Author Event with Sarah Mlynowski
[0:00]Yes, that's really, I'm sorry, I probably can't do that.
[0:07]I literally just like, it's my girlfriend,
[0:10]or legal, it's not kind to do that.
[0:13]And they're like, it's so sharp, they can't do that.
[0:18]And I knew I was going to go, I was going to go back.
[0:21]That's young.
[0:23]Sugar.
[0:25]I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,
[0:28]girl, it's like looking at the wall.
[0:30]Okay, anyway, I'm just ready to see where,
[0:34]as well with me before, okay?
[0:36]She was pregnant with Annabelle during this book,
[0:39]the third one, and it seems so much to me
[0:41]to be here with all of you guys.
[0:44]So, I'm going to think of someone talking
[0:45]something silly so I can laugh, okay?
[0:47]Okay.
[0:49]Okay, so in whatever after,
[0:51]at the end, her brothers fall into different fairy tales,
[0:54]mess them up and snap to help the characters
[0:57]by new happy endings.
[0:58]And there are 20 of the books, 20 books in this series
[1:02]so far.
[1:03]I'm guessing you guys are all familiar
[1:04]with you, whatever after books, right?
[1:06]Okay, good.
[1:07]So, in book one, they fall into the story of Snow White,
[1:10]okay?
[1:11]And they mess it up.
[1:12]They don't know they're going into the fairy tales
[1:14]in a way, they even get pulled into the mirror
[1:16]and somehow end up in the story.
[1:18]And accidentally stops no way
[1:21]from eating the poison apple.
[1:22]And if she doesn't eat the poison apple,
[1:24]then Snow White doesn't get poisoned.
[1:26]She doesn't get poisoned, she doesn't die.
[1:28]And she doesn't die, then the prince can't bring her back
[1:30]to life and they've messed up a whole story.
[1:33]Anyone know what book two was?
[1:35]What was book two?
[1:35]Yes, Cinderella and they messed that up too.
[1:39]Book three was Pinkersland, yeah?
[1:41]Which fairy tale is it?
[1:44]Pinkersland, yeah, what fairy tale do you know?
[1:46]The little mermaid, absolutely.
[1:48]I won't go through all of them,
[1:50]but I always like to ask about this one.
[1:52]What fairy tale do you think they messed up with cold designs?
[1:54]Yep, Frozen is close.
[1:57]Frozen is the name of the Disney movie.
[1:58]Does anyone know what the original fairy tale,
[2:01]because my characters always fall into the original fairy tale
[2:04]because I don't want Disney to sue me?
[2:06]Yes, Snow Queen, good work.
[2:09]So when everyone they fall into a different fairy tale
[2:12]and they never go back into the same fairy tale twice,
[2:16]except in this final book in the series.
[2:20]So this is the last book, I'm done with my tears, I promise.
[2:24]And so I'm gonna read a little bit from this
[2:27]and that I'm happy to answer any questions that you guys have.
[2:30]And then I'm happy to sign any books.
[2:33]We have lots of copies of Mirror Mirror.
[2:35]We have some of the copies of other books in the series
[2:38]and we even have, this is a month early.
[2:41]I had no idea that this was gonna have it,
[2:43]but the book two of the graphic novel.
[2:45]The entity guys like the graphic,
[2:47]this is not on sale anywhere else in the entire world,
[2:51]except right here, today only.
[2:54]After this, they have to cut this away for a month, okay?
[2:57]So then we do have copies here of this.
[3:01]Okay, so I'm gonna read a little bit of Mirror Mirror
[3:03]and I'm just gonna stand, I think,
[3:05]and then I'm gonna answer questions.
[3:07]So, you know, when I started writing this series,
[3:10]I didn't need reading glasses.
[3:11]And that was 16 years ago.
[3:14]I'm like, I can make this work, okay.
[3:15]So in this section that I'm reading right now,
[3:19]Abby and Jonah have found out at the beginning of the book
[3:22]that their parents would like them to move back
[3:25]to Naperville.
