GMANews: The doomed love stories of Lauren Kate
Lauren Kate answers questions from fans, talks about her inspiration/research for Fallen & Torment, gives her suggestions for casting ideas for the Fallen movie, and much more.
Here are some teasers from the interview:
"I love a doomed love story," declared author Lauren Kate, who recently visted the Philippines to promote Torment, the second book in her bestselling young adult paranormal romance series, Fallen.
"The idea of romance to me is not something like Jane Austen; it's more like The Great Gatsby, where everything is just screwed up and nothing's ever going to work out, but everybody's tragically in love with eathother. I think that's really interesting. These are the kind of romances that tend to show up in my books."
And what could by more doomed than the love between an angel and a mortal? It's doomed spelled with a capital D.
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"I like the idea that there was this strange sacrifice for love," she explains. "To give up a very established place in whatever we imagine Heaven to be like, to come down to Earth to give [the relationship] a shot ... it felt like it could extend beyond just the two of them."
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The movie has a tentative release date of 2012. It will be a big year for followers of Fallen- the Doomsday prophets will have a field day!- as the last book, Rapture, closes the series with the final battle between good and evil in the same year.
Beyond the projects, Lauren has been writing outtakes from Fallen that might later be collected into anthology, and she is considering writing books about the other characters in the series.
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+ Here's official release date for Passion: June 14, 2011. (source)