“Sadie is somebody who wants to be good at a thing more than she wants to be nice. As Sadie sees it, lovers in this life are common. Sam and Sadie, who meet as kids in a hospital gaming room in 1987 and grow up to become superstar video game designers, are the most important people in each other’s lives. The last thing she wanted to write was yet another book that ends with two characters walking down the aisle and buying a house together, she says, but it’s still a love story. It’s not a “will they or won’t they” story, author Gabrielle Zevin has been telling people at writers’ events all over the world on her year-long promotional tour, which whistle-stops through Australia and New Zealand this month. That’s not a spoiler, so don’t go hating on me if you haven’t yet read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a book so hot Paramount Pictures bought the rights for US$2 million in a bidding war before it was even published. Joanna Wane talks to the author in Los Angeles before her first visit to Auckland. One of the book world’s hottest properties, Gabrielle Zevin is a game changer in more ways than one.
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