What's up, Saturnites? I decided the I in Spaceships Around Saturn would be for interview. So, I came up with some questions for Nik about her book! And here they are (with her answers obviously)! :)
1. What inspired you to write American Girl On Saturn?
Oh Emily. The book was YOUR idea. I just wrote it. But it was inspired by a love for music and a certain British-Irish boyband. Maybe people have heard of them. They're called One Direction.
2. What was the funnest scene to write?
There's a scene where Emery is sitting at the dining room table coloring a picture of an elephant in her coloring book. It's a short scene, but the dialogue was fun, and it shows what life is really like when you have three sisters who are going crazy.
3. What was the hardest scene to write?
Chloe and Milo's first kiss. I'm the rare YA writer who hates writing kiss scenes. You can only kiss someone so many ways, you know?
4. Who would you say you are most like in AGOS?
It's pretty obvious to anyone who knows me that I'm a lot like Chloe - the calm, older sister who tries to keep everything together. I based her favorite band, Sebastian's Shadow, off of my favorite band Hawthorne Heights. But unlike her, I can't draw.
5. If you could hang out with one of the SAS boys for a day, who would you choose and why?
Noah Winters! I think he'd just be a lot of fun. He knows how to be serious when he has to be, but he also knows how to goof off and have fun. Sure, he has his diva moments, but I think he'd be the most likely to mesh with my personality.
6. Did you ever get starstruck over any of your characters while writing this?
Oh yesssss. Milo Grayson and I had some very intense moments. Writing through Chloe's point of view and going through some of her emotions with her, it was hard not to be starstruck over Milo.
7. If Spaceships Around Saturn was a real boyband in our real world, would you buy their music?
Most definitely! I'd blast them in my truck every morning on the way to work and dance in the driver's seat in the middle of downtown traffic while I'm sure the person in the next car is staring at me asking themselves WTF I'm doing. (I do this to One Direction most mornings.)
8. You write really epic sibling relationships. (I'll gladly take credit for that since I'm kind of like the most epic sibling ever. You're so lucky!) You also tend to put them in your books. Do you feel like more books should have sibling relationships in them?
Haha. You're so freaking hilarious. :p To answer the question at hand, though: I think it's something that's overlooked a lot in novels. Too many YA novels focus on only children because it's easier for a plot line. But most people I know have siblings. I have them, obviously. It's something that I naturally write because it's weird not to.
9. What song do you think sets the feel of American Girl On Saturn?
"Lightning in a Bottle" by The Summer Set
10. What do you hope readers will take from American Girl On Saturn?
I have three things. 1) I hope they laugh. This book is lighthearted and fun, and if Emery's dog line doesn't crack you up, then you lead a sad life, and I'll send you hugs. 2) I hope they enjoy at least one character. I hope they can relate to someone and enjoy spending time with them during their reading experience. And 3) I hope music lovers can relate in general. Even if they don't connect with the boyband craze, there are other musical elements that play a part in this book (Sebastian's Shadow, especially). Music is a universal language, so I hope anyone who reads it can take something away from it.
Nikki Godwin is a Young Adult author from the southern USA. She is a city girl who can't live without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, Hawthorne Heights, and candles from Bath & Body Works. When not writing, she's not-so-secretly internet-stalking her favorite bands. She is slightly obsessed with rock stars and surfers. She no longer hides her love for One Direction.
The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.
Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.
But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.
Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.
But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.
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