The novel spans the hundreds of years of Addie’s life. I can honestly say the finished book is the closest I’ve ever managed to an idea in my head. As for things lost, no, in fact, things were lost between idea and first draft, but over the course of revision, the story found its way. The characters changed, their motivations and fears honed into sharp relief by my own growth, the story deepening from an immortality tale to an examination of time and longing and fear and inspiration. Well, I first had the beginnings of the idea when I was 23, and I finished the book when I was 32, so the remarkable thing is that not only did the story shift and grow over time but so did I.
How did the novel evolve and change as you wrote and revised it? Are there any characters or scenes that were lost in the process that you wish had made it to the published version? In that way, Henry is the closest thing to based on a person, but that person is me, or at least, who I would have been if I hadn’t found writing. I never base a fictional character on a real person, lest I feel allied to the inspiration instead of the creation, but I do absolutely take pieces of myself-my fear, anxiety, hope, longing, ambition-and inject them into characters. Are Addie, Luc, Henry, or any of the other characters in the novel inspired by or based on specific individuals? I was inspired by Peter Pan and the loss of memory, by my own grandmother’s dementia and the way my mother watched herself being erased from her memory, by the classic depictions of Faustian bargains and the idea that men and women move through the world differently, and are afforded different space, by the promise of forever, and what it means to leave a mark. It’s many things, drawn together into something cohesive. Sometimes inspiration is a single seed that grows a tree, but most often for me, it’s ingredients in a meal. What was your inspiration for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue? The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is her latest novel and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters. Her work has received critical acclaim, been translated into more than two dozen languages, and has been optioned for television and film. E.” Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series ( A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light), Villains series ( Vicious, Vengeful), Monsters of Verity duology ( This Savage Song, Our Dark Duet), and the Cassidy Blake series ( City of Ghosts, Tunnel of Bones).
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