Until I became an adult, and started writing all over the place. Well, I was probably writing one age range below-so when I was in college, I wrote about high school, when I was in high school, I wrote about middle school. Re-reading some of your books, and I can definitely see a middle-school perspective versus a high-school perspective in A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag and Son of Interflux. And it came out when I was 14, when I was a freshman in high school.ĭid that make you more popular with girls? Because it should have.
I actually sent it into Scholastic the following summer, so I was 13 when I signed the contract. Some of the stories I read about the origins of your career keep making you younger and younger, until it’s like you were writing in the crib. Well, don’t forget-it dates back to my seventh-grade English assignment, so it goes back a while. GORDON KORMAN: It’s probably like 85 books now. INDY: How many books have you written at this point? I was reminded on the Quail Ridge website that your backlog is so large that only two older books can be signed per customer. We spoke with Korman while he was on the road about the past, present and future of one of the most prolific children’s authors around. His latest children’s series, the SF-tinged thriller Masterminds, recently premiered its first book, which Korman will be promoting at Quail Ridge Books & Music tonight. Korman has continued his comic tales with series such as Swindle and more straightforward adventure stories-he was part of the group of authors behind bestselling series The 39 Clues. The Canadian author earned a devoted cult following in the 1980s for his ability to capture the quirkiness of young adulthood in comic novels where offbeat protagonists-from the rebellious private-school students of the Macdonald Hall series and the hyperactive teen drummer Bugs Potter to the luckless Raymond Jardine of A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag and the “Attack Jelly”-selling entrepreneur of No Coins, Please-caused chaos all around them, resulting in exploding limousines, flooded summer camps, FBI raids and an army of Manchurian Bush Hamsters emerging from beneath a school’s football bleachers during the big game. Gordon Korman penned his first children’s book, This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!, as a writing assignment in middle school-and has been publishing continuously ever since.
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