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Hi, Marcus Mangoba,

Thanks for posting. What an odd question! No. I have never been discriminated against by another writer. And if there have been any comments made against me, I’m either not aware of them, or not looking for them, or too dumb to notice them!

I think it’s my quiet, non-competitive Canadian upbringing that helped. I sold my first book when I was 12, in 7th grade, my second one in 8th, and my third in 9th. That was how my career started. My parents saw to it that I joined a literary group of fellow writers who were all adults. They were all so nice and so helpful to me, and so supportive. That was years ago, and I still think of them fondly. In other words, Marcus, I was okay. I had it good!

                                                                                 —–Gordon Korman—–