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I'm so glad I found this book, and would love to tell the author: Thank you for the nightmares!

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Jenny Nettles was sad but not scary. Basilisk was good but not scary. None of the stories was scary. Both are beautifully written and mournful beyond doubt.

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Most are wierd and hard to understand. Get to Know Us. Amazon Web Services Goodreads Shopbop. Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies. Your characters in this book — Igor, Bwoonhiwda, and Bonecracker John — are unlike anything we might encounter in the real world, yet they are somehow familiar and instantly likable.

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I also like performance. So these characters in my books, they feel real to me. Jane Yolen and I have known each other for 37 years. We met when I was brand-new and she was well established.

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But as my career rose, we were continually readjusting our relationship so that we were working at equal levels. And we wrote Armageddon Summer together — which was a blast to do. Paula Danziger and I used to read our books aloud to each other. Writing them, it was like there were always three of us collaborating.

The challenge with having books behind you is keeping things fresh. I try to stay in the same vein, but each idea, each book should be fresh and new.

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In fact, it gets harder. The more you know, the more you want the books to do and be.


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You want to have each book be better than the one before. I know that a writing career, any career, is not an upward march to glory. But I am always trying to push to a new level. Which writers do you most admire?

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Terry Pratchett — who in his later works, was not only funny but deeply wise and humane. My wife and I were in the car on a road trip listening to the audio version of one of his books. I will never write anything this good. If readers could know and remember one thing about you or your stories, what would it be? I think one of the reasons my books work — even though they are these weird fantasy and science fiction stories — is that I am not afraid to show my heart.

I am not afraid of emotion.

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The adventure is there, but I want both the adventure resolution and the emotional resolution, too. Goblins on the Prowl by Bruce Coville. Diary of a Mad Brownie by Bruce Coville, illus. To subscribe, click here. Simply close and relaunch your preferred browser to log-in.