deserved that I want to keep shouting it from the rooftops: SHADOW AND BONE by Leigh Bardugo<\/a>. It\u2019s the best thing I\u2019ve read lately. The way I like to describe it is that it\u2019s fantasy has been stripped to fairy tale elegance. There\u2019s nothing extraneous or long-winded, and yet the world feels so deliciously rich, the plot wonderfully compelling, and the characters are just fantastic. It\u2019s positively brilliant.<\/p>\n

We have heard a TON about that book! CANNOT WAIT. Ok: Quick Fires:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Favorite accent:\u00a0<\/strong>Scottish. Mmmmm. I\u2019m actually fairly fond of English as well. But I don\u2019t swoon for Irish. One might speculate that it\u2019s because I\u2019m mostly Scottish and English, and have some kind of inbred animosity with the Irish, but I think it might be because Irish is in a higher register than Scottish and\u2026I\u2019ve clearly given this too much thought.<\/p>\n

You cannot possibly give “favorite accent” too much thought (if you ask us). If one food could be calorie-free, what would you choose:
\n<\/strong>Nutella and Teddy Grahams. It\u2019s a PROBLEM, kids. I can\u2019t stop dunking. It all started because I felt nostalgic for Dunkaroos, this kids snack with a little bit of frosting and this kangaroo shaped cookies, so I tried to recreate the delicacy with the only things I had, namely Nutella and Teddy Grahams, and the result was the most addictive snack I\u2019ve ever discovered.<\/p>\n

The world would thank you for making nutella calorie free, girlfriend. Best Halloween costume you\u2019ve ever seen:\u00a0<\/strong>Besides my own gender-bending take on D\u2019Artagnan?\u00a0<\/span>
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\nHmmm\u2026probably this:<\/p>\n

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\nOh, wait, that\u2019s not a Halloween costume! That\u2019s Holly Root\u2019s face photoshopped onto Jon Snow.<\/p>\n

HEE! YOU ARE CUTE! And that picture of Holly gave us all the lols. You are currently reading:<\/strong> I\u00a0HUNT KILLERS by Barry Lyga<\/a>, SPELL BOUND by Rachel Hawkins<\/a>, and DEMON\u2019S LEXICON by Sarah Rees Brennan<\/a>\u2026it\u2019s possible I have a slight problem when it comes to doing one thing at a time. I just treat books the way I treat meals. I get a taste for something, and go for it. Sometimes it\u2019s murderers, sometimes it\u2019s magic, and sometimes it\u2019s both.<\/p>\n

Buttered popcorn Jelly Belly\u2019s are awesome or vomit-inducing:\u00a0<\/strong>They\u2019re tricky buggers, because they smell tempting, and at FIRST they\u2019re tasty, or at least intriguing, but then they\u2019re disgusting so you spit them out, and then you smell another one, and think maybe you should give them a second chance, and the violent cycle starts all over again until you give up and eat chocolate because it\u2019s a far less abusive sweet.<\/p>\n

Actually…I think we can both agree with that answer. Strangely. Thanks so much for playing with us! We love you like Edward loves smelling Bella\u2019s hair.
\n<\/strong>My pleasure, lovelies! Also, someone found my blog today by searching Edward Cullen Bedroom Time. I\u2019m\u2026I\u2019m not sure how I feel about that. Especially because I\u2019ve never mentioned that particular corner-lurking vampire on my site.<\/p>\n

Isn’t she adorable!?! Leave some love and you could win your very own copy of \u00a0The Near Witch!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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