Wait, yes, this is a geeky site, but just stay where you are.

Rainbow Rowell writes love stories, and theyre amazing and geeky.

Basically, Rainbow Rowell writes characters youre going to identify with.

I just readLandlinethis week, and its wonderful.

Where did the idea for it come from?

I wish I had a good story about it.

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Its different from your previous two books, in that the characters are older.

Was that a conscious decision, to write about adults rather than teens or young adults?

It was not a conscious decision.

I just had an idea.

Thats how it works for me.

And no-one told me not to!

Eleanor And Parkhas a very open ending.

How often do people ask you about what happens after that ending?

Every day I wake up and there are five to ten tweets from people specifically asking me.

I feel like people think they want to know, but they dont really.

If you confirmed what they were

It would be a let-down!

It would be like, oh, I guess that makes sense.

Like, theyre dating, theyre gonna get married, theyre kissing.

They are, they are okay.

It was really good in some ways, but it made him miserable too.

I actually think they are true love.

Im not sure youre supposed to meet your great love at sixteen.

You cant cope with it.

In the book, Park tries to date somebody and its just empty and dead.

And if you were Eleanor, who would you date after Park?

Maybe they can get back together after a few years then.

Are you tempted to write a sequel?

He told me not to.

He must be kicking himself now.

He said to me, youre writing fanfiction of your own characters now.

Theyve written their own.

They can do that even if I write the sequel.

Plenty of people ignore the epilogue ofHarry Potter!

I think that thats unconventional for books and movies and TV maybe, but not real life.

In real life, thats exactly how we fall in love.

Its never happened to me.

Ive never walked into a room and been like that guy.

You think of Edward the vampire being the fantasy character, but Bellas a fantasy character too.

Shes the fantasy of every girl who thinks shes plain being secretly beautiful.

I dont write that way, but I dont necessarily think its wrong.

BothLandlineandEleanor And Parkhave important phone conversations in them.

Do you think talking on the phone is a skill weve lost?

I do think weve lost that, but weve gained a lot with the internet.

I feel like the internet has turned us all into letter writers.

People didnt write, because youd call.

Why would you write anything?

But now were all writers.

I would have felt so much less alone.

The first thing I did was go on aDawsons Creeksite!

My best friend was really intoStar Warsand that was it, she was the only one I knew.

I was never mistreated, I just felt like I didnt fit in.

I feel like fanfiction is a community.

Teenage girls are really intense, and that scares people.

It scares people how intense they get and its kind of scary when you are a teenage girl.

But you have so much energy and appetite for things as a teenager.

Your younger readers will be reading a story about adults.

Do you think theyll relate to the characters?

Not in the same way, but I think they will.

When I was a teenager, I was reading about adults.

My favourite author was John Irving.

Its not like somebody told me to read him, I just found his books and really loved them.

Thats so dumb and weird, why would you do that?

Both adults and teenagers readEleanor And Park.

It doesnt bother them at all.

Adults and teenagers just get a different read.

One read isnt more valid than the other, you know?

The movie rights toEleanor And Parkrecently got picked up.

Is there any news on the film adaptation?

The news is that I need to start writing the screenplay.

Why are you sitting here talking to me?

Go and do that!

Is that your next project?

I have to write it fast.

And I just finished the first draft of my next YA novel, which is a fantasy.

Rainbow Rowell, thank you very much!