Kidlit Adults Will Actually Like Interview
I had a wonderful chat with Josh Weiss-roessler for his blog. I took questions about SfW, writing, and life for him, and also his enthusiastic son.
More than just an interview, he opens his blog with a heartwarming story about his family falling in love with the books. This, right here, is exactly why I write.
“My son was eight or nine when he discovered Stealing from Wizards for our family. And I do mean our family. One day, while just the two of us are in the car, he asks me to put on a podcast he’s been listening to at night. “It’s a book,” he tells me.
I put it on and the voice of R.A. Consell effortlessly transports me to the magical realm and Detritus Lane, a 10-mile-long road that stretches across the whole of Canada, features buildings from every era of human history (that are often bigger on the inside), and plenty of shadows you can hide in — though you need to take care for the shadows that want to hide in you.
Thus begins the haunting, beautiful, heartwarming, and — yes — funny story of 12-year-old thief Kuro and his magic school classmates. Across three wonderful books, Kuro has slowly come to find his place at Avalon Academy, settling in with one of the oddest, most lovable found families I’ve ever come across, all while being truly horrendous at school and possibly even worse at magic.
After my conversion, we shared the podcast with my wife and daughter, and both of them have listened to and read it pretty obsessively in the time since, even gifting the books to friends from time to time. There was a good year or more over which I’m pretty sure my son listened to the first two books every single night.
Yes, it’s that good.”
Read the full interview here