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Shannon Hale always wished for superhero books to read -- not comic books, but full-length novels -- when she was growing up. Now the Utah author has written her own. "Dangerous," published earlier this month, is like a superhero comic in young-adult novel form. The plot rockets along at a breakneck pace as Maisie Danger Brown enters an astronaut boot camp that is nothing at all like she expected. Along the way, she encounters teenage angst, romance, suspense and extended sequences of cartoon violence. There are also space aliens. And zombies.
Hale answered questions via email before embarking on the "Dangerous" book tour, which includes a stop in West Jordan on Tuesday, March 11.
If I'm not mistaken, "Dangerous" has had the longest gestation of your books so far. Do you feel a special attachment to it as a result?
Yes, I feel like an elephant mama, waddling around gestating this baby since 2005 or so. Do not mess with an elephant mama or you get the tusks! Or something. Truthfully, I'm attached to all my books (and children!) but I am extremely proud of "Dangerous" after all the years and labor. It is what I hoped it would be.
What kind of parent names...