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(Ep: 553) When the Monsters Escape the Book: Yuvashri Harish on Kill Your Darlings
What happens when the monsters you've spent your life reading about suddenly come crawling off the page?
Author Yuvashri Harish joins The We Make Children's Books Podcast to talk about her debut YA horror novel, Kill Your Darlings, a fast-moving Halloween nightmare that mixes classic literary monsters, a resurrected author, family responsibilities and some very real human fears.
We talk about bringing the traditions of Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow into a contemporary YA story; why horror can be such an effective way to explore racism, misogyny and power…
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