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Author visits can be inspirational to kids, especially those that like creating. It makes jobs like writing seem achievable!

It encourages kids to engage more with the writing, and prompts them to ask more questions!

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1) Why:

Teachers should host author visits because it personalizes a class book. It brings the book to life and brings a new perspective straight from the source of the text.

2) The author:

He went to Queen's University, and has 3 University degrees

3) Our questions:

When making the teacher resource, did you start with points from the curriculum and connect them to the book, or did you use the book to connect to the curriculum?

Why did you switch from finance to writing?

Do you have any personal connections to the storyline in Seeking Draven?

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Do you always write in prose or is this a new thing?

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Where do you find your inspiration? Where does your creativity come from?

A boy who swallows flies as a superpower!?

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How did you organize the book? Some titles have multiple parts. did you write them all at one time and then picked where they fit in?

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Some of his works are never released, maybe revealing that he writes for intrinsic joy and not just for others

Writes a in a variety of literary forms like chapter books, television pilots, graphic novels, interactive epics

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On your website, you wrote: "Some books I've written will never see the light of day."

If you were to publish one of your unpublished books, which would you choose and why?

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You've touched on a lot of genres and mediums in your writing, where do you find your inspiration? Do you find it chanlanging to bounce between genres?

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Hosting author visits provides students, and teachers, opportunities to gain further information about the book, his writing method, and any deeper personal information that may be difficult to gather from the book.

This engagement with the author allows the students to express the meanings of passages that they have found and see if it was intentional or if it was something the author developed unconsciously.

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Why did you choose to write poems over prose?

Do the placement of the mushrooms on some pages have a specific meaning?

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Engaging with the author allows students to delve further into the world created by the author. This sort of engagement will help students make connections of their own based on the author's perspective and inspiration for the story.

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Why did you choose mushrooms as a metaphor for our digital world and connection?

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What inspired you to write in prose? Is prose your preferred medium?

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What inspired you to write this book?