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hi again! Thanks for your response. Are you planning on coming to all of The Dragonslayer shows or one for each cast?
Quick question, how should i approach Willie? She is not mean and I dont want to look too stubborn...any ideas? Loooking forward to seeing you,
Cami
Quick question, how should i approach Willie? She is not mean and I dont want to look too stubborn...any ideas? Loooking forward to seeing you,
Cami
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Cami -
I'll be coming to as many performances as I can - definitely at least one from each cast!
As to Willie, she is not at all mean. But she is definitely stubborn. Mostly she's eager to experience life, continues to learn as she goes on her adventure, and loves being out in the world!
BC
I'll be coming to as many performances as I can - definitely at least one from each cast!
As to Willie, she is not at all mean. But she is definitely stubborn. Mostly she's eager to experience life, continues to learn as she goes on her adventure, and loves being out in the world!
BC
Dear Bruce Coville,
I wanted to thank you for your unicorn chronicles series though I've only read the first two. I found the second one and read it then looked for the first to read and only found your site and the other two. My question I would love answered is the cover art for my copies are different then the current cover art, why did it change? I would like to say I do love the old cover art. =)
I wanted to thank you for your unicorn chronicles series though I've only read the first two. I found the second one and read it then looked for the first to read and only found your site and the other two. My question I would love answered is the cover art for my copies are different then the current cover art, why did it change? I would like to say I do love the old cover art. =)
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Jonathan -
Thanks for this message. I'm thrilled and delighted that you think so highly of the Unicorn Chronicles.
As to the covers: I'm not sure which ones you have. The first book has had three covers, the second book two covers, Books 3 and 4 only 1 each. The main reason for this is my own long lapses in finishing each installment. So much time passed between Book 1 and Book 2 that the publisher (Scholastic) commissioned a new set of covers. The same happened with the gap between books 2 and 3. (Books 3 and 4 were much closer together.)
All best
BC
Thanks for this message. I'm thrilled and delighted that you think so highly of the Unicorn Chronicles.
As to the covers: I'm not sure which ones you have. The first book has had three covers, the second book two covers, Books 3 and 4 only 1 each. The main reason for this is my own long lapses in finishing each installment. So much time passed between Book 1 and Book 2 that the publisher (Scholastic) commissioned a new set of covers. The same happened with the gap between books 2 and 3. (Books 3 and 4 were much closer together.)
All best
BC
Hi Mr. Coville,
Has anyone of your family members ever inspired your stories? What is the most challenging step of the writing process? Have you ever used math or science or art or music that you learned at school ever been used in your story? What is your favorite book you have written? Have you ever wanted to be in your book? Do you ever wish you were jeremy in jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher?
Sincerley,
Alyssa
Has anyone of your family members ever inspired your stories? What is the most challenging step of the writing process? Have you ever used math or science or art or music that you learned at school ever been used in your story? What is your favorite book you have written? Have you ever wanted to be in your book? Do you ever wish you were jeremy in jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher?
Sincerley,
Alyssa
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Alyssa -
Oops! You've surpassed the "questions per message" limit! ;>
A few answers: My family members have not inspired my stories as such, but I have used them as characters in some of the stories. My daughter, in particular, is the model for both Nina Tanleven in the ghost series, and Cara Diana Hunter in The Unicorn Chronicles.
As for myself, I have appeared in one of the books, since Rod Allbright of "Aliens Ate My Homework" is totally and completely based on me as a kid.
I have never wished I was Jeremy, but I have definitely wished I could hatch a dragon!
BC
Oops! You've surpassed the "questions per message" limit! ;>
A few answers: My family members have not inspired my stories as such, but I have used them as characters in some of the stories. My daughter, in particular, is the model for both Nina Tanleven in the ghost series, and Cara Diana Hunter in The Unicorn Chronicles.
As for myself, I have appeared in one of the books, since Rod Allbright of "Aliens Ate My Homework" is totally and completely based on me as a kid.
I have never wished I was Jeremy, but I have definitely wished I could hatch a dragon!
