![]() On the page and off the page, I was ready to be done. The sixth book ends in a place where I don’t think anyone will be clamoring for more. For them to be able to have a fairy tale series that is subversive and questioning of all the things that I took for granted is really what life’s about so many of us do for a living the thing that heals us and the wounds we had as kids. I think the most rewarding thing is getting to watch kids fall in love with this world, which is so opposite to the one I clung to as a kid. ![]() It took six books and almost eight years of writing to feel like I’d come to a place where I could finally let it go, where I’d successfully rewritten the programming of my childhood. So, in a way, I felt like I was correcting my childhood by rewriting these books. I grew up on Disney movies exclusively and found so many holes in them, like the way that Disney defined binaries: good and evil, boy and girl, old and young, happy and unhappy, and all those things that you don’t question as a kid. ![]() The School for Good and Evil series is super personal to me it’s the kind of story I wish I had had as a kid. ![]() How does it feel to be wrapping up this series after so many years? ![]()
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