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SciFiChick.com was recently able to interview accomplished author Julianna Baggott, author of the YA dystopian thriller Pure – reviewed here.

Can you tell us a bit about Pure in your own words?
It starts with a 16 year old girl hiding in an ash-choked cabinet, her hand fused to the head of a doll, the result of the Detonations. She lives near rubble fields and deadlands. There’s also a boy who’s survived in a Dome. He’s a Pure. Their two lives become entwined in ways that make the novel a thriller.

Post-apocalyptic/dystopian novels are popular right now. What do you think sets Pure apart from the rest?
I wanted to tell an intimate story in a large cinematic landscape — a world I got to make by hand. From there, the novel is built from the dark finery of my subconscious on a lot of levels so my own twisted head sets it apart, I suppose.

Pure’s future world is a unique and dark place. Has creating it been a gradual process, or did you come up with it right away?
Every novel is 17 million ideas — not just one. Still, some parts rushed in — all windswept with ash. Others took tinkering.

Will this be a trilogy?
Yes. F– USE comes out February 2013. BURN follows in February 2014. I will attach — for the first time! — the cover for F– USE. It just came out! [see above]

When writing for the young adult market, do you write with that target audience in mind?

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