Evan drinks vodka because it’s the purest liquid on earth. I am indeed – though my favorite personal booze of choice is bourbon. Also, I want Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner to play Joey and Evan if the Orphan X series were to make it to the screen.ģ) Are you a vodka connoisseur? If not, where did this idea/knowledge come from? If so, are your favorites in the books? I consider her the #2 character in the seriesnow. And I love the ways she brought out different facets of Evan and his humanity. But through the course of writing the story of this brilliant, irreverent, sixteen-year-old hacker, I fell in love with her. I you read the third Orphan X book, you can see right where it was supposed to happen. Was Joey (a teenager) always a planned character? Her relationship with Evan has become a whole vibe.īelieve it or not, I was planning to kill Joey off at the end of Hellbent (the first book in which she appears). It was something else to see The Nowhere Man up there atop that list. My first #1 Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback was pretty special. Are there any that mean the most to you? Or holds a fond memory?

American library association thriller of the year.

Gregg Hurwitz is an Instant New York Times bestseller.

BECAUSE ORPHAN X IS AN EIGHT-BOOK SERIES, THERE ARE BOUND TO BE SOME SPOILERS Gregg Hurwitz Interview Honors And Acclaim He signed my book because… I’m a nerd and he’s cool.Īnd with that, let’s jump into this interview that, when granted, I was floored and honored to do.

I knew him from his participation in writing the Dark Night series of Batman comics. At the time, I was just starting to read young adult novels and hadn’t read The Rains. At that time, he had just published The Rains, a Young Adult Zombie book. The last educational conference I went to was the ALAN-YA conference in St Louis. So, I will not discuss the books outside of the context of the interview.Īdditionally, I want to tell a short story about my first interaction with Gregg Hurwitz. Tomorrow, I will post an overview and review (without spoilers) of the Orphan X series. I want to mention a couple of thoughts before jumping into our interview with Orphan X Series author, Gregg Hurwitz. Before We Jump Into Gregg Hurwitz’s Interview

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