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Hi, Will,

Thanks for posting. I’m really pleased to hear that you went back to finish my TITANIC trilogy, and that you really enjoyed it.

Re: Alfie. You’re right. One of the kids had to die. It couldn’t be Daniel — even the reader thought for a while that he was already dead, so he had to be alive! It couldn’t be Paddy. I wouldn’t kill my protagonist. And I refused to kill off the girls. So it was poor Alfie, abandoned by his Mom, penniless and also fatherless unless he got the job on the ship, who paid the price — you might almost say he was doomed from the start. 

I hope you’ll check out THE BOOKS section of this website and read some more of my stuff. You might enjoy MASTERMINDS. for instance — another trilogy. Thanks again for your message.

                                                                                                   —–Gordon Korman—–