| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What made you want to write a full-length novel at such a young age? Well, anything can suggest a story to me. If I hear just one sentence, that would be all I need to create a whole story. I see real pictures and I write them down. Also, my love for fiction and fantasy played a role in (inspiring me). I love reading lots of books, like up to five different books per week. Did being home schooled have a role in your writing? I have more time for writing, so I spend more time writing. Before, when I was in (regular) school, I didn't have a lot of time. I was doing homework and I had eight hours of school. Do you have plans to go beyond a trilogy? Yes, I have plans to go up to at least nine different books with the Maradonia Saga. My current book, “Maradonia and the Seven Bridges,” shows the direction of nine different books in the chapter: The nine windows. I had also a movie offer from New York, but we didn't take it because it was too low. We found out afterward that they wanted to buy my rights and sell them to a bigger movie company. I wouldn't have known what would or could happen to my story. Do you have any advice for writers who want to write a novel? I think they should first know what they are writing about. Otherwise, they are sticking to one chapter at a time and find themselves constantly in a position of editing and redeveloping. I think they should just write it all out and then go back and develop what they have. When did you start reading five books a week? I started reading up to five books in third grade. We had this big treehouse in our garden in Miami and I had gotten a whole pack of books, ‘Magic Treehouse Books’ and the interesting part is that I had my own treehouse. I sat up there day by day. I read aloud until I had no voice anymore and devoured more than sixty books during the summer vacation. Then I came back to school with an entirely new reading level, and after that I had always loved reading. Do you think the amount of reading you did had an impact on your imagination? Certainly! I have a saying which I tell younger people all the time, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." So, I was reading before and now I'm leading people into the Land of Maradonia. Reading totally opened my mind up. I usually like to read fiction and fantasy. I don't like reading nonfiction a lot. Fantasy has many different doors. You can choose one way or another way and there are so many opportunities. If you write nonfiction, it's a strict line, a straight line and that is why I like fantasy more. How many copies have been sold? The first edition had about a thousand copies and it is all sold out. For the second edition of approximately five thousand copies of “Maradonia and the Seven Bridges” a new editorial work was done and the book will be printed at the same time together with my second novel. “Maradonia and the Gold of Ophir.” |
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