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And now, on to the interview with Joanne Renaud!
Let’s talk
about
Doors, your latest novel, a
time-travel romance.
Do you listen to music as you write and if
so, what was in your playlist for this book?
Why yes, I listened to a great deal of
music—
Doors is partially about people
bonding through music, even if they don’t always listen to the same thing.
Orne, the hero of
Doors, is an
ex-raver who loves electronica, both classic and current (including seminal
acts like Phuture and Orbital), and Jackie is an ex-punk who loves Rage Against
the Machine.
You can listen to the
playlist
here—there are
many songs that I referred to throughout the book, including Wall of Voodoo’s
“Mexican Radio,” and Phuture’s “Acid Trax.”
Did you watch any television shows or
movies to transport you to the period? Any other resources you used?
Well,
Doors isn’t really a time travel book where people travel to
another period of history—it’s more about how parallel timelines form as a
result of time travel.
It’s more along
the lines of
Sliding Doors or
Lathe of Heaven. (
Lathe and Ursula LeGuin was a HUGE influence on this book.) It’s
very much in the multiverse theory of time travel. It’s set in the present day.
(Well, 2010.)
Your first book, A
Question of Time, was also a
time-travel romance, but Doors is
not a direct sequel. Will there be a third time-travel book to “round out” the
series?
Yup! There’s going to be a third book, set
in 1966—it’s called Out of Time. It gets into the origin event of what causes
the ‘time bubble’ phenomenon in the first place, plus Cold War spying
shenanigans and mod culture and music and lots of awesome swinging ‘60s stuff.
It’s set in New York, again, but it’s such a fascinating city to me.
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