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Hi, D.F.,

Thanks for posting and for your support for so many of my books. If you’ve read 37, you only have 67 more to go to say you’ve read them all!

NO MORE DEAD DOGS was written after young (8 or 9) me cried all the way home after reading WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS and BOB, SON OF BATTLE, and every book where there’s a dog on the cover, and you just know that dog is going down! I wrote my book and deliberately saved the dog, thereby driving the teacher crazy, but striking a blow for all us tear-stained kids. And now you know what motivated that particular book. Seriously — I was upset enough to demand an end to all those dead dogs! And I thought I was doing something about it. It made a point, anyway, didn’t it?

You like to make your writing fun, and so do I! So we have more in common than just Canada and L.I., right? I write for a living but it doesn’t have to be tedious just because it’s work. One of my editors once said that I think like a kid, which is a neat trick, because I haven’t been a kid for a very long time. And it helps that I have Mom, who is well into her 80’s, and she thinks like a kid too!

I hope this helps with your project, DF. Thanks again for your support!                             —–Gordon Korman—–