[StarLily]

Thanks, Lemur-girl and Starlily

your most welcome *curtsy* :D

[Silver Serpent]

very polite Starlily!lol. I was wondering about the whole 'alison/ms croggon' thing too- I must admit- I really embarrased myself when I found this forum and Alisons website.I sent a really formal e-mail to alison- then when I got one back :eek: :D :eek: saying thanks,from alison- lets put it I was pretty embarrased.
Surely no other popular + famous author actually talks to so many fans!:D
One of a Kind Alison! :D :D WOOHOO!:D :D
*I'm a bit (only a teensy weensy bit)) hyper.hehe:D

[StarLily]

one of a kind alison! that's great silver serpent! :D

[Lemur_Girl]

Yes, she is :D she responded to an email of mine not too long ago :o I was sooo happy!!! :D I did the same thing to Keneth Oppel a long time ago and he was all...yo thanks but yer creepin' me out kid :cool: not that that's bad but it probably takes alot of time and energy to answer the MANY fan letters that an author gets :o

btw I still think Keneth Oppel is cool :cool: even if I creep him out :D

[Silver Serpent]

I did the same to Philip Pullman-and I just got back-
Thank you for e-mailing Philip Pullman. He is not available to answer your mail,but please keep up to date on the website.Thank you.
PP
or something similar..:rolleyes:

[Lemur_Girl]

oh, the "I'm sorry I don't care about my fans enough/I am too popular to write them an actual letter" letter. ;) don't worry, at least we have Alison :D

[StarLily]

yep she is actually a very different author from most! and thats a good thing!:D

[alison]

Reminds me, I'm behind on my correspondence...

Well, I really I love being flattered... :D And this is clearly the place for it.

But seriously, I do enjoy genuinely enjoy hearing from fans. I do write these books for readers, after all...And it's, well, really nice. But every author is different, and writers can be very anti-social (it's often why they're writers). Answering can be time consuming, and perhaps there may come a time when I won't be able to answer every mail, but I hope I never get blase about getting them.

I try to answer all the emails sent to me, because when I was young and people wrote back to me, it was such a thrill (actually, I still write fan letters - I wrote one not long ago to a writer I greatly admire, John Berger, and he wrote back - and not only that, a hand written letter!)

Philip Pullman told me off for spelling his name wrong when I wrote to him, but I think he's a bit grumpy. I don't mind grumpy writers - I'm married to one and I've always got on with grumpy people - but you must realise that it isn't personal!

[Tari]

LMAO. . . .I wish i got on with grumpy people. . . .Thanx for the laugh Alison. . .needed that actually. . .:D

~ Tari

[Silver Serpent]

I have to get on with grumpies-my dad (he's either xtremely funny-or v grumpy!lol)
my form tutor-he looks like a toad.