What booksellers are saying about All of Us Villains So instead of pushing back…we listened to each other."Īnd they credit the enthusiastic reception All Us Villains has received to the lessons they learned in writing it together: "The final version of All of Us Villains exists on a knife’s edge of such contradictions: heroism and villainy, blame and responsibility, fun and fright, a fantasy story that sometimes feels brutally real. "Our differing opinions didn’t mean someone was right and someone was wrong–it meant each of us had something important to say. Instead, Foody and Herman turned the project into something that deepened and strengthened both. Disagreements threatened to not only scuttle the book, but damage the friendship.
It’s one thing to share a manuscript but quite another to share a creative process. "but neither of us were brave enough to tackle a trope so famous and dramatic alone."Īs it turned out, collaborating on a novel was as challenging for the two writers as its plot was for their characters. "We had a favorite trope in common, the death tournament," they note in a recent column on John Scalzi’s website, Whatever. But the idea for All of Us Villains felt capital-B Big from the beginning. ―Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman, (via Whatever)Īmanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman were already established YA writers and best friends when they had "the big idea" ― to write the novel together they were each afraid to write on their own. Some ideas start small - a feeling, a scene, a whisper that grows into a roar inside an author’s mind.
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