How do you poignantly describe the intensity of this experience without making it seem clichéd? You brilliantly describe how expansive and passionate first love can feel. In Delirium, love is a contagious disease and many of the passages transport readers back to feelings about their own first love. NR: Your latest book in your Dystopian trilogy, Pandemonium is a follow-up to your literary sensation Delirium. Lauren Oliver: Eep! That is kind of an awkward question to answer, as I don’t necessarily think of myself as a “huge success.” I’m not sure I thought too much about the future when I contributed to Crush I try to focus on the process, not the outcome. Did you have any inkling at the time what a huge success you were about to become? You wrote a stunning piece called “Three Little Words” although I don’t think this title ever quite lived up to your writing. I first met you when I asked you to contribute an essay about first love to my anthology Crush. Nicki Richesin: Thank you so much for chatting with TCBR. Check out tour dates in your area to meet Lauren and buy your copy of Pandemonium before all the copies fly off the shelves. She is currently on tour to promote Pandemonium. Not one to rest on her laurels, Lauren also wrote a brilliant middle grade novel Liesl & Po. She has most recently published Pandemonium, the second installment in her Dystopian trilogy. Lauren quickly followed the triumph of her break-out novel Before I Fall with another YA sensation Delirium. She’s been writing stories since she was a five-year-old and landed her first book deal at age 25.

Lauren Oliver is enormously talented yet such a humble and kind person. By Nicki Richesin, The Children’s Book Review

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