Interviews

Exploring the Blank Page (11/13/20)
“It took me a while before my story went from readable to publishable.”

The Hope Prose Podcast (09/20/20)
“I built [my faery world] one book at a time… sort of feeling my way into the world myself.”

Canadian Launch Podcast: Talking about SWIFT with R.J. Anderson (09/10/20)
“People have to be able to believe for themselves… so that is a recurring theme in my books.”

Family Fiction: Speculative Q&A with R.J. Anderson (07/29/20)
“[T]he idea that Ivy might actually not be swift compared to others, and might have to overcome that in the story, was especially compelling to me.”

Kinderlit: The Proust-Esque Questionnaire (09/02/15)
“All my protagonists are misfits in some way or another, often painfully so.”

Enclave Publishing (06/19/15)
“I write slowly, painstakingly, with lots of rewriting and thinking as I go.”

AMA on Reddit (01/20/14)
“When I try to sell a book, I really hope that an editor somewhere will [love it]… But I don’t try to bend my ideas to suit some notion of the current market, because that way lies madness.”

CanLit for Little Canadians (12/02/13)
“There were times I thought researching [Ultraviolet and Quicksilver] would kill me, but I’m very proud of the way they turned out.”

deCOMPOSE (02/21/12)
“All my books so far have been rooted in the same fundamental concept — that there are extraordinary magical, supernatural or extraterrestrial beings living secretly as part of our own modern world, and that only a few humans ever learn of their existence.”

VIDEO: In Person with R.J. Anderson (11/20/11)

VIDEO: Q&A with Orchard Books  (02/04/11)

Opening Up New Worlds With R.J. Anderson (12/06/2010)
“It seemed like the books I kept coming back to again and again were those I’d discovered in my childhood and early teens.”

We Love YA (12/28/09)
“I think I just have a crazy writer brain, really. Ideas for me were like an itch I had to scratch, and it never occurred to me NOT to write.”

R.J. Anderson Unveils the Writing Life (03/24/09)
“I didn’t want to force anything in there, but on the other hand, I didn’t just want to write an exciting story with no depth or substance to it…”

Look at that Book (02/14/09)
“…it ticked me off that in all the books I’d read the disabled guy never got to be the romantic lead.”

Fumbling With Fiction (11/18/08)
“It took me a ridiculously long time to realize that my book was YA instead of an ‘adult’ fantasy.”