{"id":2272,"date":"2014-10-08T14:59:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bathfestivals.org.uk\/childrens-literature\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2014-10-08T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:04:48","slug":"an-interview-with-sally-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bathfestivals.org.uk\/childrens-literature\/2014\/10\/08\/an-interview-with-sally-green\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Sally Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Telegraph Bath Children&#8217;s Literature Festival, 28 September, a glorious Sunday afternoon.<\/strong> A posse of Lower Sixth girls at the packed-out, BGS-sponsored event, keen to hear established novelists Marcus Sedgwick and <strong>Sally Green<\/strong> who burst on to the scene in March.<\/p>\n<p>Upbeat music welcomes Sally on stage: presenter Gill McLay explains that Marcus is stuck on a \u2019plane somewhere. Sighs of disappointment \u2026 until Gill delves into the main themes of Green\u2019s debut, <em>Half Bad<\/em>. Sally wanted to \u2018turn good and bad stereotypes on their heads\u2019. Racism and prejudice are rife as her protagonist Nathan is persecuted by white witches because of his black witch father, the evil Marcus (\u2018Not this Marcus,\u2019 Sally jokes, referring to the absent Sedgwick). Nathan wasn\u2019t easy to write, Sally explains. \u2018He\u2019s the good guy who does bad things. He swears a lot for one.\u2019 Laughter from the audience: Nathan\u2019s foul language helps make him lovable.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly a remarkably cool, non-evil Marcus Sedgwick runs in, joining in with incredible ease. \u2018Do you write characters opposite to yourself, as a deliberate challenge?\u2019 he\u2019s asked. \u2018There\u2019s always an element of challenge,\u2019 he replies. \u2018That\u2019s the point of being a writer.\u2019 \u2018<em>Half Bad<\/em> and <em>Ghosts of Heaven<\/em> (Sedgwick\u2019s new title) are both quite violent,\u2019 Gill observes, wondering if novelists feel the need to censor themselves. \u2018Not at all,\u2019 says Marcus, and Sally agrees. He refers to a rape scene from his novel <em>Revolver<\/em>: \u2018Young people may not understand what\u2019s going on; adults probably do. Somewhere in the middle, teens realise: then it\u2019s their choice \u2013 whether to keep reading or not.\u2019 Murmurs of interested agreement from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling, Gill turns to research: \u2018Sally, <em>Half Bad<\/em> takes place in this world, but how did you research the witches and other supernatural things?\u2019 Green cringes. \u2018I hate research. I think I did about ten minutes: apart from that I made it all up. With <em>Half Wild<\/em> now I\u2019m doing a lot more, interviews about soldiers coming home from Afghanistan and what they go through. Nathan\u2019s mind changes a lot through the new book: I wanted to develop that.\u2019 <em>Half Wild<\/em> is her second novel, out in March. \u2018Now I need to start the third one in the series, but I keep putting it off. It\u2019s just that first blank page that stares at you. But after that I can just write, the story just pours out of me. Then I\u2019m fine.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Guest Blogger, Olivia Clements from <\/em><em>Bristol Grammar School<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Interview with Sally Green\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolgrammarschool.co.uk\/Downloads\/Senior-School\/Sally-Green-Interview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0a full interview by the pupils of Bristol Grammar School with Sally Green here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Telegraph Bath Children&#8217;s Literature Festival, 28 September, a glorious Sunday afternoon. A posse of Lower Sixth girls at the packed-out, BGS-sponsored event, keen to hear established novelists Marcus Sedgwick and Sally Green who burst on to the scene in March. 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