[3:26]Now the whole series started when they moved to Smithville
[3:29]and found the magic mirror in their basement.
[3:31]And now their parents have said that they have to move back
[3:34]or they might be moving back.
[3:35]And Abby is really upset about this.
[3:38]So Abby of course, that night at midnight,
[3:40]she goes to talk to the magic mirror,
[3:43]she goes to Mary Rose to ask Mary Rose,
[3:45]if she moves away from this house,
[3:48]will they still be able to go into fairy tales?
[3:50]That's what she asks.
[3:51]Now, as soon as she asks that question,
[3:55]Mary Rose is like, I'm not sure,
[3:58]but I need you, just in case,
[4:00]you do move to go on one last mission for me.
[4:05]And Abby's a great all go.
[4:07]And then she doesn't say she doesn't ask,
[4:09]wait, go, she doesn't know where she's going.
[4:12]And the next thing she knows,
[4:13]she gets swooped inside the mirror
[4:14]and she has no idea where she's going to be.
[4:16]So I'm gonna start reading from here.
[4:19]Okay, ready?
[4:20]They've just landed in this fairy tale world.
[4:23]They don't know where they are yet.
[4:27]We stand up and I spin around trying to orient myself.
[4:31]What fairy tale did Mary Rose send us into?
[4:35]In front of us is a castle.
[4:37]It's big, it's beige.
[4:39]And it has lots of towers.
[4:41]It looks like just that you'd expect a storybook castle to look.
[4:46]There's even a massive drawbridge
[4:48]that's down and crosses over a boat.
[4:52]What fairy tale has a castle, I wonder?
[4:55]What fairy tale doesn't have a castle, don't ask?
[4:58]Okay, what fairy tale?
[5:00]that we haven't been to yet has a castle, Jonah Shrugs.
[5:04]I feel like we've been to all of them.
[5:07]No, we haven't been to the Emperor's new clothes.
[5:13]Is there a castle in that one, Joan asks?
[5:17]Maybe?
[5:18]Where does an Emperor live?
[5:19]Probably in a castle.
[5:21]There are also invisible clothes.
[5:27]Uh, okay, wait, Abby, Jonah squints at the waterfront
[5:31]and found it under the drawbridge.
[5:33]Doesn't that moat look familiar?
[5:36]I study it.
[5:37]Not really.
[5:38]All moats kind of look the same to me.
[5:41]I think I swam in that moat, Jonah says.
[5:44]You swim in all the moats, I grumble.
[5:47]Anyway, we've never gone to the same fairy tale twice.
[5:50]Maybe Mary Rose is here.
[5:52]She'll explain, I say, looking around.
[5:55]Mary Rose, my voice echoes around the health.
[5:59]Prince are dog howls.
[6:01]Maybe she's in the castle, Jonah says.
[6:03]Maybe I say, my heart leaps.
[6:06]If we see who lives inside, we'll figure out
[6:10]what story this is.
[6:12]Okay, but first let's go for a quick swim in the moat,
[6:14]Jonah says.
[6:15]No, I say, Mary Rose needs our help now
[6:19]and we can't just float around in a stranger's moat.
[6:22]What if there are crocodiles?
[6:25]There are hardly ever crocodiles and moats, Jonah says.
[6:28]But if there are some here,
[6:31]maybe there are friendly crocodiles
[6:33]where we could ride them.
[6:34]No way, I say.
[6:37]Come on, we'll knock on the castle door.
[6:40]I stepped him in the oat onto the wooden bridge,
[6:43]my brother and Prince behind me.
[6:45]Watch out for splinters, Jonah.
[6:47]I really wish we were wearing shoes.
[6:50]Well, I really wish we could swim in the moat, Jonah says.
[6:53]I guess we can't always get what we want, I say,
[6:56]as we walk up to the castle door.
[6:58]I lift the massive gold knocker
[7:00]and let it fall against the wood.
[7:03]I swallow nervously, who will answer?
[7:06]I don't know what if it actually is the emperor
[7:09]and he's wearing invisible clothes.
[7:12]I don't need to see that, then I freeze.
