With the release of her second novel in the trilogy, Trickster Drift, Robinson has some time to think about the character who has overtaken her life the past few years. “Now that I have more freedom, it’s necessary to have a routine, which is frustrating because I don’t need to be up that early.” The routine is just more so I don’t go on Facebook the siren call of ‘research,’” she laughs. I wasn’t like that before I could write eighteen hours a day in a hotel room, on a plane. I had my desk, my computer, my coffee mug-it all had to be in the same place. “I was very conscious that I only had an hour. “I had a lot of personal and professional obligations, so the only time I had to write was between four and five in the morning,” she says over the phone from her hotel room in Granville Island. While writing her Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster, she’d set her alarm for 3:50 a.m. Eden Robinson is loving these book tour days she can sleep in for once.
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