Author Eoin Colfer Dishes on Success of his Artemis Fowl Series

Irish Times

Writers of adult fiction have the luxury of being able to write for themselves, or at least for people like them. But children's authors can only succeed by become skillful ventriloquists for their younger selves. How to intuit that you've given this tech-savvy leprechaun a voice that a 12-year-old boy will find convincing? Would a pre-pubescent criminal mastermind really think this?

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