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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Mar 12, 2009 17:23:49 GMT -5
If she ever regreted using ghostwriters. Good one! I would love to know why she used ghostwriters too. This would probably be taken as snarky, but I would ask why some characters were always called by their middle and last name (DM, Emily Michelle, etc.). |
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 15, 2009 22:09:55 GMT -5
I would ask her if she had the opportunity to do it over or scrap FF and continue from "The Fire at MA's House" if she'd consider having the girl's grow older.
I'd also ask her, this has always bugged me, why Charlotte, who supposedly skipped into third grade when she was 7 going on 8, in when the older BSC-er's were in 7th grade, why she wasn't promoted to 4th grade, 8 going on 9 for the remaining books.
Editing to say that Charlotte should have stayed in 4th Grade and not been "demoted" back to 3rd possibly for the sake of her friendship with Becca.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 15, 2009 22:30:02 GMT -5
I would love to know why she used ghostwriters too. Because she had to? ;D Not only was there the regular series, but mysteries, super specials, little sister, super mysteries...it wouldn't have happened without help. I sure wish they had grown older considering everything they did over the course of the series...it would have made more sense to have them become 14, 15, 16. Ann's note in the back of Logan Likes Mary Anne mentions the decision to have the girls stay in eighth grade forever after that book, but I can't remember why, or if the reason was given at all. |
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Post by icequeen on Mar 16, 2009 3:03:29 GMT -5
^the only explanation given was that she said if she wrote them a year older each year the babysitters club had been in publication, then they would have practically graduated from college. I wish they had have aged periodically though. Begun high school atleast
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 16, 2009 3:44:36 GMT -5
Right. I would have liked them remaining high school age.
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Post by greer on Mar 16, 2009 7:25:29 GMT -5
I think that if the girls did end up going to high school they'd have to start dealing with some more difficult issues and some splntering of the group--it would end up more like CA diaries. By keeping them in eighth grade, they didn't change the target age range. Generally the BSC was a main interest of a girl for a year or two, and then they moved on. It's not like Alice McKinley, for example, where the books come out every year or two, so Alice aging along with a reader makes more sense--someone might read the first Alice book in fifth grade or so, and then the books where Alice is in high school are YA novels, not middle grade ones.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 16, 2009 14:37:28 GMT -5
Also true...there seemed to be a general outgrowing of the BSC at a young age.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 17, 2009 19:33:15 GMT -5
I would ask her how much she got paid for a book that she wrote vs. one that a ghostwriter wrote. Also, how much the ghostwriters got paid and if they were all paid equally or based on experience or other factors.
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Post by sugarandspicexx on May 26, 2009 3:24:27 GMT -5
I'd like to know the family dynamic / home life of which sitter most resembled her own growing up.
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Post by greer on May 26, 2009 14:22:04 GMT -5
You can find out about that from her biography.
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Post by sugarandspicexx on May 27, 2009 7:43:35 GMT -5
^ This is something I'll try to look for, I didn't know she had one until the other day and I'm guessing the odds of finding one these days here in Australia might be tricky.
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Post by icequeen on May 31, 2009 6:09:44 GMT -5
I see them around occasionally, and I actually bought mine years ago from a second hand bookshop (not in Melb. though), but not very often.
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Post by starlett2010 on Jun 1, 2009 2:28:23 GMT -5
I would ask her how much she got paid for a book that she wrote vs. one that a ghostwriter wrote. Also, how much the ghostwriters got paid and if they were all paid equally or based on experience or other factors. ^That's a good question. I'd also like to know if Ann hand-picked the ghostwriters or if they were provided by Scholastic. Also, why certain ghosties were only used a few times. Ok, ok, and also why so many d**n Peter Lerangis ghost written books? (Not a P.L. fan!) |
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Post by candykane on Jun 1, 2009 16:29:26 GMT -5
In her bio, Ann claims that the craziest thing she ever did in college was eat ice cream for breakfast. I would ask her what was the REAL craziest thing she ever did! Ann doesn't seem like a wild and crazy type, but I find it hard to believe she never did anything crazy. I figured since the bio was written with an audience of young girls in mind, they had to keep it tame.  |
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 6, 2009 13:38:39 GMT -5
I'd ask Ann if she knows about this forum, if she looks at the things we write here, what she thinks of this place and maybe if she would join us in our conversations.
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