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Sarah Allen's avatar

Look, nineties movies and The Inklings and Greta Gerwig are my favorite things so I am OBSESSED with this haha. I'm with you about sword fights, but I will follow Samwise anywhere. And you DO look like Greta, btw.

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Claire Swinarski's avatar

STOP. (Don't stop!) thank you!!!

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Regina Wall's avatar

Re: your black turtleneck. This past Friday I had the honor of listening to Kate DiCamillo speak!! She said when she first started writing she wore a black turtleneck because she thought that's what all authors wore. She was in college in Florida but kept wearing that black turtleneck!

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Claire Swinarski's avatar

If Kate gives it the go-ahead, that's a gold star for me!

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Jocelyn Soriano's avatar

I think the other question aside from "Why me?" is "Why not?"

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Michael Blissenbach's avatar

Claire, you helped me with my Christmas shopping for both one of my goddaughters (your upcoming new middle grade novel) and for my mother (your debut March 2024 novel). Vielen danken! (as they say in the homeland of my paternal great-great-great grandparents) 🙂

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Afoma Umesi's avatar

Oooh I’m a new Choldenko fan and I haven’t read CHASING SECRETS yet. Will look it up!

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Claire Swinarski's avatar

It's so good!

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