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“I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.”

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Kelly Link, born in July 1969, is an accomplished editor with extensive experience in the publishing industry. She has worked for several renowned publishers, where she has been responsible for editing and planning various projects. Link is known for her keen insight and passion for literature, making significant contributions to the development of the publishing industry. more

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“Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use. I only ever come up with what seems to me absolutely essential to make the story work. I'm not usually an overwriter. As I revise, it's usually a matter of adding in as much vivid details as seem necessary to make the story come clear without slowing down the momentum of the story.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...”

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Author:Kelly Link

“What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.”

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Book:Pretty Monsters

Source: Pretty Monsters

“In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.”

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Book:Stranger Things Happen

Source: Stranger Things Happen

“When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.”

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Author:Kelly Link