Dear Bruce,

I am one of the "OG" readers of your Unicorn Chronicles. I was 9 yrs old when the first book came out in 1994 and I was immediately captivated, re-reading it many times in the years that followed. I've written in your guestbook before and was so excited when you announced you finally had the rights to re-publish the books (since I never got a chance to read the 4th book due to Scholastic never publishing in paperback and letting the hardback go out of print). Though I am 37 yrs old now, I was so enchanted by my first and subsequent visits to Luster, that over the last few decades I would once in a while check on the status of this series. So today, I happened to check on whether the final books had been published, and - hooray!! What a treat to discover book 7 was published just in December! Now I suppose I'll wait for a box set or something, but I'm just so happy to finally be able to own the full series, and to finally read the ending of the saga (books 5-7 I believe, in the new split).

I'm sure it's apparent how much this series has meant to me. Thank you Bruce, for persevering through all these years, all the challenges of finishing the series, re-arranging them, and re-publishing! It is so worth it!

Much love, from your longtime fan,
Lisa N

Lately, I've been having this weird urge to start reading some of the older stuff I either never finished, or have not read in a long time. Be it a Hoboken Chicken Emergency, talking dogs and cats discussing a vampire bunny, kids in a school called Wayside, or a mouse on a motorcycle--the list goes on.

But, it was one of those work nights where I was supposed to be up and early to work the next day (I had developed a habit where I seem to stay up super late to reclaim what a typical work day robs) when I remembered Space Brat again. Out of a case of "eh, what the heck" I dug that one out from the shelf, and despite it being 12-ish in the morning, I finished it in one sitting within the hour and thoroughly enjoyed it. Even though it was short--it sure felt like I spent a longer time going on that adventure with Blork and Lunk.

Unfortunately, the other four books appear to be sold out here--so looks like there will be a delay in my further adventures until I can get ahold of them. I don't care much if my current age exceeds the kid nature of these books. It can be a pocket adventure like this--and because of it, as corny as this sounds--I'm convinced the time machine has always existed in some non-physical manifestation. We just needed a steady stream of imagination to maintain it every now and then. Chuck the ol' inner child into the imaginary time machine furnace, and get it going again. The other book that I have not read, but intrigues me from a cover I saw of a kid going down the stairs with torch in hand with creatures facing him: Goblins in the Castle. Something draws me to the title, and it totally sounds like a fun read.

Hello Mr. Coville!
I've been such a huge fan since grade school. I remember reading your books and not wanting to put them down! Knowing we were in the same city was also a cool bonus (I currently live in Seoul, but was born and raised in Syracuse). I've been reading your books to my own kids now, and they love them just as much as I did back in the day. I used to purchase your books for my students as well. Reading your books was always a fun assignment. Just wanted to say hello and thank you for being such a big inspiration. Your books are one of the reasons I pursued teaching and writing as a career. Thank you!

Hi, Mr. Coville!

Back in the day (the 90s in this case) I read my copy of Into the Land of the Unicorns so much it eventually went to pieces. Never forgot the series and tracked down each of the new books as they came out to happily lose myself in Luster all over again. Glad to see that the reworked series includes ebooks so I can have my nostalgia reads in a less tangible but possibly more durable form. Can't replicate that Scholastic paper smell though.

You're one of the reasons I'm still into fantasy as a genre and always keep an eye out books with unicorns (or karkadann and qilin). I'm a bookseller now and every so often I field questions from teachers looking for your books to tempt their students into reading (or to read to them). Usually they read The Magic Shop books as kids and want to share the joy - Jennifer Murdley's Toad and Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher are the most frequently requested. The latter was also a book I read until the pages fell out and one of the reasons most of my childhood drawings were dragons.

Any plans to reprint Bruce Coville's Book of...Aliens, Ghosts, Magic, Monsters, Nightmares, Spine Tinglers, and their respective sequels? Thank Scholastic book fairs for all those being part of my childhood too. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and the various offshoots do well with kids today as do the reprints Goosebumps. I hit your stories and those at about the same age.

Hope this finds you well. Thanks for all the stories and keep being awesome!

Hi Brice,
I first discovered your work about 13 years through our local library. "The Unicorn Chronicles" is one of my favorite book series of my entire reading/listening life. So much so that I purchased the entire series on audiobook after listening through the library copies multiple times. I still regularly recommend it to readers of all ages (just mentioned it in a Facebook group this past week, actually) and listen to the whole set every year or two. Really excited to see a couple short stories on here that I haven't read, and I'm eager to read them.

Do you know if "The Last Hunt" was ever printed in hardback? I have "Into the Land of the Unicorns," "Song of the Wanderer," and "Dark Whispers" in hardcover and was hoping to round out my print collection with a hardback, but thus far I've only been able to track down paperbacks of "The Last Hunt."

Lastly, I wanted you to know that you've been an encouraging and inspiring influence on my own writing journey, and I look forward to reading more from you.