BC
I wanted to thank you for all your wonderful books. I Was child who slipped though the cracks and didn't know how to read until 6th grade when took home one of your books and became hooked on reading.
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Sherri -
Many thanks for this message. I don't think there's anything that thrills me more than knowing that one of my books turned someone on to reading!
BC
Many thanks for this message. I don't think there's anything that thrills me more than knowing that one of my books turned someone on to reading!
BC
Mr. Bruce Coville:
I've been a long-time fan of your Unicorn Chronicles and Magic Shop books, but I have one question. What are you working on now? 🙂 I haven't heard about anything new since The Last Hunt came out.
I've been a long-time fan of your Unicorn Chronicles and Magic Shop books, but I have one question. What are you working on now? 🙂 I haven't heard about anything new since The Last Hunt came out.
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Kathryn -
Thanks for the kind words.
I've published two books since The Last Hunt. The first was Always October a funny/scary story about two kids, a baby monster, and a trip to the world where monsters come from. The second was very unusual for me, a collaboration with my friend and fellow writer Liz Levy called Amber Brown is Tickled Pink. This is a realistic novel that continues a series begun by our dear friend Paula Danziger, who died about 9 years ago. We have finished a second Amber book, and have started work on a third. They are very different books from my other work, but Liz and I both loved Paula very much, and we feel honored to have a chance to carry on her work.
BC
Thanks for the kind words.
I've published two books since The Last Hunt. The first was Always October a funny/scary story about two kids, a baby monster, and a trip to the world where monsters come from. The second was very unusual for me, a collaboration with my friend and fellow writer Liz Levy called Amber Brown is Tickled Pink. This is a realistic novel that continues a series begun by our dear friend Paula Danziger, who died about 9 years ago. We have finished a second Amber book, and have started work on a third. They are very different books from my other work, but Liz and I both loved Paula very much, and we feel honored to have a chance to carry on her work.
BC
Dear Bruce Coville,
Guess what?!?!?
It's My birthday tommorow!!!! I am so excited! When is your birthday? Oh yeah, sorry for all those questions in my first message!
Sincerely, Aman
Guess what?!?!?
It's My birthday tommorow!!!! I am so excited! When is your birthday? Oh yeah, sorry for all those questions in my first message!
Sincerely, Aman
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Aman -
I hope you had a wonderful birthday! My own birthday is about two months away, in the middle of May.
BC
I hope you had a wonderful birthday! My own birthday is about two months away, in the middle of May.
BC
Dear Mr. Coville,
Sadly, my sister will never let me read to her. She is always doing other stuff. And she doesn't care about books. All my favorite books my class read last year i loved, but she is reading them now and says they are boring.I guess she is not much of a reading person.
Your friend,
Victoria
Sadly, my sister will never let me read to her. She is always doing other stuff. And she doesn't care about books. All my favorite books my class read last year i loved, but she is reading them now and says they are boring.I guess she is not much of a reading person.
Your friend,
Victoria
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Victoria -
Ah, well . . . each person has his or her own interests and likes. I guess your sister is off on a track of her own. Sorry I don't have any other advice for you - though I do feel about sorry for your sister for all the wonderful stories that she is missing!
BC
Ah, well . . . each person has his or her own interests and likes. I guess your sister is off on a track of her own. Sorry I don't have any other advice for you - though I do feel about sorry for your sister for all the wonderful stories that she is missing!
BC
I finally read Spirits and Spells today. I have been wanting to read it for years. It was really good! I read Amulet of Doom and Eyes of the Tarot last year. I liked them too. I have the whole series. I now own 13 of your books.
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Chrissy -
I'm delighted that you liked Spirits and Spells. It's one of my daughter's personal favorites out of all my books. I think of Amulet of Doom as my "lost masterpiece." I love that book, but because it was a paperback original in a series that was tapering off, it never got much attention.
Thanks for checking in!
BC
I'm delighted that you liked Spirits and Spells. It's one of my daughter's personal favorites out of all my books. I think of Amulet of Doom as my "lost masterpiece." I love that book, but because it was a paperback original in a series that was tapering off, it never got much attention.
Thanks for checking in!
