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Dear Bruce Coville,
Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher is really creative. You are a great writer and I want to be just like you. If your books are still out when I'm older I will read them to my children!!! Did you ever have an experience like Jeremy Thatcher? When did you start your writing career? Your best fan, Rae Aclin
Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher is really creative. You are a great writer and I want to be just like you. If your books are still out when I'm older I will read them to my children!!! Did you ever have an experience like Jeremy Thatcher? When did you start your writing career? Your best fan, Rae Aclin
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Rae -
Thanks for this message. I'm really glad to know that you think so highly of JEREMY THATCHER.
Sadly, I never had an experience like Jeremy. But here is the seed of things. When I was a kid I always thought that if I walked down the right side street in the city (I lived out in the country - the nearest city was Syracuse, where I now live) I could find the shop that sold real magic. I never found it, so when I grew up I gave myself the shop that I always wanted to find by writing stories about it. That's one of the great things about writing. You can shape the world you write about to be the way you think the world should be!
I started writing seriously for publication when I was 17, but did not sell my first book until I was 27. The secret of my success is bone-headed obstinance!
your friend,
Bruce Coville
Thanks for this message. I'm really glad to know that you think so highly of JEREMY THATCHER.
Sadly, I never had an experience like Jeremy. But here is the seed of things. When I was a kid I always thought that if I walked down the right side street in the city (I lived out in the country - the nearest city was Syracuse, where I now live) I could find the shop that sold real magic. I never found it, so when I grew up I gave myself the shop that I always wanted to find by writing stories about it. That's one of the great things about writing. You can shape the world you write about to be the way you think the world should be!
I started writing seriously for publication when I was 17, but did not sell my first book until I was 27. The secret of my success is bone-headed obstinance!
your friend,
Bruce Coville