The short answer is that I love Rose as much as any character I've written about. Gee, this is all true, but awfully writerly. For Rose herself, the dementia is a way of breaking down the barriers to understanding, so that she can achieve a sense of completion, integration, one-ness. As far as she and the reader are concerned, these long-ago events are happening now. For the author, it's a way to reveal her past with the immediacy and excitement of the present. Richard: Rose's dementia is central to her character, but it does not define her. What drew you to this character, and why did you choose to examine her life from the perspective of mental illness? Trapped in her own confusion, bound to a hospital bed, Rose engages in some serious sorting out with God. Sometimes Rose is remembering her youth in Canada in the 1920s, and other times she's having problems remembering yesterday or even acknowledging the face of her worried daughter. Rose, living with senile dementia, slips in and out of lucidity. I hope that you enjoy getting to know him better.īrenda: Mystical Rose is a journey into the mind of an elderly woman in the last hours of her long life. We feature his dark and serious tale of fantasy computer gaming and an emotionally damaged family in this month's Mythic Passages. Many online conversations later, Richard graciously agreed to a Q&A session accompanying the inclusion of his short story, Questcon Quest. Instead, I picked up Mystical Rose for a nightcap chapter. Saturday night of the conference, bone weary and dragging my tired self back to my hotel room, I should have gone straight to sleep. Crazy busy as it was then, I tossed the book in my suitcase when it came time to head for the Hyatt. In it was a slender copy of Richard Scrimger's recent novel Mystical Rose, a token of thanks from the author for arranging his attendance at the conference. Right before Mythic Journeys '06, a small package landed on my desk. His latest YA novel, From Charlie's Point of View is told from the perspective of its blind young hero.
Richard is also the author of two adult novels, Crosstown and Mystical Rose, and a new book for young children, Princess Bun Bun. The Norbert series, including A Nose for Adventure and the latest installment Noses Are Red, has taken children's literature by storm. It was the birth of a series of delightful children's books featuring the affable alien Norbert and his peculiar habit of taking up residence in the noses of children whose lives need a turn for the better.
Richard Scrimger, the award-winning Canadian Children's and Young Adult's author, won a Mr.Christie's Book Award in 1999 for Nose from Jupiter.
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