I do like technology but I’m not sure I’m actually an early adopter. Are you an early adopter of tech yourself, or do you do a lot of research to dream up all these amazing gadgets? Which usually have something to do with all the space-age technology in the Fowl universe. I will spend days making the right acronym. I have a file for good character names and I add to it all the time. I might have had Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye’s name for 10 years waiting for the right character to give it to. Finding not just the name but the right sound. I think it goes back to Charles Dickens, thinking the name you gave someone was really important. Such as your villain: Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye. Well, now that you bring her up, something you have in common with Rowling is that you are both very good at coming up with names. Neil Gaiman is already doing that pretty well, and Rick Riordan adds mythology, and J.K. I mean, there are plenty of writers who combine fantasy with something else. When Artemis first came out, the combination of lore and science fiction plus fantasy, I presumed hundreds of people had done that before but I have become known for that and it’s a nice place to be, to straddle those worlds. I think I accidentally happened onto this. The story features fairies and trolls and you have a Dublin estate where two kids can be left alone because they are guarded by NANNI (NanoArtificialNeuralNetworkIntelligence system), a supercomputer. The Fowl Twins thoroughly combines Irish folklore and science fiction. Usually, I’m urging them to read my books but this one I’m trying to sneak past them. Of course, I have taken the differences in their personalities to the extreme and I’m hoping they won’t hold it against me. One is blonde and he’s wild, and the other is dark and serious. Well, I haven’t told them yet but they are definitely the inspiration for the twins. Your new book is dedicated to your two sons, Finn and Seán, who you write are “neither twins nor fowl.” Are they flattered?
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