Definitely I'm going to take a few years away from "Artemis." I'm not going to stop writing. Is that still true?Īt the moment, I'm undecided. You've said you may take off a few years. The sixth "Artemis Fowl" title comes out this July. Other people can't sit around thinking what would happen if my shoe turned into an elephant.
That's the nice thing about being a writer. But in my imagination, there were pirates trying to take over. My daughter told me about this guy who in 1956 bought the islands and declared himself the prince. If someone was on that island and they needed to get off, how could they get off? It has to be a way that hasn't been done before in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Escape from Alcatraz." The only thing I could think of was they could fly off. I always knew I wanted to set a book on the Saltee Islands because they're very close to where I live, and they really look like something out of a 1940s, 1950s swashbuckling movie. To find that simple idea takes a long time. Since I was about 12, I've wanted to write something like this. How long have you been thinking about creating this kind of book? And you've said we should imagine "Zorro" crossed with the "Three Musketeers," thrown in with "The Invisible Man," to come up with the idea for the kind of story you were trying to create. Wells) with your love of superheroes who used their brainpower. "Airman" combines your love of adventure stories like "Treasure Island" and "Robin Hood" with your love of old sci-fi (Jules Vern and H. I just worked a lot harder on it, and I tried to rein in my natural scatological humor. It's a silent E at the beginning, the old Irish spelling.
NEWSWEEK: OK, how do you pronounce your name?Įoin Colfer: It's just Owen.
Colfer talks with NEWSWEEK's Karen Springen about "Artemis Fowl" and "Airman," Colfer's personal favorite book so far. Meanwhile, this month Hyperion Books for Children (owned by Disney) comes out with Colfer's latest offering, "Airman," about a boy who's wrongly imprisoned-and builds a flying machine to escape. The five books in the Artemis Fowl series have sold 8 million copies in the United States alone, and book six comes out in July. With the publication of the kid-lit hit "Artemis Fowl" in 2001, Irishman Eoin Colfer morphed from school teacher to full-time author.
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