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From: Brenda Ferber <brendaaferber>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:31:02 -0500
Tanya is having technical difficulties, so I'm posting this for her...
Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> Like Brenda, a personal highlight of my professional life has been
> connecting with Judy in person. When you have admired someone you
> put on a pedestal since the age of 12, there is the real fear that,
> in real life, that person will not live up to the idealized image
> you have of them. This was not the case with Judy Blume! She was
> every bit as fantastic as I hoped she would be. This meeting
> happened after she had read my YA novel, through which I had
> threaded FOREVER. Of course, it had not even occurred to me that she
> would ever read what I wrote, and at first, I panicked. What if she
> hated it? But I soon learned that was not the case. For me, as soon
> as I had decided that I was going to have a book connect my three
> characters there was no question in my mind which book it would be.
> FOREVER held the mysteries of the world in it when I was young. I
> still love being able to hand it to girls who have somehow not yet
> discovered it.
>
> BLUBBER was another book that made a big impact on me as a young
> reader, as well as ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET. Now that
> I've gone from young reader to old writer, it's clear to me that
> these books helped shape the kind of writer I am today. Her body of
> work, and its intention, changed our literary fabric, and it is Judy
> Blume this girl has to thank for not stopping to wonder whether I
> should be afraid to write about real and honest things, whether or
> not they are controversial or potentially uncomfortable.
>
> Tanya
>
> Tanya Lee Stone
> www.tanyastone.com
> Elizabeth Leads the Way (Holt, 2008)
> Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald (Viking, 2008)
> Sandy's Circus (Viking, 2008)
> Almost Astronauts (Candlewick, 2009)
> A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (Wendy Lamb/Random House)
_____________________ Brenda Ferber, Author JULIA'S KITCHEN JEMMA HARTMAN, CAMPER EXTRAORDINAIRE (spring, 2009) THE YUCKIEST, DROOLIEST, STINKIEST, BEST VALENTINE'S DAY EVER (2011) www.brendaferber.com www.brendaferber.blogspot.com
Received on Fri 03 Oct 2008 07:31:02 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:31:02 -0500
Tanya is having technical difficulties, so I'm posting this for her...
Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> Like Brenda, a personal highlight of my professional life has been
> connecting with Judy in person. When you have admired someone you
> put on a pedestal since the age of 12, there is the real fear that,
> in real life, that person will not live up to the idealized image
> you have of them. This was not the case with Judy Blume! She was
> every bit as fantastic as I hoped she would be. This meeting
> happened after she had read my YA novel, through which I had
> threaded FOREVER. Of course, it had not even occurred to me that she
> would ever read what I wrote, and at first, I panicked. What if she
> hated it? But I soon learned that was not the case. For me, as soon
> as I had decided that I was going to have a book connect my three
> characters there was no question in my mind which book it would be.
> FOREVER held the mysteries of the world in it when I was young. I
> still love being able to hand it to girls who have somehow not yet
> discovered it.
>
> BLUBBER was another book that made a big impact on me as a young
> reader, as well as ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET. Now that
> I've gone from young reader to old writer, it's clear to me that
> these books helped shape the kind of writer I am today. Her body of
> work, and its intention, changed our literary fabric, and it is Judy
> Blume this girl has to thank for not stopping to wonder whether I
> should be afraid to write about real and honest things, whether or
> not they are controversial or potentially uncomfortable.
>
> Tanya
>
> Tanya Lee Stone
> www.tanyastone.com
> Elizabeth Leads the Way (Holt, 2008)
> Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald (Viking, 2008)
> Sandy's Circus (Viking, 2008)
> Almost Astronauts (Candlewick, 2009)
> A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (Wendy Lamb/Random House)
_____________________ Brenda Ferber, Author JULIA'S KITCHEN JEMMA HARTMAN, CAMPER EXTRAORDINAIRE (spring, 2009) THE YUCKIEST, DROOLIEST, STINKIEST, BEST VALENTINE'S DAY EVER (2011) www.brendaferber.com www.brendaferber.blogspot.com
Received on Fri 03 Oct 2008 07:31:02 AM CDT