[7:15]Wait, what if, what if someone evil lives here, I whisper?
[7:21]Why wouldn't Mary Rose send us to an evil person's castle?
[7:24]What does she even need to?
[7:26]There are a lot of evil royals and fairy tales.
[7:29]Jonah clocks his head to the side.
[7:31]Oh, that wouldn't be great.
[7:32]I think I'd rather meet a naked emperor
[7:35]than an evil royal.
[7:37]Maybe it's a nice royal who has friendly crocodiles?
[7:40]Who's there?
[7:41]Someone behind the door asks, uh-oh.
[7:44]Should we run, Jonah asks?
[7:46]Or when you jump in the moat,
[7:48]no jumping in the moat, I order.
[7:51]Hello, who is it?
[7:53]The person asks, the people who live here
[7:56]could really use a security camera, Jonah mutters.
[8:00]I take a deep breath.
[8:01]I guess we don't have much of a choice.
[8:04]We're here, they've heard us.
[8:06]Might as well hope for the best
[8:08]and find out what we're dealing with.
[8:11]It's Abby and Jonah, I say my voice shaking.
[8:14]We're two kids from Smithville.
[8:17]I'm not sure if we're in the right place
[8:19]that I get nervous again.
[8:20]We can come back, don't worry about it.
[8:22]We don't want to interrupt.
[8:23]You should just forget we were even here.
[8:26]I grab my brother's head and I'm about to make a run for it
[8:30]when the door swings open.
[8:33]I guess, a very tiny, very familiar looking elderly woman
[8:38]is standing there staring at us.
[8:41]Abby and Jonah, is it really you?
[8:44]The woman asks, I blink.
[8:46]She's Frances, one of the seven dwarfs
[8:50]from Snow White.
[8:52]Frances, I asked, shocked, what are you doing here?
[8:55]I live here, she says, resting one hand on her cane.
[8:58]What are you up to doing here?
[9:00]I don't know, I say.
[9:02]Told you the moat looks familiar.
[9:04]Jonah says, muggly, I look back at the moat
[9:08]and then at the castle and at Frances.
[9:11]Are we back in Snow White's story?
[9:14]I asked, Frances, smiles.
[9:17]You certainly are.
[9:21]Thank you.
[9:27]So this is their very first time going back
[9:30]to the same story twice.
[9:32]And when I got the idea for this book,
[9:34]I've been on the phone with my editor.
[9:36]We were trying to come up with the next one.
[9:38]I was really like, there's no fairy tales left guys.
[9:40]I'm not doing that for as new clothes.
[9:42]There was almost some bulena for a bit,
[9:44]but then I kept telling people I was doing some bulena
[9:46]and I would say 99% of the people I said,
[9:49]that's you, I had never heard of some bulena.
[9:52]So I was debating and then my editor said,
[9:54]well, what if she goes back to one of the stories?
[9:58]What if she goes back to Snow White?
[10:00]And as June, she said that, I said, oh, that's how it ends.
[10:04]That's the ending.
[10:05]And then I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I was like, no,
[10:08]Amy, my other is Amy, I was like, oh, that's exactly how it ends.
[10:13]And so I knew then the whole ending came to me of the whole series.
[10:17]And I knew that that's when I knew it was time.
[10:19]And so I ended this series.
[10:20]So I'm sorry for those of you who, who,
[10:23]who that makes sad besides just me.
[10:24]But you know what?
[10:26]Sometimes we have to move on and to start new things
[10:29]and to do new stuff.
[10:30]And I'm really excited that I came up with the ending
[10:33]and tied it all together.
[10:35]And not only do Abby and Jonah fell in just no way,
[10:36]but all the other princesses come back
[10:39]and make an appearance in this book.
[10:41]So it's a big, epic finale.
[10:43]And a lot of other series before.
[10:45]And I haven't always had the opportunity
[10:47]to end them properly.
[10:48]Sometimes they just kind of end.
[10:50]So it was really nice.
[10:51]And I'm feeling very grateful that I
[10:52]was able to do that.
