Interview with Melina Marchetta, Printz-Winning Author of Jellicoe Road!

wandergirl · Oct 12, 2009

So those of you who know me (and many who don't, but who've seen my posts) know I'm madly in love with Melina Marchetta's 2009 Printz-winning YA novel, Jellicoe Road.

Well, I was fortunate to interview her for our group blog, YA Highway! Sprint on over, read and comment on her awesomeness. While Jellicoe Road takes place in contemporary Australia (though I swear it's laced with intangible magic), her upcoming YA novel, Finnikin of the Rock, is a high fantasy epic. So there's something for everyone. Talk about versatile!

~*Interview with Melina Marchetta*~

kaitlin008 · Oct 12, 2009

Did NOT know that her next book was fantasy.
*Is excited*

This was a great interview, Kirsten

chocowrites · Oct 12, 2009

Great interview

I really need to start reading Jellicoe Road!

wandergirl · Oct 12, 2009

chocowrites said:
Great interview

I really need to start reading Jellicoe Road!

YES you do

What I tell everyone: have patience with the first few chapters, because you will be confused. Then the magic hits you.

kaitlin008 · Oct 12, 2009

Even though they were confusing, I didn't find them slow, though. Or feel frustration. I just felt lost haha.

chocowrites · Oct 12, 2009

YES you do
What I tell everyone: have patience with the first few chapters, because you will be confused. Then the magic hits you.

That's good to hear because I read the first two chapters and it made my head spin, lol. But I will read the whole thing ASAP

MissKris · Oct 12, 2009

lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove.

that is all.

inkspatters · Oct 12, 2009

Finnikin of the Rock is great. I haven't read Jellicoe Road yet. But I will asap because Melina Marchetta is one of the only authors we're forced to read in English class that I actively try and read more of

*Goes off to read interview*

Enna · Oct 12, 2009

I can't wait for Finnikin. Jellicoe was just...... :e2cloud9:

Leila · Oct 13, 2009

I couldn't get into Finnikin for some reason, even though I usually love fantasy, but I adored Jellicoe and Saving Francesca. I'm really excited about her next one

eyeblink · Oct 13, 2009

Good interview. I hadn't realised Melina Marchetta wrote Looking for Alibrandi - I haven't read the novel but I did enjoy the film version, for which she wrote the screenplay. (She won an Australian Film Institute award for it.)

wandergirl · Oct 13, 2009

I'm just so glad Jellicoe Road won the Printz, because it really underscored her amazingness for American audiences who might not have found Melina otherwise.

cscarlet · Oct 13, 2009

*running to bookstore*

Loved your interview! (And totally off subject, but your Avi is beautifully adorable).

Interview with Melina Marchetta, Printz-Winning Author of Jellicoe Road!

wandergirl

~kirsten hubbard

kaitlin008

Seeing newness all the time

chocowrites

scaredy cat

wandergirl

~kirsten hubbard

kaitlin008

Seeing newness all the time

chocowrites

scaredy cat

MissKris

Is the random.

inkspatters

The coordinates keep changing...

Enna

back for more

Leila

bookshop girl

eyeblink

Barbara says hi

wandergirl

~kirsten hubbard

cscarlet

AW = Procrastination.