Completely fake conversations between Applegrant and their editor/marketing department

[tobiahawk.livejournal.com]

Given a lot of the darker elements in the books, I sometimes crack myself up imagining conversations between Applegrant and their marketing/editing department (This obviously just for fun, not reflective of reality, long live Scholastic for bringing us this awesome series). For example:

-Applegrant: "...And then the teenager snaps and starts systematically hunting down and murdering the main characters in cold blood. Oh, and he kills someone and throws his body down an elevator shaft in order to steal his identity."

E/MD: "You know who this book would be good for?  Eight year-olds!"

-Applegrant: "So, the book starts in an alternate universe where all the main characters are either dead/imprisoned or facists and their country is leading a racist genocidal war. We play this totally straight for like 20 pages."

Editor: "There's no sex, right?"

Applegrant: "No."

Editor: "Okay, good."

-Applegrant: "...and then the main character is tortured with alternating pleasure and pain and relives his emotional abusive childhood as a result, forcing him to soil himself and almost go insane. And the person torturing him is a deranged, captive teenage girl who reminds him of his girlfriend."

Editor: "There's no teen drinking here, right? If there is, we need a PSA somewhere about the dangers of teen drinking,.."

Have fun! :)

Comments

[ferahgo.livejournal.com]

Made me lol. Reminds me of describing the series to my boyfriend a while ago, in hopes of getting him to read it (poor thing never did when he was a kid, but I was hoping he'd still like them in his mid-20s). I was describing some of the especially sick and dark aspects of the story and he was like "...And this is for kids, really?"

[felinephoenix.livejournal.com]

I was talking to some friends about Animorphs today. They had the exact same reaction.