Goodie! Author's note where Amora gets to explain all her madness in the
previous two stories.
I think I became obsessed with Animorphs when I was about.eight, maybe? The series had already been going for about a year or so, and a girl in my Sunday school class, Barbara, had been bringing and reading them. I was at a garage sale, or flea market, or something of the such one day and saw, lo and behold, #2 of this Animorphs series.
Naturally, I didn't expect to get this obsessed in the series. After reading the first one, I asked for two (#7 and #9, I believe) for Christmas. I read those three over and over, and somewhere along the line bought #12, and #15. (Notice that that is three Rachel books, and a Cassie and a Marco. Rachel was originally my favorite character). Then I bought #19, and after that, I more or less bought a book a month. This routine continued for about four or five years. I bought the books at all kinds of places. I preferred getting them at Target or Meijer where they were cheaper, but I also had to wait a lot longer for them, as opposed to getting them almost as soon as they came out at the bookstore. If you believe it, I really thought the series wouldn't have an ending, the writer would just get bored and leave the series after, say 25 books (when you read Salvation Army books a lot, you know how much this happens.you find series books, try to find the sequels, and realize they don't exist, or went out of print years ago). Well, I was very wrong.
For some reason or another, right after I bought #50, I didn't by another for about 4 months. After winning $100 in a radio contest (long story) I had gone on a shopping spree to the mall and bought the last 4. (keep in mind that at this point, I had still never read #1!!). Since I just HAD to get to the last book, I kind of rushed through them all, and the day I finished I started writing my own sequel, I hated the ending so much. Since I had rushed through the last books, the beginning of Through the Ashes is kind of off, even though I've tried to repair it.
That sequel turned into more of a series. Now, if you've done the math or ahead thinking, you've realized that it's taken me about 2 years to write what I now have posted. OK, more like 18 months, because I've been working on the third one for quite some time. I write almost every day, but usually it's just a sentence or two, or editing and reediting. Since it takes so long to write, often I forget what I've written previously and leave a lot of loose ends. You may or may not have noticed this. Also, a lot of the time I write without much of a plan, just let whatever comes come. For instance, I never expected to do a time travel, and I really did not plan to turn it into a soap-opera like romance, but that's what happened, and now that I've redone it a bit, I kind of like the way it's turned out. I always planned on inventing a girlfriend for Marco-he's my favorite character, and I always felt so bad for him-and now I've really established that yes, Sara is indeed that character, they can act in the not-so-subtle boyfriend-girlfriend way Jake and Cassie or Rachel and Tobias acted in the books. Other things in The Ellimist's Plan, though, like the Nartec thing.well, who knows where that came from/is going. Oh, duh. I DO! After I wrote it, I thought for the longest time how to tie that into everything else, and I finally did. But y'all can't know * evil laugh*. Not for a while, at least.
So now I'm working on the third little section/book/chapter/whatever. Although I haven't really decided on a title, one of the ones up in the air is The Coldest Night, and that may or may not be what it will end up as. Want to know what happens? Well, I hope so, or else I doubt you would be reading this.
The Yeerks master plan is revealed, since they don't seem to really be doing anything yet except enslaving pop princesses and annoying the Animorphs.
The Animorphs meet Britney Spears!
At least two of the Animorphs become deathly ill.
More mushy stuff.
One of the Animorphs has a mental breakdown (and it's not Rachel!).
Well, that's probably all I should tell you. And since I figure I should probably dedicate all this to someone, I've come up with two people. One-my younger sister, who has stolen my books, lost one of my favorites (#15.*sigh*), but most importantly, actually read all of this, and encouraged me to write more. And two-Barb, because if not for her, I would probably be saying "Ani-what?"
I think I became obsessed with Animorphs when I was about.eight, maybe? The series had already been going for about a year or so, and a girl in my Sunday school class, Barbara, had been bringing and reading them. I was at a garage sale, or flea market, or something of the such one day and saw, lo and behold, #2 of this Animorphs series.
Naturally, I didn't expect to get this obsessed in the series. After reading the first one, I asked for two (#7 and #9, I believe) for Christmas. I read those three over and over, and somewhere along the line bought #12, and #15. (Notice that that is three Rachel books, and a Cassie and a Marco. Rachel was originally my favorite character). Then I bought #19, and after that, I more or less bought a book a month. This routine continued for about four or five years. I bought the books at all kinds of places. I preferred getting them at Target or Meijer where they were cheaper, but I also had to wait a lot longer for them, as opposed to getting them almost as soon as they came out at the bookstore. If you believe it, I really thought the series wouldn't have an ending, the writer would just get bored and leave the series after, say 25 books (when you read Salvation Army books a lot, you know how much this happens.you find series books, try to find the sequels, and realize they don't exist, or went out of print years ago). Well, I was very wrong.
For some reason or another, right after I bought #50, I didn't by another for about 4 months. After winning $100 in a radio contest (long story) I had gone on a shopping spree to the mall and bought the last 4. (keep in mind that at this point, I had still never read #1!!). Since I just HAD to get to the last book, I kind of rushed through them all, and the day I finished I started writing my own sequel, I hated the ending so much. Since I had rushed through the last books, the beginning of Through the Ashes is kind of off, even though I've tried to repair it.
That sequel turned into more of a series. Now, if you've done the math or ahead thinking, you've realized that it's taken me about 2 years to write what I now have posted. OK, more like 18 months, because I've been working on the third one for quite some time. I write almost every day, but usually it's just a sentence or two, or editing and reediting. Since it takes so long to write, often I forget what I've written previously and leave a lot of loose ends. You may or may not have noticed this. Also, a lot of the time I write without much of a plan, just let whatever comes come. For instance, I never expected to do a time travel, and I really did not plan to turn it into a soap-opera like romance, but that's what happened, and now that I've redone it a bit, I kind of like the way it's turned out. I always planned on inventing a girlfriend for Marco-he's my favorite character, and I always felt so bad for him-and now I've really established that yes, Sara is indeed that character, they can act in the not-so-subtle boyfriend-girlfriend way Jake and Cassie or Rachel and Tobias acted in the books. Other things in The Ellimist's Plan, though, like the Nartec thing.well, who knows where that came from/is going. Oh, duh. I DO! After I wrote it, I thought for the longest time how to tie that into everything else, and I finally did. But y'all can't know * evil laugh*. Not for a while, at least.
So now I'm working on the third little section/book/chapter/whatever. Although I haven't really decided on a title, one of the ones up in the air is The Coldest Night, and that may or may not be what it will end up as. Want to know what happens? Well, I hope so, or else I doubt you would be reading this.
The Yeerks master plan is revealed, since they don't seem to really be doing anything yet except enslaving pop princesses and annoying the Animorphs.
The Animorphs meet Britney Spears!
At least two of the Animorphs become deathly ill.
More mushy stuff.
One of the Animorphs has a mental breakdown (and it's not Rachel!).
Well, that's probably all I should tell you. And since I figure I should probably dedicate all this to someone, I've come up with two people. One-my younger sister, who has stolen my books, lost one of my favorites (#15.*sigh*), but most importantly, actually read all of this, and encouraged me to write more. And two-Barb, because if not for her, I would probably be saying "Ani-what?"