[10:54]So thank you, guys.
[10:55]And that's my little talk.
[10:57]Thank you.
[10:58]And now I'm happy to answer any questions that you guys have.
[11:06]I just want to call it my agent of a long time
[11:07]to send Laura.
[11:08]Hi Laura.
[11:09]She's always based on some beginning
[11:10]since I remember calling her at this idea.
[11:13]And I don't even remember how this came about.
[11:15]But I was like, I have an idea.
[11:16]And she was very excited.
[11:17]So thank you for selling awesome stuff.
[11:19]Mm-hmm.
[11:20]I think Sarah's written a few books.
[11:22]Mm-hmm.
[11:23]And I think I've been part of course now.
[11:25]Yeah, I think it's true since the beginning pretty much.
[11:30]And what questions do you guys have for me?
[11:33]I know you have questions.
[11:34]I want to go ahead.
[11:36]I have a question.
[11:37]Go on and watch the question.
[11:38]Yes?
[11:40]For you, it's like when you wrote your first book,
[11:43]how did you get started with that?
[11:46]And then especially with Siri, how do you keep
[11:49]the momentum going?
[11:50]And now you're talking about how this is the ending
[11:53]for this series going for your other series,
[11:56]like how do you know when you have an ending?
[12:00]How do you know when you have an ending?
[12:01]I mean, I was lucky to know when I had an ending with this.
[12:04]And that's a lot of questions, which is great, because no,
[12:06]no, no, no.
[12:07]All good, because no one else's were heading out.
[12:09]So I could answer all this.
[12:10]So the first one of my first book was actually called
[12:12]Milcrad, and it was for Bruno.
[12:14]And I used to work in Harlequin romances in Toronto.
[12:18]And I wrote my first book about it's 20 something
[12:21]who worked for Harlequin romances at the time.
[12:25]I changed the name to keep it was very different.
[12:27]And it was all about the whole long funny story.
[12:30]It was all about a girl wanting to get over her ex-boyfriend.
[12:34]And so it was all about that.
[12:36]But then what happened in real life,
[12:38]I was too, was going through a breakup
[12:40]and trying to get over my ex-boyfriend.
[12:42]But then I ended up getting back together
[12:43]with my ex-boyfriend, who is my husband.
[12:45]And I was like, I thought.
[12:49]I'm a father of our two girls over there.
[12:53]So that was my first book.
[12:54]And then that was not a series.
[12:56]That was the standalone.
[12:57]And then my first series was Brows and Broomsticks,
[13:00]which is for teenagers, which is not in print right now.
[13:03]But we are working on the graphic novel of that.
[13:05]So hopefully we will be in print again soon.
[13:09]And that was the first time that I said,
[13:10]OK, I want to try writing a series.
[13:12]Because as a reader, when I was younger,
[13:14]I loved reading series.
[13:17]That's why I fell in love with books.
[13:18]Because you read one, and then you love the characters.
[13:21]You fall in love with them, and you want to know
[13:22]what else happens to them.
[13:24]So I knew I always wanted to do that.
[13:26]And that was four books in the series.
[13:28]And I just kept knowing that I love series.
[13:32]And I love plotting.
[13:33]And for me, the hardest part of a book
[13:35]is actually coming up with the characters
[13:36]and creating the world.
[13:38]To me, that is my least favorite and hardest part.
[13:40]So a series is just plot and fun.
[13:43]And throwing these characters that you've already
[13:45]made into different worlds.
[13:47]So to me, I'm always, whenever I can write a series,
[13:49]I always do.
[13:51]And in terms of my other ones, like Upset on Magic,
[13:55]if anyone is interested in Magic School or Sydney, Disney
[13:57]movie for Upset on Magic, then there
[13:59]are eight books in the series.
[14:01]And we wanted to end it at the right point.
[14:04]We always didn't know if we would do more,
[14:06]but we did it so that every single character in that story
[14:10]gets to tell one of the stories.
[14:12]So it was a complete eight books for them.
[14:15]And that's a good that we have a lot of book one
[14:17]in the series here, too, if anybody wants any of them.
