We have been on an incredible journey this year with a
fantastic NZ author we have become friendly with – Doug Wilson (the author of
the Tom Hassler series). It all started
in Term 2 when we read one of his Tom Hassler stories and emailed him and told
him how much we loved his story! He then
responded and answered our questions, and then came and visited us – to meet us
and talk about what it was like to be an author. He then was so inspired by meeting us and our
enthusiasm for his writing that he created a novel about us! It is a tale about us going on a school camp
when an evil organisation takes over the district of Waikato and we have to
save the day! We read it as a shared
story and each of us had a part to play!
We loved the story about us. Doug
then told us that he was sending it to his editor, to perfect and clarify the
story. He also check that each student
had a part and were mentioned in the novel.
Today we had another email from Doug, to tell us that the
special story he wrote about Room 14 has been sent to the publisher! Woohoo, we are now waiting for a response
from them, but have our fingers and toes crossed that they love it and are keen
to publish it for the NZ market. Doug
has also said that if it does get published he would be happy to print 100
copies, with a fine tweak to make the school Vardon, to give to our school as a
donation to use or sell how we saw fit, and with our class doing the cover
art for this one off micro launch
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