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Hope Larson Revealed
About Hope Larson
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What is your birthdate?:9/17
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Previous occupations:Comics and freelance illustration are all I've ever done. I'm very lucky.
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Favorite job:During college, I was a clerk in a video store. I loved that job.
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High school and/or college:I started college at the Rochester Institute of Technology and transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago part way through.
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Favorite movie:Right now it's a Japanese film, Linda Linda Linda. It's understated and perfect.
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Favorite television show:This is always changing. While I was drawing Mercury, House, M.D. was the only thing I wanted to watch.
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Big headphones, a double Americano, and a keyboard.
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. There's always a way.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Becoming invisible.
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. At the beach.
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. I admire all women who fight to make their stories heard, whether those stories are true or fictional.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. I'm trying to cut back on "really", "just", and "I think".
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. Right now? Procrastination.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. I'd learn to play the drums.
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. My temper.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. Tenacity.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. I like being who I am.
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. I have no idea! I have tattooed hands (gasp!) now, so maybe that.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Meg Murry!
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. The shark in Jaws.
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. Drawers and cupboards left open. Doors left ajar.
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Anything outdoors, if the weather's nice.
- Q. What’s your fantasy profession?
- A. Park ranger.
On Books and Writing
- Q. How did you come to write Mercury?
- A. Two years ago I was living in rural Nova Scotia, in an almost-town called Hillsvale, down the road from another almost-town, Mt. Uniacke. Mt. Uniacke (yoo-nee-ack!) is a tiny place, just a post office, a fire department, and a gas station. A train track runs through, but the trains don't stop anymore. The town's two claims to fame are the Uniacke Estate, a Georgian mansion built during the early 1800, and the tiny gold rush that took place in the area some time afterward. The gold rush was minor even compared to other gold rushes in Nova Scotia, but it left its mark. The locals remembered. And the soil, poisoned with arsenic and riddled with mine shafts, remembered. I read all about it in copies of the town newsletter I picked up at the post office. I took long runs from my house to the Estate, down the old dirt Post Road where the mail once travelled, and thought about what it must have been like to live there 150 years before. It wasn't hard to imagine.
- Q. How did you come to write Mercury?
- A. Two years ago I was living in rural Nova Scotia, in an almost-town called Hillsvale, down the road from another almost-town, Mt. Uniacke. Mt. Uniacke (yoo-nee-ack!) is a tiny place, just a post office, a fire department, and a gas station. A train track runs through, but the trains don't stop anymore. The town's two claims to fame are the Uniacke Estate, a Georgian mansion built during the early 1800, and the tiny gold rush that took place in the area some time afterward. The gold rush was minor even compared to other gold rushes in Nova Scotia, but it left its mark. The locals remembered. And the soil, poisoned with arsenic and riddled with mine shafts, remembered. I read all about it in copies of the town newsletter I picked up at the post office. I took long runs from my house to the Estate, down the old dirt Post Road where the mail once travelled, and thought about what it must have been like to live there 150 years before. It wasn't hard to imagine.
