As a teenager, she wrote Sailor Moon fan fiction under the pen name of Alicia Blade. I guess that's a lot of things that appeal to me about her, but she's been a really fun character to write! (The two leading men in Scarlet, Wolf and Captain Thorne, aren't half bad either.Meyer was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. She was raised by her grandmother, an ex-military pilot who now owns a small farm in southern France, who not only taught Scarlet how to fly a spaceship and shoot a gun, but also to have a healthy respect and appreciation for nature. Scarlet is awesome-she's very independent, a bit temperamental, and has an outspokenness that tends to get her in trouble sometimes. What is appealing to you most about this character as you work on the book? The next book in the Lunar Chronicles is called Scarlet, and is about Little Red Riding Hood. We'd just have enough time to enjoy some fresh coconut before we were rescued. If you were stranded on a desert island, which character from Cinder would you want with you?Ĭinder, definitely! She has an internet connection in her brain, complete with the ability to send and receive comms (which are similar to e-mails). On those days I'll write in bed or take my laptop out for coffee or lunch. I have a home office that I've decorated with vintage fairy tale treasures that I've collected (my favorite is a Cinderella cookie jar from the forties) and NaNoWriMo posters, but sometimes writing there starts to feel too much like work. I think we'd all like to believe we'd have that same inner strength if we ever needed it.

She's a romantic and a daydreamer and maybe a little on the naïve side-things that could be said about me too-although she does find courage when it's needed most. I'm much more like Cress, who makes a brief cameo in Cinder and then takes a more starring role in the third book. I wish I could say that I'm clever and mechanically-minded like Cinder, but no-I can't fix anything. Which of your characters is most like you? Marissa Meyer on Cinder, writing, and leading men Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness.

No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl.Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing.

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