Because it is, actually, true. Children that I signed picturebooks who now find them too young are now reading my novels, as if I made them specifically FOR them. And who is to say that I did not? Maybe the creative muse sometimes does take orders.
Most recently, I visited Charlotte, NC for the Novello Festival of Reading. It was great fun, but one of the highlights was catching up with a family that I had met during my first visit at Novello--some 4 years ago. The toddler whom I had signed picturebooks for was now a smart and pretty girl who reads my novels!
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And at my booksigning at the Toadstool Bookshop I met up with some other "old" fans.
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They were so old, that one mother sent me a photo of the first time we met.
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Isn't that neat? I guess I should start thinking about writing teenage YA. I think I could write about vampires............just joking!