My Profile
Overview
- "Too Stupid to Know When to Quit"
- Buzz Bucks: 99
- Posts: 81 / comments: 0
- Member since: 03/19/09
- Last Login: 07/02/09
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Info
I'm Tammy Pierce, writer of fantasy adventures with teen heroes, particularly girls who kick butt (though my books also include guys who kick butt, and my fan base includes anyone from 8 to 8, literally). I'm here on a 10-day visit before my BLOODHOUND book tour begins, to talk books, writing, and whatever with anyone who feels like talking with me!
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Favorite Subjects
reading/books, medieval and Renaissance history, fantasy, science fiction, animals/pets, natural disasters, warfare, music, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation
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Favorite Quote
Don't know where we're goin', but there's no use bein' late.
--Quigley in movie Quigley Down Under -
Favorite Authors
Laurie Halse Anderson, Bruce Coville, Diana Wynne Jones, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Barbara Hambly, Esther Friesner, Jodi Picoult, Gail Simone (DC Comics), Mark Twain, Georgette Heyer, Guy Gavriel Kay, Bill Willingham (Fables comics series), Philippa Gregory, Catherine Atkins, Alex Flynn, Gail Giles, Nancy Werlin, Brent Hartinger, Ellen Wittlinger, Jeannette Ingold, Carol Plum-Ucci, Dave Lubar, Rodman Philbrick--okay, stopping now!
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If I could be any character I'd be (and why?)
Jennifer Murdley (JENNIFER MURDLEY'S TOAD); Ripley (Alien, Aliens, etc.); Graham Reid Malett (THE DISORDERLY KNIGHTS, PAWN IN FRANKINCENSE, Dorothy Dunnett); Long John Silver, Black Dog, Blind Pew (TREASURE ISLAND); Oo Long the Dragon (TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON, R. A. MacAvoy); PeeWee (HAVE SPACE SUIT, WILL TRAVEL, Robert Heinlein)
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If I was stranded on a desert island and could only bring 3 books, I'd bring
SOME of them: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee; DISPATCHES, Michael Herr; SYLVESTER, THESE OLD SHADES, THE MASQUERADERS, VENETIA, Georgette Heyer; RULES OF SURVIVAL, Nancy Werlin; KEEPING FAITH, MY SISTER'S KEEPER, Jodi Picoult; THE GOLDEN COMPASS, THE RUBY IN THE SMOKE by Philip Pullman; LETTERS FROM THE EARTH, TOM SAWYER, THE PRINCE & THE PAUPER, Mark Twain; COMPANY AYTCH, Sam Watkins; JEREMY THATCHER, DRAGON HATCHER, THE MONSTER'S RING, JENNIFER MURDLEY'S TOAD, THE GHOST IN THE THIRD ROW, Bruce Coville; TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson; SHEEPFARMER'S DAUGHTER, Elizabeth Moon; CHANGER, Jane Lindskold
