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Hi, Mrs. Cutler & 5L,

Thanks for posting. I’m pleased to hear that RESTART is making a hit with 5L!

Your questions: I haven’t planned a sequel to RESTART, but it’s getting to be very popular, so I won’t rule it out. Chase will probably play football again. Once a running back, always a running back, you know. But he’s not going to be the way he used to be with Aaron and Bear. I became an author in 7th grade in answer to an English assignment. I got carried away and quite accidentally wrote a 100-page story that turned into my first book. It was all by mistake, but I’ve been writing ever since. The list is now 94 titles long! As for how I came to write RESTART, that story is fiction, and came from the same place I get all my ideas — plain old hard work, and a lot of thinking and plotting. No big mystery; it’s just work.

Thanks again, people. I hope you’ll want to read more of my books.    —–Gordon Korman—–