They were just opposed.Įverything else got trashed and I started again, this time looking at Victor and Eli and how they got to be arch-nemeses, how Eli came to be thought of as a hero, making Victor automatically the villain. In writing about those two groups, I became fascinated by two things: 1) the leaders of the respective groups, Victor and Eli, and why they hated each other, and 2) the idea that the labels hero and villain had nothing to do with whether these people were good or bad. Originally, this guy with superpowers came to this city called Merit and was recruited by two rival groups, one that called themselves heroes, and the other that called themselves villains simply because they were on the other side. I’ve always wanted to write about superpowers, but VICIOUS actually started out as someone else’s story. Two pre-med students discover the key to superpowers-near-death experiences-and set out to create their own abilities. I have two YA books on shelves right now (THE NEAR WITCH, about a village where children start to disappear, and THE ARCHIVED, about a library of the dead) and my first adult novel, a supervillain origin story called VICIOUS, hits shelves this week! GIVE US THE 140-CHARACTER STORY PITCH: I’m a 26-year-old superwholockian who likes to write about dark things. But existential crises aside, I’m the product of a British mother, a Beverly Hills father, and a southern upbringing. It’s always the first question asked and it usually leads to “Oh god, who AM I?” and that leads to drinking…tea, of course. TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?
The writing and storycraft is Schwab’s own superpower as this tale leaps off the page in all its dark, four-color comic-book glory.”) Vicious comes out next week. (My blurb, by the way: “An epic collision of super-powered nemeses. It was one of those books I opened, and it was like a hand around my neck that yanked me into the story. And I expected neither of those things would come true. So, when Tor said, “Hey, maybe you blurb this book?” and they waved Victoria Schwab’s book Vicious at me, I told them the same thing I tell everyone else: if I have time, and if I really love it. And already writing four books in the next 12 months. I get a lot of books to potentially blurb these days, and I’d love to hug and squeeze each book to my bosom and blurb them unabashedly, but I’m a slow-ass reader.
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