Comments on: Your Comments and Questions

By: dorothy

dorothy — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:44:25 +0000

Dear Jenna,

SEMIPRECIOUS is a very special book to me, and it’s always so exciting to hear that my readers like it, too! Maybe some day I will write another book about Garnet and Opal. In the meantime, I hope you’ll look for my other books. Here on the website you can see the new cover for PICTURE PERFECT which is coming out this fall. I love it, and I hope my readers will, too.

All my best,
D. Anne

By: dorothy

dorothy — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:40:54 +0000

Dear Grace,

I am delighted that you liked DEFYING THE DIVA, and very glad indeed that your trouble with the bully is past you. Life is so hard sometimes, isn’t it? I But it sounds as if you handled it very well. Good for you!

Thanks so much for writing to me!!

Cheers,
D. Anne

By: Jenna

Jenna — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:22:57 +0000

Hello,
I just finshed reading SEMIPRECIOUS and i LOVED IT it is an amazing story. I have a question Would you ever write a second SEMIPRECIOUS because if you did that would be really cool

By: Grace

Grace — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:02:49 +0000

hi,
I just finished reading “defying the diva” its such a g itood book. I loved it all and I couldnt pick a favourite bit out of it because it was all GREAT!!! i think that franky was my favourite character in it because she is kind, friendly and puts others beffore herself. I think i like her too because she is a little bit like me. I also like vanessa. I also wanted to say that I have been bullied before (not as bad as halley though) and it is not a fun experience. It was in grade 6 where one of my best friends who betrayed my trust in her, emailed me saying that i had copyed her by getting the same phone as her. i was lucky because straight away I told my mum and we did something about it. then later in the year she started bullying me again by saying that i had ditched her to be with the “cool people” i had moved groups but only because i wanna to keep away from her, i emailed her back after what she said and told her that she hurt peoples feeling to make her feel good, which was the truth. she reacted back and said alot of hurtful things. in the end she got punished and suspeneded for a week. all of my friends were supportive and there for me all the time that it happened. well anyway we graduated and now i am in year 7 at a diffrent school from her. we both decided that it was best for us not to keep intouch and now we are both happier and loving our new school. defying the diva was a reall inspiration for me and i loved it. keep up the good work and i look forward to your next book.
Good luck
from Grace

By: dorothy

dorothy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:49:49 +0000

Hi Astrid,

Thanks so much for your email! And it’s so cool that you figured out about the names in my books. I think it’s so much fun to read about a character and then find her in another story, don’t you? It’s like running into an old friend somewhere when you weren’t expecting it.

I hope you have a fantastic summer!

D Anne

By: Astrid Maldonado

Astrid Maldonado — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:40:05 +0000

Hi!
We had to pick an author to write about for my 6th grade biography, and i will pick you over and over and over! ! Also i figured out something cool. I read DEFYING THE DIVE after i read SEMIPRECIOUS and PICTURE PERFECT, and you like the name’s Phoebe, Melanie, and Opal, right? Because in SEMIPRECIOUS, the mom’s name was Melanie and the sister’s name was Opal, and in Picture Perfect the main character is Phoebe. And in DEFYING THE DIVA, there were girls named Phoebe, Melanie, and Opal! And they were also from Texas, which is were PICTURE PERFECT and SEMIPRECIOUS take place!!

By: dorothy

dorothy — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:37:13 +0000

Hi Rodaba,

I’m glad you enjoy my books. Some of my ideas come from readers, others come from things that happened to me or my friends. When I was 14 I had to move to a new state, a new school, and it was hard and scary. I used some of those memories to write Semiprecious.

Some of my readers suggested that I write about bullying in high school because it’s a problem, and that was what led me to write Defying the Diva.

Thanks a bunch for writing to me.

Cheers,
D Anne

By: Rodaba Rahim

Rodaba Rahim — Sat, 08 May 2010 01:05:03 +0000

i love your books and i have a few questions. Where do you get ideas for your books? Are any of your books based on something that has happened to you.

By: dorothy

dorothy — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:51:48 +0000

Hi Julie,

I enjoyed it, too. The boys can be a challenge sometimes, but I can’t imagine life without them.
I’m looking forward to seeing the photos.

Thanks so much for writing. Talk to you soon!

D. Anne

By: Julie Hill

Julie Hill — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:18:59 +0000

Thank you so much fir giving me the opportunity to photograph you today. I very much enjoyed our session today. From the little time we spent today I can see not only the enjoyment you get from writing but also helping our young ones in the society we live in.
I soooo enjoyed also the company of your boys! I got the best pics of them.
Thank you!
Julie Hill