Readers' ideas

A group of students associated with the Ladysmith Library in Caroline County recently read "Ghost of the Chicken Coop Theater" and has been corresponding with me about it. They wanted to be characters in my next book. I asked them what type of character they would be. Their answers made me smile.

Kaitlin said, "My name would be Emily Stowers, and I want to be in the middle of mean and nice, and I want glasses and a dog the kind is a yorky, so cute!!! Anyway, I love your book and have a great day."

Addison wrote, "I want to be a street racer who is protectful. I want to . . . have red spikey hair with black highlights. Car to look like . . . to have blue flames with the engine sticking out. A Lamborginni. A dog named spot."

Kirby said," I want to be a girl. She has long blond har, a lime green Mini Cooper, and I wood be good. My name wood be coco."

Grace wrote, "I would like to be an adventurous problem solver named Alex. I would like to have brown hair and my favorite color would be camoflage. I want it to be in the present time. I want to be rich, with no job, with a Camo Eclipse. I want to have a jack russel dog named Buster."

Morgan said, "The character I would like to have my different name. Rosey Elizabif Collins. Shady and nice/mean. Light blond hair with black and red high lights. "

Micheal said, "My character would have the same name. I will be happy and mad. I'd have blond hair. I would be a wrestler and also be strong and I'd have a nusky named spike. Oh and he is a boy with blue and green eyes. P.S. the Dog would be nice to good people and mean to bad people."

I think their ideas are wonderful and have actually changed the spelling of one of my characters in book seven from Cocoa to Coco.