{"id":10862,"date":"2026-04-17T21:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:33:33","slug":"roberts-es-students-always-have-such-good-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/roberts-es-students-always-have-such-good-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts ES students always have such good questions!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was the 6th time media specialist extraordinaire Tiffanie Lifsey invited me to speak with her fifth grade students in Suwanee Georgia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a lot of budding writers in the audience and many questions focused on that. For example, what does my editing process look like before I send a manuscript to the publisher? How many times in all does a manuscript for a novel go through editing? I think they were shocked by the answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were also questions about the real people behind various characters, but this was the first time I was asked about how I researched for the character of Officer Schmidt, who made appearances in both Making Bombs and The War Below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of the classes at Roberts ES. I think there were 6 in all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I love this shot with me and Tiffanie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Today was the 6th time media specialist extraordinaire Tiffanie Lifsey invited me to speak with her fifth grade students in Suwanee Georgia! There were a lot of budding writers in the audience and many questions focused on that. For example, what does my editing process look like before I send a manuscript to the publisher? … Continue reading “Roberts ES students always have such good questions!”<\/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":[262,1052],"tags":[214,7,475,51],"class_list":["post-10862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","category-past-visits","tag-making-bombs-for-hitler","tag-ukrainian","tag-virtual-visits","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","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=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10863,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}