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Ms Haskins writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We loved having you join us for World Read Aloud Day at Cave Spring Middle School in Roanoke, VA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a great speaker!  The students (and adults) were enthralled. The kids who asked questions loved speaking with an actual published author, but specifically you! I have found that my middle schoolers are very interested in historical fiction.  They want to know personal accounts of what happened. You really connected with our group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did have some questions that didn’t get asked.  You mentioned that if I sent them, you would reply with answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question: If you could pick one of your books that describes your personality the best, which one would it be and why? (Laurel)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Probably Stolen Girl, because it’s set in my hometown of Brantford. I was married in the church that Nadia (Larissa) and her parents go to, and the mansion that terrifies her is one I mused over a lot when I was a kid. It was across the road from a warehouse that my father owned and at that time it was vacant and looked haunted. Also, the library that Nadia goes to is the one where I went when I was her age and even the books she takes out are ones that I took out as a kid. The superintendent that terrifies her is based on one who came to my school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Question: Where or how do you get your ideas for all your books? (Destiny)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I leave my mind and imagination open for stories. I ask a lot of questions. I listen to the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Question: Who is your favorite historical figure and why? (Rhett)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Roxolana. She lived in the 1500s in what’s now Ukraine. She was captured on a slave raid and sold to into the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). She ended up marrying the sultan and co-ruling. She also helped to end the slave raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Question: Why do you like writing historical fiction? (Isaiah)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Because what we forget we are bound to repeat. There is so much in history that has been erased, distorted, forgotten. I love finding quiet heroes and shedding light on what they lived through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Ms Haskins writes: We loved having you join us for World Read Aloud Day at Cave Spring Middle School in Roanoke, VA.   What a great speaker!  The students (and adults) were enthralled. The kids who asked questions loved speaking with an actual published author, but specifically you! I have found that my middle schoolers … Continue reading “Questions and answers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,262],"tags":[430,1028,530,703],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-news-stories","tag-history","tag-questions","tag-wrad","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}