MANGO IS TEN TODAY!!
It’s been ten years since my first book — A Mango-Shaped Space — was published and it’s been a wild ride!! It took 49 rejection letters and many years of writing before that first acceptance letter, and I’m so grateful to Little Brown and Company in Boston (now NYC) who took a chance on a new writer and a strange story about a girl who sees letters and numbers in color. I want to thank all the teachers and librarians and booksellers and editors and parents and my fellow writers and especially the young readers who have read my books and haven’t stopped asking when the next one is coming out. Thank you for welcoming my stories into your heads for the last decade; I’m honored by that each and every day.
Okay, enough mushy stuff! 
Those of you who have read THE CANDYMAKERS and have asked about a movie version…well here’s your chance to contribute! A wonderful screenwriter is adapting the book and would love to know: What do you want to make sure definitely shows up on the big screen? Please share your favorite parts from the book (try to avoid spoilers though). They can even be small details, but if they meant something to you, then they’re important. Getting 450 pages into a 90-minute movie won’t be easy! Writing the script is the first step on The Candymakers’ journey to the Big Screen, so let’s all go on it together!
In book news, only 8 more weeks until PI IN THE SKY hits the shelves! I was very excited when one review journal called it: “an experimental comedy that could be a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for kids. Science and absurdity frolic together to gleeful effect.” I hope it gets everyone interested in science because that was the goal.
Twice Upon a Time: Beauty and the Beast should be out in paperback in time for summer, with THE LAST PRESENT (book 4 in the Willow Falls series) unwrapping on October 1st! I’m hoping to be able to post the first chapter of PI IN THE SKY soon, and in a few months the first chapter of THE LAST PRESENT. I’m honestly not sure what comes next in terms of any sequels to THE CANDYMAKERS or EVERY SOUL A STAR, which many of you have asked about. But if something happens, you’ll hear about it here!
And last but not least, my husband Mike and I are embarking on a new venture together…we’re writing an early reader chapter book series called SPACE TAXI!!! The first book in the series will be taking off (bad pun) Summer 2014. It’s about an 8-year-old boy who discovers his dad doesn’t just drive a regular taxi, he picks up and drops off people on other planets! Crazy adventures ensue!
As always, thank you for all your comments on these blog entries, I’m sorry i’m so far behind on posting them, it’s just that i want to respond to all your amazing thoughts and questions and there is never enough time in the day. So forgive me again, but i’m just going to post them ‘as is’ over the next few days, and hope that i answered your questions here or in a future blog.
Happy Spring!
xo
Wendy