Author Spotlight - Gordon Korman

I just saw Gordon Korman present at one of my middle schools. I have to tell you, it is so fun for me to meet authors. I love reading books and to get to meet an author is a great experience because you really get to hear where a story comes from and how he or she goes about writing.

Gordon Korman wrote his first book when he was in 7th grade! He explained that his teacher gave an assignment asking students, basically, just to write...and he did. When he finished his book, he mailed it off to Scholastic, and by luck, they published his book. From there, he just kept on writing and has now written a lot of books.

The entire 7th grade read his book, Schooled. It was interesting to hear him talk about books he has published and how he came up with the idea for Schooled. He explained that some of his stories come from experience, and others come from his imagination. He was doing a presentation at a school when he noticed some students who were home-schooled. He noticed that they seemed out of place amongst the other students and that is where he came up with the idea of a character like Capricorn Anderson, for Schooled.

This picture turned out kind of dark, but you can see him on the stage if you look closely.  

Here I am with Gordon Korman! You can see I am wearing my tie-dye t-shirt in honor of the 60's theme of the book.

Gordon Korman also talked about his newest book that will be released in December. The book is called One False Note. This new book is the 2nd book in series, The 39 Clues. There will be ten books in the series, and each book is going to be written by a different author. Rick Riordan wrote the first book, and Gordan Korman wrote the second. I am really anxious to check this series out.