How much fun was writing dialogue for such a duplicitous, insecure character?
Oh, tons of fun. But not as hard as a lot of interviewers have tried to get me to admit. I don’t think I’m much like AL in real life, but I think we all have those kinds of evil thoughts, and we all struggle with rationalizing our decisions and the people we’ve become. I feel like I’ve failed when someone writes a review that loves the book but calls the character one-dimensional or pure evil. I’d like to think he’s a real human being, just one that’s so caught up in this world that he can’t see his way out and he’s lost touch with reality. But a lot of his blog entries are emotionally real to at least a part of me, and hopefully a part of a lot of people. As a first-time author, what’s it like seeing your book in stores? What’s the reaction been? There’s been talk of a TV show. How’s that working out? It was very exciting to walk into a Barnes & Noble for the first time and see the copies of my book on the New Fiction table. I watched from a distance for about 15 minutes just to see i