BC
Dear Mr. Coville,
I signed this guestbook eons ago when I was in middle school, in 2006. When I was twelve, and in seventh grade, my dad was battling cancer for the first time. Through The Unicorn Chronicles, I was able to escape the pain I was experiencing. After I read your books, I knew that I wanted to be like you, an author, with the ability to create a story that helped other people, of any age, in any way possible. You were the inspiration that started it all for me, Mr. Coville. Ever since I was twelve (and I just turned twenty), I have written countless of stories, of where I can see similarities from my first one to certain things in Cara's journey. Writing and reading have been two major coping skills for a lot of things I have been through since I was twelve, including my dad's death which occurred last year. I wrote you a letter a long time ago as well, which you replied to, and I remember being so ecstatic about your response. I don't know where it is anymore, but I know that letter is rumpled and torn from being re-read so many times. Thanks to you, Mr. Coville, your books, and your response to me when I was younger, I am now pursuing my dreams of being a writer. I'm attending Full Sail University in Florida, pursuing the Creative Writing for Entertainment degree. I talked about you in my class yesterday, actually, and about at which point in our lives did we realize what we wanted to do with them. Bruce Coville, you are a man of words that hold such incredible magic within them, and I hope to give the gift you unknowingly gave me to another person in the future.
Best regards,
Ashley
I signed this guestbook eons ago when I was in middle school, in 2006. When I was twelve, and in seventh grade, my dad was battling cancer for the first time. Through The Unicorn Chronicles, I was able to escape the pain I was experiencing. After I read your books, I knew that I wanted to be like you, an author, with the ability to create a story that helped other people, of any age, in any way possible. You were the inspiration that started it all for me, Mr. Coville. Ever since I was twelve (and I just turned twenty), I have written countless of stories, of where I can see similarities from my first one to certain things in Cara's journey. Writing and reading have been two major coping skills for a lot of things I have been through since I was twelve, including my dad's death which occurred last year. I wrote you a letter a long time ago as well, which you replied to, and I remember being so ecstatic about your response. I don't know where it is anymore, but I know that letter is rumpled and torn from being re-read so many times. Thanks to you, Mr. Coville, your books, and your response to me when I was younger, I am now pursuing my dreams of being a writer. I'm attending Full Sail University in Florida, pursuing the Creative Writing for Entertainment degree. I talked about you in my class yesterday, actually, and about at which point in our lives did we realize what we wanted to do with them. Bruce Coville, you are a man of words that hold such incredible magic within them, and I hope to give the gift you unknowingly gave me to another person in the future.
Best regards,
Ashley
Reply by Bruce Coville
Dear Ashley -
I am delighted and humbled by this lovely message. It means a great deal to me to know that my stories, my messages to you, have had such a profound impact. What more can a writer (and former teacher) ask for?
I'm terribly sorry to hear about your loss of your dad. My own father is entering the final stages of his life right now, having lived far longer than he ever expected to, so I am very aware of all that goes with the impending death of a parent.
On the other hand, it is exciting to read your plans for your writing career, and I truly wish you the best of luck with it. May your words take you on a joyful journey!
All best,
BC
I am delighted and humbled by this lovely message. It means a great deal to me to know that my stories, my messages to you, have had such a profound impact. What more can a writer (and former teacher) ask for?
I'm terribly sorry to hear about your loss of your dad. My own father is entering the final stages of his life right now, having lived far longer than he ever expected to, so I am very aware of all that goes with the impending death of a parent.
On the other hand, it is exciting to read your plans for your writing career, and I truly wish you the best of luck with it. May your words take you on a joyful journey!
All best,
BC
Dear Mr. Coville,
My sister is about 8 years old.
My sister is about 8 years old.
Reply by Bruce Coville
Hi, Victoria -
Then your sister is not old enough to know whether you can become a writer or not!
As to getting her interested in reading - is it possible for you to read to her? The more stories that people hear, the more apt they are to become interested in reading.
BC
Then your sister is not old enough to know whether you can become a writer or not!
As to getting her interested in reading - is it possible for you to read to her? The more stories that people hear, the more apt they are to become interested in reading.
BC