[14:21]You're welcome.
[14:22]Did I enter all the parts?
[14:23]OK, good.
[14:25]Next question.
[14:28]That's a lot of the question.
[14:30]So I have a question.
[14:32]No, I have a question.
[14:34]Oh, I can't wait to do it.
[14:41]Do you want to wait till after?
[14:42]Is that OK?
[14:43]And then I can come look at that.
[14:45]OK.
[14:46]Yes?
[14:47]What do you think will favor whatever after that?
[14:50]Oh, it's a great question.
[14:51]And it's hard.
[14:52]And there's different parts to it, OK?
[14:53]So I would say my favorite experience of writing,
[14:57]it was probably this sixth book in the series,
[14:59]which was cool.
[15:00]which is here, and the reason was because as I was writing it, two parts.
[15:07]One, my daughters were both obsessed with frozen at the time.
[15:11]And we just would watch the movie constantly because this was like,
[15:15]when was that 10 years ago or something?
[15:17]We actually had the karaoke, let it go machine in our house,
[15:20]and then we went out to have the pleasure of having that.
[15:22]Yeah.
[15:23]So it was, we were listening to it all the time and also Chloe had just,
[15:27]had just started kindergarten when I wrote this.
[15:30]And I printed out the page roots, which is like the design books.
[15:34]And I read it to her.
[15:35]We were living in New York, and I read it to her on the subway,
[15:38]going up to her first week of kindergarten.
[15:41]And it was such a special experience for me to read a book to my daughter.
[15:45]And I had never read my books out loud before.
[15:48]For anyone here who is in a school,
[15:51]reading a book to my daughter.
[15:53]And I had never read my books out loud before.
[15:56]For anyone here who is an aspiring writer, reading your stuff out loud,
[16:00]it's such an amazing way to catch your mistakes and to just like hear the,
[16:05]hear the words as they come out of your mouth and to see what it,
[16:08]what it sounds like.
[16:09]So I highly recommend it.
[16:10]But for me, reading that to Chloe was such a special experience,
[16:13]and it'll always be one of my favorite books.
[16:15]But the late, I also am really excited about mirror mirror.
[16:18]I don't usually just say, I'm going to lay this one that I wrote.
[16:21]But this one, I think I pulled it off.
[16:24]It's scary just to dad and write and try to,
[16:27]you know, you have 19 books in this series.
[16:29]Okay, well, how do you pull this all together?
[16:32]How do you like make sure that you do a justice?
[16:34]And I worked really hard on it.
[16:36]And I think I did.
[16:37]I'll have the way to hear it, you guys.
[16:40]But I'm excited about it.
[16:42]Other questions too?
[16:45]Mm-hmm.
[16:46]Yes.
[16:47]I'm working on that.
[16:48]Oh, good question, Leo.
[16:50]I'm going to plan to that question.
[16:54]Actually, I have a new series that is launching in September.
[16:58]It is called The Lucky's.
[17:00]And I'm not really allowed to talk about it.
[17:02]This is actually the first time I'm telling anyone about it.
[17:04]I co-wrote it with an author named Christina Stenford.
[17:07]You guys know Christina.
[17:08]She wrote that tryout.
[17:09]She's been nominated for tons of new barriers.
[17:12]She's amazing.
[17:13]And we have a three book series and it's launching.
[17:15]You'll find out lots more and we announced it for real.
[17:17]But I am really excited about it.
[17:19]The first book is done.
[17:21]And there'll be at least three for that.
[17:26]More questions?
[17:28]Yes.
[17:29]I was wondering for like TV show or movies.
[17:34]There are not.
[17:36]Right now.
[17:37]That's not to say that I wouldn't love for there to be.
[17:40]There has been in the past before.
[17:42]We came very, very close.
[17:44]So close at the production office was actually opening and we had a cast.
[17:48]And everything at some point, but then COVID happened.
[17:51]And it did not end up happening.
[17:53]So I would love, love, love for there to be something of anyone here is connected.
[17:59]And anyway, I want to talk about it right to our available.
