Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
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MICHAEL MORPURGO I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'... GAIL CARRIGER There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of a... BILL MEDLEY I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ... MALORIE BLACKMAN My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho... TED DEKKER I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... DAVID S. GOYER One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric... CHESTER BROWN I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say th... DWYANE WADE What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. 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