Beth Revis is the 作者 of Across the Universe and its sequel A Million Suns (just released this January!).I haven't read either of these 图书 yet (mostly because they are never on the shelves in my library--Good for Beth, bad for Small!), but they're on my TBR and I've spent 更多 time than I should probably admit to oogling their gorgeous covers. I've also managed to sneak a peek at the first chapter and WOW, talk about dramatic!

Beth was kind enough to stop 由 today and answer some of my very important 问题 (you know, about 接吻 and stuff).





Q: Which one of your characters would you...

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Recommended. For readers of young adult fiction, whether you're a teenager yourself 或者 just like the genre, there have never been 更多 choices. Dystopian YA fiction is a particularly trendy category these days. Science fiction writers have always imagined dystopias, 或者 futuristic societies ruled 由 oppressive governments, where the freedoms we enjoy today have vanished. 最近的 series, such as Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfield's Uglies, have brought the concept to a younger audience.


Across the Universe 由 Beth Revis also presents a dystopia, but with a twist....

Synopsis: A 爱情 out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as 《冰雪奇缘》 cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her 《冰雪奇缘》 slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the 《勇敢传说》 new world of a spaceship that lives 由 its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t...

On the “Release Eve” of her debut novel, Across the Universe, we’d like to introduce 你 to Beth Revis.
Beth has a great website, so it was hard to find 问题 that she hadn’t already answered. After putting on my thinking cap, I managed to come up with some things to ask that hadn’t already been answered. Beth is a former English teacher who left that profession in June of 2010 in order to pursue 写作 full time. Here’s what Beth had to say:
Eve’s 粉丝 Garden: How did 你 come up with the idea for Across the Universe?

Beth Revis: It all came from an idea for the twist at the...