This week’s author spotlight is on Erin Soderberg Downing! She has lived in multiple different places, such as New York City, England, Sweden, and Minneapolis, where she now lives with her husband and three children. She also has two dogs: a Goldendoodle named Wally (who was the inspiration for the main character of her books, the Puppy Pirates series) and an Aussie doodle named Nutmeg. Besides writing, Downing has had several jobs, including a waitress, a malt-maker, a cookie inventor, a children’s book editor, a boat tour guide, and as a worker for Nickelodeon. She says that all of these jobs have given her great inspiration for writing. Erin Soderberg Downing has several pen names, which include Kate Howard and Nessi Monstrata. She has written over fifty books. Some of her children’s novels include the Quirks series (published from 2013-2015), Best Friends (Until Someone Better Comes Along) (2014), For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only (2014), the Puppy Pirates series (2015-2019), Moon Shadow (2017), and the Daring Dreamers Club series (2018-2019). An upcoming book of hers is When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie (coming out on April 6, 2021). In addition to her children’s stories, she has written some romantic comedies for adults & young adults. She has also written many young-reader books with characters that other people have created. An interesting fact about her book, Quirks, is that she wrote ten drafts and took three years to publish the story. Downing writes whenever an idea strikes. One time, she had to write on a pizza-sauce-and-grease-covered paper plate while at a birthday party! She says that she works to “inspire a lifelong love of reading for fun”. To get ideas for stories, she explains that she listens and observes the world around her. Downing has many popular stories that interest many young readers. Be on the lookout for her newest book coming out! She will be visiting several classes at GATE on April 5th. If you would like to buy a signed copy of her upcoming book, you can buy it from here: https://www.redballoonbookshop.com/great-peach-experiment%C2%A0virtual-midwest-book-tour to get it shipped to your house or from here: https://my.cheddarup.com/c/signed-copy-of-when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-peach-pie through our school store. Author: Erin Soderberg Downing Website: https://www.erinsoderberg.com/index.html Sources: https://www.erinsoderberg.com/about-erin.html & https://www.erinsoderberg.com/on-writing.html Comments are closed.
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