My name is Mirjam. I am 15 years old and currently live in New Zealand.
I felt obliged to write this e-mail, to thank you for your books, they have LITERALLY inspired my love for reading.
I was maybe nine or so, and at that point in my life I still had to accompany my parents everywhere. One day, while I was sitting in the car during my little sisters net-ball game, my mum gave me a book, Raising Dragons.
As I started reading I couldn’t stop, I think I broke my personal record for reading a book the fastest, which was impressive since English is my second language. I believe my mum started to regret ever giving me that book, cause at this very moment I have about 15 of your books on my shelf, and a few hundred more from various other authors, we before the most I had was my Bible and kiddie books. Dragons in our midst, oracles of fire, 1&2 of children of the bard, starlighter and tales of starlight. I have read ALL these books multiple times, and can I just say, you’re a freaking genius!!!
I have lent these books to all my friends and they love them too. If I’d never read your books, I’d never have learnt to love books the way I do, the only downside of this is that I’ve gotten in trouble for reading during class, though I think that the teachers were more impressed with the size of the books than the apparent disturbance to my learning curriculum
Yours sincerely
Mirjam