[18:03]And outside of magic was a movie.
[18:05]So if anyone, I did get a Disney movie for outside of magic.
[18:08]And that was really, really fun to see, to watch.
[18:12]That also, that came out during COVID.
[18:14]And it was such a fun way to celebrate, I guess, books during that time.
[18:19]Yes.
[18:20]Who's your favorite character in this?
[18:23]In whatever after?
[18:25]I mean, I love writing Jonah for me.
[18:28]Jonah is so much fun.
[18:29]And, you know, it's funny.
[18:30]Characters definitely develop as you with every book.
[18:33]I remember I threw in in book one, I think that Jonah love catch up.
[18:37]Because my children were obsessed with catch up at the time.
[18:40]And I just thought it was funny.
[18:42]And every time, every email I got, every reader I met after just wanted to discuss Jonah and his obsession with catch up.
[18:49]So in every book, I would bring back the catch up.
[18:52]Jonah's just really fun for me to write.
[18:55]And I liked writing all the princesses.
[18:57]Also, as they were really fun.
[18:59]I think I had a lot, I had a good time writing, I think Cinderella specifically because she was like a gay character.
[19:05]And it was the eighth Cinderella was kind of like mean, okay, in my book, a little bit.
[19:10]And everyone sees her in a certain way.
[19:12]So it's kind of when I actually read the original text, if you go back and read Cinderella.
[19:16]She's not always so nice.
[19:18]She could be a bit bitter and like, she likes her revenge and everything.
[19:21]So I thought, okay, that's fun.
[19:22]I want to play with that.
[19:23]So I was fun for me to do.
[19:26]Good question.
[19:29]Any other questions?
[19:30]Or should I say, oh, yeah.
[19:32]Okay.
[19:33]Now that this series is done, we're wondering,
[19:36]can we all go follow the best wishes period?
[19:38]Yes.
[19:39]Are there any more questions about the best wishes period?
[19:41]At this point there are four.
[19:43]So there are some of the best wishes here.
[19:45]Best wishes is about a girl who makes a wish to have more friends and ends up getting a magic bracelet.
[19:53]And then that wish comes true.
[19:55]And only not only does the person she wanted to be friends with become friends with her.
[20:00]but every single person in her class
[20:02]who wants to be her best friend.
[20:03]Everyone in her school wants to be her best friend.
[20:05]Everyone basically in the entire city of New York
[20:07]wants to be her best friend.
[20:09]And that's book one.
[20:10]And then the bracelet gets passed on to other girls.
[20:13]So, and I wrote the first book on my own
[20:16]and then I co-wrote all the other books in this series
[20:18]with other authors, including Christina,
[20:21]actually, who co-wrote book three with me
[20:23]and Debbie, who co-wrote book two
[20:25]and Hannah Con, co-wrote book three.
[20:27]And at this point,
[20:28]there are not going to be more.
[20:30]And I would love to.
[20:32]But that's an example of an ending
[20:33]that I did not get to plan.
[20:35]And it just didn't happen
[20:37]that we could do more at the time.
[20:39]And so, I would love to because I would love
[20:41]to properly tie everything up.
[20:43]And maybe one day, it's not to say that there isn't,
[20:46]but not at the moment.
[20:48]I already know where I would dare to come to Miami.
[20:50]I already have an author in mind.
[20:52]And I know, I've already discussed with the authors
[20:55]and maybe one day.
[20:57]But there are going to be more graphic novel.
[20:58]So not only is book two going to be a graphic novel,
[21:03]is out right now, but book three will also be a graphic novel.
[21:06]And hopefully, it will not.
[21:08]And we'll book three.
[21:09]Hopefully, we can get to all 20 books in this series.
[21:12]There's lots.
[21:13]It depends on lots of things.
[21:15]Mm-hmm.
[21:16]Who does the graphic novel?
[21:18]Who like the artist?
[21:19]So this one is actually Bethany Crandell.
[21:23]There's lots of people involved in the graphic novel.
[21:27]I had no idea how much work graphic novels
[21:30]were until I started to create one.
