Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch by Eli Abell https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14 Author of The War Below en-us 2018-12-17 18:39:58 UTC 2019-01-03 16:45:26 UTC hello@padlet.com ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255083 2018-12-20 18:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255083 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255443 2018-12-20 18:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255443 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255482 2018-12-20 18:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255482 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255519 2018-12-20 18:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255519 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255581 2018-12-20 18:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255581 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255603 2018-12-20 18:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255603 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255648 2018-12-20 18:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316255648 She kept on renewing it for a whole year.Reading that book was a turning point in her life. She decided that she loved reading big fat fiction, and wanted to write it too. She devoured novels by the gallon. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316257029 2018-12-20 18:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316257029 Expecting to be rejected 100 times as well, she sent it out a dozen publishers all at once. Within two weeks, three publishers had already approached her.That book was published in 1996.A year later, she went back to that big fat 100-times rejected novel, tore it apart, and rewrote it bit by bit. It ultimately became five separate books: The Hunger (Dundurn, 1999), Nobody’s Child (Dundurn, 2003), Daughter of War (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2008), Aram’s Choice (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2006) and Call Me Aram (Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2009).Marsha’s had a book out pretty much every year since 1996. Her books seem to follow a general theme — they’re nearly all about young people plunged in the midst of war or oppression. She is best known for her WWII trilogy, Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, and Underground Soldier. These books are available in many countries, have been translated into different languages and have won lots of awards. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316257211 2018-12-20 18:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316257211 Marsha tricked her teachers into thinking she knew how to read until it all caught up with her in grade 4 when she failed the provincial reading exam. Adding insult to injury, they made her repeat the whole year. As the tallest and oldest kid in the class, she didn’t want to be seen learning to read with little skinny books, so she taught herself how to read by taking out the fattest book in the children’s section of the Brantford Public Library — Oliver Twist. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316257730 2018-12-20 18:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316257730 ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258059 2018-12-20 18:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258059 She made herself flash cards and practiced each morning on the bus as she went to school. She got the lowest mark in the class, but she did pass!Upon graduating, she backpacked around Europe, and then took the first job she could get when she got home: selling industrial supplies. She was the first woman in Canada to sell industrial supplies. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258396 2018-12-20 18:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258396 Marsha taught herself how to design grinding wheels, recommend drills and so on and gained the reputation of being “the cutting tool expert of Southwestern Ontario.”While selling industrial supplies was interesting, Marsha never forgot her first dream, which was to become an author. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258694 2018-12-20 18:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258694 She went back to school and got her Master’s degree in library science, figuring this would help her with research techniques. She worked as a librarian for a brief time, but then turned her hand to writing.She wrote a big fat novel and got 100 rejections for it. She set that book aside and wrote Silver Threads. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258988 2018-12-20 18:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316258988 Marsha’s had a book out pretty much every year since 1996. Her books seem to follow a general theme — they’re nearly all about young people plunged in the midst of war or oppression. She is best known for her WWII trilogy, Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, and Underground Soldier. These books are available in many countries, have been translated into different languages and have won lots of awards. ema230 https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316259306 2018-12-20 18:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ema230/zh498nv33w14/wish/316259306