“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or about their career as a whole. Our guest today is bestselling author Veronica Wolff, here to celebrate the release of her new book Isle of Night (which Thea will be reviewing later today), the first book in a new UF series for Young Adults. Please give it up for Veronica! It all started with a catsuit. Not on me, of course. My ten-foot pole isn’t quite long enough to touch that. No, the seeds of a smart, lethal heroine were planted years ago, with reruns of The Avengers and Emma Peel rocking her black catsuit, kitten-heel boots, and ladies’ pistol. Really, I could stop there. But you probably want more of an answer than that, huh? Whenever I’m asked what my influences are, I always feel I should say something dreadfully literary. That my inspiration is found in the works of Anton Chekhov, early Cubist sculpture, […]