{"id":4563,"date":"2018-02-15T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:57:01","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-jen-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4563","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Jen Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2018\/02\/Jen Wang. Ye Rin Mok_current-use.JPG\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">For a while, I\u2019d wanted to write a story about a character whose super power was making clothes that transformed the wearer. I couldn\u2019t think of a premise that fit until I was watching <\/em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<em> one day, and suddenly everything clicked. I\u2019ve also wanted to do something fun, like a Disney princess movie but with more queer themes attached, and everything fell in line perfectly from there.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jenwang.net\/\">Jen Wang<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her new graphic novel, <em>The Prince and the Dressmaker<\/em> (First Second, February 2018). <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/all-dressed-jen-wang\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I&#8217;ll follow up here at 7-Imp with a bit more art from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Jen Wang taken by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/yerinmok.com\/\">Ye Rin Mok<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For a while, I\u2019d wanted to write a story about a character whose super power was making clothes that transformed the wearer. I couldn\u2019t think of a premise that fit until I was watching RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race one day, and suddenly everything clicked. I\u2019ve also wanted to do something fun, like a Disney princess movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}