![]() ![]() Did you ever imagine how popular your series would become? Unafraid to kill your favourite characters. Sum up your series in 10 words or less.įunny. Everything else grew from there - the other characters, the world, the plots - and it has yet to stop growing. I knew instantly that he was a skeleton detective, that he wore nice suits, that he was witty and intelligent and a little arrogant. Skulduggery’s name popped into my head in the summer of 2005, and it told me everything I needed to know about him. ![]() Where did the initial idea for Skulduggery Pleasant come from? This means I have to make it suitable for as wide an audience as I possibly can, but I’ve discovered the very simple truth that whether you’re nine or ninety, you can still get a kick out of the same things. I think Skulduggery Pleasant is for everyone. Some ideas are for older readers, some are for younger readers, and some are for everyone. Why write specifically for young readers? And I do that as a job, and people pay me money for it. I get to daydream all day, and then put those daydreams down on paper. I write because there is nothing else I would ever want to do. The following is his interview with Cracking the Cover in conjunction with the series rerelease in the United States. Derek Landy is the author of the Skulduggery Pleasant series. ![]()
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