Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketWe interrupt your regularly scheduled weekend break to tell you there’s an interview up with Philip Pullman at the Literary Review site. Pullman, best known for his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, is currently hard at work on a sequel, called The Book of Dust.

The interview delves into a lot of theological questions, but there are a few good craft pulls. I like this:

(The question:) In the new edition of ‘His Dark Materials’ you have added a series of what you call Lantern Slides at the end of each volume, glimpses of the characters in different but possible situations. Aren’t these an invitation to others to write stories about your created worlds?

(The answer:) It already happens on the Internet. It’s called fan fiction: there are six hundred or so already doing it, maybe more now. Bloody nerve, isn’t it?

Read the whole interview HERE.

Therese Walsh co-founded Writer Unboxed in 2006. Her debut novel, The Last Will of Moira Leahy, sold to Random House in a two-book deal in 2008, was named one of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2009, and was a Target Breakout Book in 2010. She's never been published with a lit magazine, but LOST's Carlton Cuse liked her haiku best on Twitter, and that made her pretty happy.
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