The start of the Stays Crunchy in Milk FAQ
APK | May 15, 2009 | 9:16 amWhat is Stays Crunchy in Milk?
It’s a novel written by Adam P. Knave and published by Creative Guy Publishing in August 2009.
What genre is it?
It isn’t, not really. I mean sure there are bits of fantasy in there I suppose, and action and adventure and humor … the thing is everyone who has read it has failed at nailing a genre to it. So we go with “Literature” and leave it at that. Which makes me feel odd, but that’s a different question.
What’s it about?
Three friends go looking for their missing fourth friend. At it’s core that is the plot. Three people go looking for a fourth. It’s also about everything from growing up to friendship to … oh hell I’ll let the editor (Lauren) answer this: It’s… it’s like The Wizard of Oz for vaguely jaded 20- to 30-somethings who’ve watched too many Saturday morning cartoons. It’s about friendship and self-discovery and love and failure and hope and how completely ridiculous 98% of the stuff we loved in the 1980s was, including but not limited to cartoon cereal mascots and My Little Ponies.
Wait why did you write a book starring what seem to be cartoon cereal mascots?
Because it made me laugh. Because, quite honestly, that was the story that sparked off in my head. It gives me a certain freedom.
So who are these three characters?
Wereberry the strawberry werewolf, Choco-Ra the chocolate mummy and T.C. (The Creature From the Fruit Lagoon.
What is everything based on? If I don’t know the 80s and I don’t get your references won’t I miss a lot of the book?
Not at all. It honestly doesn’t matter who is based on what to what extent. I took concepts and I boiled them down and re-imagined them. Mine are both the same and crucially different at the same time. You don’t need to get the references to enjoy the characters, or the story. We’ve done semi-extensive research into this, in fact, giving the book to people who have no clue about them and seeing if they enjoyed it. They did, and we were able to stop the electric shocks.
Really, the references aren’t the point. It isn’t a novel of “Lookit that!” at all. That’s just the world it takes place in. If I set a novel in Boston you won’t need to be intimate with Boston, either.
ASK ME OTHER THINGS ABOUT THE BOOK, because really? I could talk about it all day, and regale you with stories and … all sorts of things.
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Looks interesting. Maybe I’ll get it sometime. I hope it’s not too much like “Breakfast of the Gods”. That’d be disappointing.
It is very much not like Breakfast of the Gods.