[21:33]So basically, I sold the rights of my story.
[21:38]They hired somebody to write the script of the graphic novel.
[21:42]So I didn't even do the script of the graphic novel.
[21:44]And then they hired an artist to map out what the graphic is.
[21:49]And then they have someone else who sometimes
[21:51]colors in the graphic novel.
[21:53]There's someone else who's the letter.
[21:55]That's a job who puts in the letters and the words in this.
[21:58]So there's a lot of people involved.
[22:01]And they take a really, really long time to do.
[22:05]So for example, like this book, we've
[22:08]been working on it for maybe three, four years at this point.
[22:12]So a really long time.
[22:13]And book three is in process now.
[22:15]And hopefully, that'll be out next a year from now.
[22:20]That's graphic novel.
[22:22]All right.
[22:22]I think that's good.
[22:24]Oh, yes.
[22:25]Ah, last weekend, we found this book I find in Marvel.
[22:28]And he was still September.
[22:30]Yeah, how it ended up things.
[22:32]How do they end up there?
[22:34]Wow.
[22:36]So what happens is they all print in this.
[22:39]They all print somewhere.
[22:41]Maybe they print somewhere.
[22:42]They ship them to the bookstores.
[22:44]And the bookstore is not really supposed
[22:46]to release the books before the official pub day.
[22:50]So sometimes in the back of a story,
[22:51]you'll have boxes of all kinds of books
[22:53]that are ready to come out on the publication day.
[22:57]And so they just let them out earlier than they were supposed to.
[23:01]I know I got a lot of emails from people
[23:03]who saw the book at Barnes & Noble around the country.
[23:06]It's not just here.
[23:07]It's that they was found in all around the country.
[23:10]But it's the same way that this was not supposed to be
[23:12]for sale.
[23:13]Sometimes you guys get lucky that this
[23:15]is not out for another month.
[23:16]I haven't actually seen this book until I walked in today.
[23:20]And it's like it's so cute.
[23:22]So I'm really excited about this.
[23:24]Yeah, that's it.
[23:27]There also will be an audio for the end.
[23:29]And if you guys listened to the audio books,
[23:31]the audio's are amazing.
[23:32]Emily Auden is fantastic.
[23:34]She lives in LA.
[23:35]Let's do it.
[23:37]And she does a great job.
[23:39]And they're all available.
[23:39]I know some people like to fall asleep to them.
[23:41]And she does a great job.
[23:44]This will be also released.
[23:45]And we actually did a little Q&A at the end of the audio
[23:49]together this time when she felt it.
[23:52]Now that I live in LA, I was able to go
[23:53]and to do a little talk with her.
[23:55]So there's going to be that at the end of the, oh.
[23:57]And actually I read the acknowledgements, which I've never
[24:01]done.
[24:01]So I got to read the acknowledgements at the at Mirror Mirror
[24:04]in the final book.
[24:09]Yes, Julie.
[24:10]Did you cry when you read the book?
[24:11]Yes, I did.
[24:12]I did some.
[24:14]There's pictures of me just like, I could not.
[24:16]I was like, I don't know if you cry.
[24:18]I'm very emotional, you know?
[24:20]I knew I'm sorry.
[24:21]I apologize.
[24:22]I'm sorry.
[24:23]I'm most I did cry the whole time.
[24:26]We got some very, very good.
[24:28]Emily took pictures of me as I cried.
[24:31]But she's fantastic.
[24:32]And it's been Julie Busbaum area 51, but it's also
[24:35]a kid with kids with us.
[24:36]Yes, that's the opposite.
[24:37]I don't know if they have been here, but I'm sure they
[24:39]can order them otherwise.
[24:42]Yes.
[24:43]Yes.
[24:44]When you're in a full-freading world, do you force yourself
[24:47]to write an sister on a page of the day or a certain amount
[24:50]of time a day?
[24:51]And then maybe like edit it later.
[24:53]Great question.
[24:53]If anyone else has other writing questions,
[24:55]I'm happy to talk about that too.
