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Kathleen Duey

Kathleen Duey's works include the middle grade series American Diaries and Survival, and the well-reviewed chapter book series The Unicorn's Secret, with a companion series, The Faeries' Promise, launching in Summer 2010 on the Aladdin list. She lives... Read full bio

Author Revealed:
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Get there. Add to the good.
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Revealing Questions
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Have had some very dark days. Happy, now. I love writing.
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Get there. Add to the good.
Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
A. SO, the first question stumps me? 

Hmmm.
Happiness is different things on different days for me. And perfect happiness might not exist in any case.
Today?  The sun is out, after a long morning of fog. I can hear my dog Adah digging her "sun bath" area in the back yard, which is messily full of plants I love. There is no wind, but the air is moving. I know this because my office fills with the smell of oranges every time it shifts to the west. 

All of that together is perfect happiness for me.
For today.
On Books and Writing
Q. How did you come to write Moonsilver?
A. The Unicorn's Secret series is tightly based on dreams I had in third and fourth grade. I would go to bed here, in the real world, and wake up there, in Heart's world. When I was sleepy there, I would close my eyes and wake up here...