THANK YOU for amazing stories

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for being you. Thank you for the amazing stories you shared with the world. I’m especially fond of the Boys Against Girls Series. I got hooked on them almost 2 decades ago (yikes, how time flies)!!! Now that my youngest brother is in that preteen/teen phase, I suggested that he check them out in the library when my older brother can drive him there (we live in different cities). I remember I used to walk to the library just to check out the next book in the series or whatever remaining book there was that I haven’t read…I devoured them. Alas, times are a bit different now and we see less kids strolling down the streets to pay their neighborhood library a visit. Well, thank you for writing. May God bless you and your family with inner peace, joy, and health!!!!

It was so kind of you to write!  Those boys/versus/girls books were so much fun to write.  I’ll tell you where I got the idea:  one of my publishers asked if I would start a new series, and I just wasn’t sure I wanted to do that. There were so many single stories I wanted to write.  I told her I would think about it but I’d have to come up with some universal theme that would be appealing to all children.  Then I was speaking at school where kids were coming from two different entrances, several different classes .  They were noisy, as kids will be, and it didn’t bother me at all.  But it bothered one of the teachers and he yelled, “If you don’t be quiet, I’m going to seat you boy-girl-boy-girl….”   And instantly the large room became absolutely quiet.  I said to myself, there’s my theme.  That wonderful antagonism between boys and girls at a certain age.  And after that it was so easy, and so much fun, to think up ways they could get even with each other.