And to think this never would have come to pass if the author had listened to the first few publishing companies she sent the first book to!!! Most of them told her it was too involved, had too many big, strange words and kids nowadays "Wanted to read about other kids like themselves"!!!!!!!!
I remember being in Costco when one of them came out, there was a pile of them up to my shoulders and about 8 feet long. One little guy who must have been about 8 years old had his copy clutched to his nonexistent chest, just daring anyone to grab it from him.
Now the author is a zillionair, and I'll bet her first husband, who dumped her and the kid so she had to live on welfare and write in coffee shops, probably to keep warm, every now and then breaks his leg kicking himself in the rear end when he needs money for something!!!!