I’m a developmental psychologist by training, so my character design process involves giving a lot of consideration to how a character became who they are, the impact of their childhood, and the way that their innate characteristics were then shaped by the environment they grew up in.
Are Avery, the Hawthornes, or any of the other characters in the novel inspired by or based on specific individuals? This is the only one of my books that started with a place, rather than a character or premise. It was years before I had the actual story to go with the house. And then I started thinking about the kind of man who would build a house like that. I started thinking about the fictional version of this-an over-the-top mansion, instead of a house, dozens of secret passages instead of one. He’d put so much creative energy into the house that the house just feels like him.
When my parents eventually moved into the house (which does have my requested secret passage!), I was just overcome with this feeling that I could feel my dad’s presence in every room. He asked me if I had any requests, and I requested a secret passage. My dad had recently retired and became really involved in the design process he sketched out almost everything in the house himself, from tiny details to the big picture. When I was a senior in college, my parents embarked on the years-long process of designing (and eventually building) their dream house. What was your inspiration for The Inheritance Games? Her latest novel is The Inheritance Games and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog. Jen is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she holds a dual appointment in Psychology and Professional Writing. In addition to writing YA novels, Jen has also written original pilot scripts for television networks like USA and MTV, and she is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of fandom and the cognitive science of fiction and the imagination more broadly. Jen wrote her first published novel when she was nineteen-years-old and sold her first five books while still in college. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science, including graduate degrees from Cambridge University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Yale University, where she received her Ph.D. Jennifer Lynn Barnes (who mostly goes by Jen) is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed young adult novels.
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