Interview with M.M. DeLuca

What are 5 things you would want to find?

  1. The wardrobe filled with fur coats that leads you into the winter world of Narnia from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

  2. The notebooks containing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s musings.

  3. More of Sylvia Plath’s poetry recordings.

  4. My lost copy of Bowie’s album, Hunky Dory.

  5. An end to prejudice and hate.

What are 5 things you would want to hide? 

  1. My earliest poems.

  2. My anxiety when one of my books first comes out.

  3. Chocolates, especially caramels.

  4. My early collection of speeding tickets.

  5. An awful picture of me at thirteen as a scowling bridesmaid wearing blue brocade.

If you could choose anywhere in the world for your book to be hidden, where would it be and why?

Underneath Prebends Bridge in Durham City, England. The most gorgeous view in the world.

If you could find any book, which would it be and why?

The Story of Belinda Bunny, a nighttime story my dad made up when I was a child.

Who would you want to find your book (another author, celebrity, et cetera)?

Margaret Atwood, the best, most brilliant and wittiest writer ever.

 
 
 

Visit Bedtime Stories to listen to M.M. DeLuca read an excerpt from The Savage Instinct