There’s a great interview over at Mother Reader with Matthew Cody and Aaron Starmler about their upcoming middle grade titles, and I have to say, I love Matt’s answer about what influenced him to write The Dead Gentleman:
It came out of my love of a certain kind of fiction (see above) but it also came from a childhood fear of mine — the closet door. My older brothers used to tease me about this, but I was convinced that my bedroom closet hid all sorts of monsters and baddies. (It didn’t help that my closet also led to the attic. Double-threat, there!) After finishing Powerless, I was looking around for my next project and talking with my editor about several possible things I wanted to work on — a historical fiction, a steampunk adventure — but none of them really grabbed me (or my editor!). But then I got to thinking about that closet door again, the closed closet door at night, and how universal that image was and I knew I needed to do something with it. In the end that idea kind of pollinated the steampunk book I was toying around with and The Dead Gentleman was born.
Check out the full interview!
2 thoughts on “Teasers for THE DEAD GENTLEMAN”
Love the cover, and it definitely sounds intriguing. Will have to check this one out. (When is THE DEAD GENTLEMAN's release date?)
Oh man, if I'd had a closet door that led to an attic, I would have freaked out as a kid. I'd even be freaked out by that now. Way to turn fear into inspiration, Matthew!
Amy