[Sylvia]

Hello,

I am doing an author study on you for my Teaching English to Middle Years university course. My prof is super picky and will want to know the names of your parents, but although I know your mom's name is Bernice because she co-authored the Jeremy Bloom books with you, I can't find info about your father's name anywhere on the interwebs... could you please help a girl out?

I was also hoping to do a fascinating fact about how you wrote that series with your mom and wanted to talk a little bit about how that experience was for you (and for her). I thought I had located an article about it at one point, but now I can't find it again. Could you tell me a little bit about that, please?

Thank you in advance. If you feel these questions are too personal, please feel free to ignore them. I can then tell my prof that there was a perfectly good reason why I couldn't provide that info for him!

Hi, Sylvia,

I'm honored! 

Dad is Charles Ksaac. He is a CPA.

I assume your "series" is the 2 D- Poems books. We originally decided to try our hand at "poems" because of Shel Silverstein's success at it. We didn't measure up to him, but we did pretty well, I think. Actually, the poet was Mom, who could be counted on to write some doggerel for every occasion -- New Years Eve parties, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. I was a novice at it, but I'm pretty proud of the two books anyway. I think my Mother is too.

Hope that saves you from having to make up excuses.  Regards,                    ---Gordon Korman--- 

Oops, Sylvia. That's Charles ISAAC.                                        --GK--

[Sylvia]

Perfect! Thanks so much!

I may just have to change my "fascinating fact" to the reflect that you are awesome enough to take time, daily, to answer fan questions. I think it is extremely lovely of you to reply to all your fans. Hopefully it doesn't detract significantly from your writing time. I want to be able to keep reading your new books to a whole new generation of readers in my future classroom!

[Darren]

Sylvia,

There's a tiny bit more here where I had asked Gord about the Jeremy Bloom books: http://gordonkorman.com/forum?t=23493

And you are so right about how great Gord is in taking the time and energy to accommodate and answer questions from his readers/fans.

Awwwwww ...                                                                                                                                ---GK---

[Victoria]

Hey, I\'m Victoria and I\'m in 7th grade,I have a question! My question is the story based on a real life person? Also is there a movie about Restart? Because I will be honored to watch the movie,the first question is from my friend Zips,by any chance can u maybe make a part 2 with Restart? But its fine if you won\'t, because I love how Chase changed during the story,how he was a jerk & a bully,then he turned into a helpful,kind person. I\'m really interested in your  books, i\'m actually making a book myself! If you wanna hear about my book so far,then i\'ll tell you! This is my first time messaging an author,ill message u another time if I have questions again! -Victoria 

[Gordon Korman]

Hi, Victoria,

Thanks for posting.

Your questions: RESTART is 100% fiction, which means I made it all up, even the characters. There is no RESTART movie -- YET! There is a film company that bought the rights to the book, but we don't know if they'll turn it into a movie or not. And I haven't planned a sequel to RESTART, but I wouldn't rule it out. Would you accept an indefinite maybe???

Good luck with your own writing, Victoria!                              -----Gordon Korman-----

[Victoria]

HIII thanks for responding,when I saw u responding to me I freaked out,and  right now im having lunch! How ur day been? When im in highschool I wanna be in wrestling!