![]() Obviously, judging by my output, most of my ideas are either scary or fantastical. I guess the best way to put it is that I’m most drawn to whatever my idea is and the best way to tell it. When I get an idea, there’s a process I go through deciding the best way to tell the story and then I pursue that no matter what the genre. So when I became an author, it was equally natural to write about the very things I’d been reading about. At first, as a young reader, I would just soak up everything I could, naturally gravitating toward reading history, science fiction, fantasy and horror. What are you most drawn to and why?Ī: In many ways I’m like a sponge. But you’ve also written nonfiction (including a biography of former Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker and the titles Monsterology and Villainology), as well as a historic novel, Megiddo's Shadow. Q: Some might peg you as a thriller, fantasy or steampunk writer. He is the author of twenty-nine novels for young readers including The Hunchback Assignments, which won the prestigious TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and Dust, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature. ![]() Arthur Slade was raised on a ranch in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan. ![]()
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