What historical item in the book was the most fun to research?.
Heroes are inherently difficult, because the hero’s journey is basically the same, story to story – so trying to give them unique and individual personalities is how I differentiate them. My characters are always their own people. I try not to model them after anyone, as I want to respect them enough to be unique. Are Nick and Allie inspired/modeled on anyone in particular?.Defying the genre is what made it interesting to me. We’ve seen so many ghost stories, how do you tell one that’s original? So I set out to take a lot of the tropes and conventions of ghost stories, and break them. The fact that it was a ghost story kind of turned me off at first. What made you want to write a ghost story?.In Everlost, those towers will stand forever, and nothing and no one will ever tear them down. That idea bounced around in my head for years until it connected with a reason to tell it. It was realizing that the Twin Towers would still exist in Everlost that made me want to tell it. What if you tripped over your own shoelaces on your way down the tunnel? Where do you go if you don’t quite make it all the way to the light. While watching a TV show dramatizing people’s experiences, a stray thought came to me. I was always fascinated by people who have had near-death experiences, as so many people experience the same thing – a tunnel, with a light at the far end. Where did the idea for Everlost/The Skinjacker Trilogy come from?.Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the “Criminal Art” of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost.To celebrate the relaunch of the Skinjacker Trilogy here’s a quick interview I did that provides some fun insights into the world of Everlost. When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost souls, Nick feels like he’s found a home, but Allie isn’t satisfied spending eternity between worlds. It’s a magical, yet dangerous, place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. Instead, they’re caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: A shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. Nick and Allie don’t survive the car accident - and their souls don’t exactly get where they’re supposed to go. In this eerie and atmospheric novel, New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what might lie in between.
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