When asked if she might participate this year, she says, “I hope so! I haven’t been able to do it for the last couple of years it never seems to line up with my deadlines anymore. Cinder and four subsequent books began as NaNoWriMo projects, but the life of an author has made it more difficult for Meyer to time drafting to every November. In addition to fanfiction, Meyer is an alum of another online-centric writing community: National Novel Writing Month. One group costume that stands out in her memory is a quartet of women in ballgowns representing the albino wolf, peacock, and other animals in Winter’s menagerie on Luna: “It was this amalgamation of ballgowns and formalwear on Luna, but also the animals of the menagerie, and I just thought it was so clever.” And so early on I decided, ‘No, I want that to be for the fans I don’t think I should be involved in that side of it.’ But knowing that it exists brings me much, much joy.”Īnother way in which The Lunar Chronicles ’ heroines have made their way into the world has been through cosplay, which Meyer describes as “one of my greatest pleasures” to see at conventions. Despite her burning curiosity, she considered that “if Naoko Takeuchi, the creator of Sailor Moon, regularly went on and read Sailor Moon fanfiction, I think that that might have changed what I was writing and what I was putting out there.
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“It’s a little weird, honestly! But it’s wonderful, and I’m hugely honored to know there are so many people who have taken the characters and gone off and done their own things with them.”Įarly on, Meyer had to decide whether she would actually read the stories on and the Archive of Our Own (AO3). “That’s the fantasy,” Meyer says, “for there to be fanfic of your own work, because I know what love goes into creating fanfiction, and how fandoms can really rally around it.” And how must that feel for a former fanfiction writer?
Read more: Den of Geek Book Club Podcast Talks with Marissa Meyer “And in a way that there’s such wonderful justice to it, and really captures the same sorts of emotions that I was trying to put into my writing. “It’s unbelievable to think about these characters and this world that lived inside my head for so many years, and then to see other people putting their interpretation behind it,” she says. While most authors do not experience the opportunity to see their work adapted thusly, let alone three, Meyer says it feels “incredible,” though she hastens to add that there is a fourth lens: fan art! In addition to the aforementioned Wires and Nerve, there is also The Lunar Chronicles Coloring Book.
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That said, this is not the first time that the series has been illustrated. “I love what does with colors, and so when you see all four of them together, it just stands out so much. “They’re so beautiful and so vibrant,” Meyer says. While the series has long been celebrated for centering the stories of princesses of color - Cinder is Asian/Caucasian, while Winter is black - and for its representation of mental illness, now those women are actually on the covers in the (human and cyborg) flesh. It’s quite the departure from the original covers, each of which featured one key element from its respective book: Cinder’s mechanical leg (in place of Cinderella’s glass slipper) Scarlet’s (or Little Red Riding Hood’s) cape Cress’ Rapunzel-esque hair and Winter’s plague-laced apple. Read more: Marissa Meyer’s Renegades Trilogy is Riveting Superhero Fiction Winter and Jacin in a romantic clinch in her menagerie. Meyer describes seeing the same scenes suggested over and over, which made their way into the new designs: Wolf spiriting Scarlet away from danger.
To wit, part of the new covers process involved crowdsourcing favorite scenes from the active and enthusiastic fandom via Instagram. Now, a re-release of the original quartet with brand-new covers showcasing each of the key characters proves that the series is still relevant to readers today.
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