With the commercial success of The Passage, Cronin was able to quit his teaching jobs and dedicate himself to writing full-time. It also received rave reviews from The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, with Mark Medley of the National Post describing The Passage as “one of the creepiest books of 2010.” The novel debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained there for the next several weeks. Published on Jby Ballantine Books, The Passage was an instant success.
“That way, I had three or four days a week when I could focus on the writing.” “I had to work around the schedule and try to have a certain number of days that were clear of other commitments and then have days that were pure teaching from beginning to end,” he told January Magazine. During those days, he wrote whenever he had the chance. At the time of working on The Passage, the author was still the English professor at Rice University, as well as teaching at a couple of low-residency graduate programs. The story that became The Passage had begun to fill my head, to breathe and walk and talk – to be populated, as someone once said, by ‘warm new beings’ I actually believed in.”Īnd so, Cronin began to write the book. “And not just one book: saving the world seemed like the kind of undertaking that would take three books to accomplish. “As the weeks went by, I began to think this story actually could be a book, and that it was actually a better book, a much better book, than the one I was actually supposed to be writing,” he revealed in a 2016 interview. Iris, who was the inspiration for the main character, Amy, insisted on it.Īt first, though Cronin very much enjoyed these jogging sessions with his daughter, he had no intention of actually writing the book. With Iris pedalling her bicycle right beside him, the two of them bounced ideas back-and-forth about the story, centred around the premise of a girl saving the world. Justin Cronin was going for a series of long jogs in 2006 with his 8-year old daughter, Iris, when he started to come up with the idea for The Passage, the first instalment of his highly successful vampire trilogy.
Subscribe to our newsletter so you don’t miss out! Justin Cronin’s Advice for Writers with Day Jobs and Children | Chicago Review of BooksĮach week, we publish a new daily writing routine from a famous author. To write a novel is to finish one, not start one. Until you get to the end, you don’t have anything. But if you write 1,000 words a day, in 100 days you’ll have a novel. Whether it’s 1,000 words a day, 500 words a day, 250 if that’s the time you have. Justin Cronin is an American author, best-known for his best-selling vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve and City of Mirrors.
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