![]() ![]() And every ten or so pages, you see an image. And what's happening around him, the classroom, the school, the background. ![]() How do I get them? How do I get my bookworms who love the novel format? How do I get cats who like the visual effect? How do I get the TikTok generation who needs multiple stimuli moving quick? How do I get multiple voices in the story where you get Miles’ internal dialogue, and you get the context of everything happening with him? So, the format, which is all of Miles’ language and conversation and internal dialogue is interior life happening in verse and then in prose. But then I thought to myself, ‘Man, here's an opportunity.’ If I'm thinking about how to cast the widest net for this kind of book then I want to figure out how do I hit every pocket of reader? How do I figure out how to get the comic book cat who's used to reading cells? Maybe they don't want to read a novel. And I think it should be purposeful and meaningful and thoughtful. I don't think every book belongs in verse. You dictate what the readers want.’ We had this argument that, well, you try to do it Because I think it's worth a shot. And we got readers who like a certain thing.’ And I'm like, ‘Look, you're the artist. They're like, ‘Man, you understand this is a different thing. ![]() “I was talking to some friends of mine, and I was arguing about how I feel like my folks who write fiction, like fantasy and sci fi, they’ve got the biggest imaginations, but they refuse to shake up the format. ON THE VERSE USED IN MILES MORALES SUSPENDED: Recently, Jason Reynolds sat down with host Angélique Roché on an all-new episode of the This Week in Marvel podcast to talk about his origins as an author, what first drew him to write Miles Morales: Spider-Man, and the unique verse/prose/illustrated format featured in Miles Morales Suspended. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds and acclaimed illustrator Zeke Peña comes the high-flying sequel to young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man! In Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel, follow the adventures of Miles Morales, and go inside the inner world and writings of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man. ![]()
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