[24:56]Yes.
[24:57]So I'm trying different things.
[25:00]I've been writing since I was, since I was like a little kid, I was writing, always writing
[25:03]books.
[25:04]But I became a professional writer in that, what I was working for, how can I wrote my first
[25:09]book?
[25:10]So I was probably 21.
[25:11]So at this point, I'm 26.
[25:12]No.
[25:13]It's been a long time, I've been doing this for many, many, many years, and I've tried
[25:18]different things over the years.
[25:20]I used to, this is weird, put Law and Order on in the background, all day, this is before
[25:25]I had children, and just let Law and Order play and play.
[25:29]And while I would write my books, and I think for me, I couldn't, I can't handle
[25:34]the pressure of, okay, now I'm going to sit at my desk and write for eight hours straight,
[25:38]and it's going to be brilliant and fantastic.
[25:40]I can't actually do that, so I need some sort of trick to do.
[25:43]So either I would do that in the background, and I would try to say, okay, I'm going to
[25:46]do 500 words an hour, and over, and during that time I wrote like three, four books,
[25:51]I was young.
[25:52]I then, I really was 26 then, and I would write like three, four books a year, long
[25:57]or books, and I would produce a lot more, you know, then.
[26:01]And then after I had children, I stopped playing Law and Order in the background at all
[26:05]times.
[26:06]They found it scary, I don't know.
[26:09]And so I tried different things.
[26:11]So now, I forget what it's called, like the 15 minute clock, there's my friend's call
[26:17]at the Monosky Method, but it's not.
[26:19]What do we call it?
[26:20]Yeah, that's it.
[26:21]And so we do, we put the timer on for 15 minutes, and then you write right right during
[26:27]the 15 minutes, and then you take a break for 15.
[26:31]And during the break, you could keep writing if you're in the groove, in the flow state,
[26:35]I know the casting was, yeah, you can just keep writing, or you could take a break, answer
[26:41]social media, get coffee, rent to the restroom, whatever.
[26:44]So I've tried different things to get it done, but usually, there's a lot, there's a lot
[26:48]of work that has to be done as a writer that's not just writing, like social media is a
[26:53]huge part of the job now, and it was not, you know, it was not at all when I started.
[26:59]There was no, there was my space when I started, but, yeah, the kids were like, what?
[27:04]Yeah, there was actually before, for instance, there was a lot of different things.
[27:09]And also a lot of big part of my job is doing public events, is talking at schools, is
[27:16]you know, just doing all the other stuff that goes with being an author and isn't just
[27:21]writing the book.
[27:23]So that's it.
[27:24]I would love to have you come to our school.
[27:26]Oh, okay.
[27:27]Okay.
[27:28]Are you writing any more kids books?
[27:30]No, yeah, I do have, I have a picture book as well, yes, so I have a picture book called
[27:35]a Dragon for Hanukkah that came out last year, which is about a girl who gets, this magical
[27:40]gift for every night of Hanukkah, and I do my last estate, we don't have a title yet,
[27:45]but I do have, I've already, a Halloween picture book, yeah, I'm just going through all
[27:50]my kids' favorite holidays.
[27:51]I actually really want to do New Year's Eve, I have an idea that I'm talking about.
[27:58]And so the Halloween book, which we don't really have a title, the working title is
[28:04]Boo Crew, but I don't think that's what it'll be called.
[28:06]And that'll probably, that'll be out in not, it takes forever.
[28:09]If you think graphic novels take a long time, picture books are like double that.
[28:13]So that'll be coming out, I believe, in 2027 Halloween season, so yes, I will have more.
[28:20]Anything else?
[28:21]Or should I decide books now?
[28:25]Okay, thank you guys, I'm happy to answer other questions, but you know if you have
[28:29]a private one, thank you guys so much for coming, I really appreciate it, thank you, thank
[28:38]you, thank you, thank you for your support, good store for hosting me, thank you, that's
[28:40]us.
[28:41]Thank you for your sales, she said she'd sign them for you, and thank you for being here,
[28:44]thank you guys so much.