Kerry Madden
Kerry Madden
Q & A (cont'd)
Q. Do your children help you write your books?
A. Yes. When Flannery was little, we created a character called The Jacaranda Werewolf, a gentle werewolf who appeared when the jacarandas bloomed. Then Norah got interested in the story, and she and I began taking walks on the secret steps of Silver Lake to find the jacaranda werewolf, and Lucy said, "You should write that one down." Flannery wants to adapt some short stories and novels into screenplays and thinks we should do it together. Lucy thinks I should write about Louise next in the Gentle's Holler series as is Louise is a desperately shy painter.

Lucy loves to write poetry and enter poetry slams, and Flannery loves to write songs for his band "The Fly Paper Cartel." I used to tell Norah stories about Uncle Hazard in Gentle's Holler just to keep her in her carseat.

Q. Why would kids like Gentle's Holler?
A. I think because it's about a girl, Livy Two Weems, who tells stories through music, and I am hoping the kids who read it may want to write their stories.
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