Vivian Vande Velde
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Vivian Vande Velde (born 1951 in Rochester, New York) is an American author who writes books primarily aimed at young adults.
Vande Velde's works are typically novels and short-story collections, which usually have some element of horror, but are primarily humorous. She says in the introduction to Curses, Inc. (the collection, not the story itself) that she has been constantly trying to write a book called A Witch's Brew, but that every time she does someone or other tries to change it. She also says that she uses this as a "motivational tool" to help her keep writing; she claims she has a thing for writing books not called A Witch's Brew.
List of books
Novels
- User Unfriendly
- Heir Apparent
- Never Trust a Dead Man
- There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around
- Ghost of a Hanged Man
- A Hidden Magic
- Companions of the Night
- Now You See It . . .
- A Coming Evil
- A Well-Timed Enchantment
- Dragon's Bait
- Smart Dog
- The Conjurer Princess
- The Changeling Prince
- Wizard at Work
- Alison, Who Went Away
- Magic Can Be Murder
- Troll Teacher
- Witch's Wishes
- The Book of Mordred
Short-story collections
- Curses, Inc.
- Being Dead
- Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
- [[Once Upon a Test: Three Light Tales of Love]]
- The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
Note about Sequels
-->I truly appreciate the mail that I get asking for further adventures for many of my characters. I'm honored that you like them well enough that you want to spend more time with them. However... As much as I enjoy all (well, most of) my characters, once I finish a story, I want to move on to other people in other situations. Once a book has been published and out for a while, with readers deciding for themselves what happens after the end of the story, it hardly seems fair for the author to come back and say, Nope, you're all wrong—THIS is what happened next. Besides that, one of the reasons I became a writer was because I enjoyed mentally writing sequels to books I didn't want to end. (Or I made up new endings for stories I felt ended the wrong way.) It's an interesting exercise that you might enjoy. Meanwhile, I won't say that I'll never write a sequel to any of my stories. But I have no plans to at the moment. [Vivian Vande Velde's Website (page about sequels)] .
Books Linked Together
Although she hasn't created any sequels, she has made a few books that are linked together.- User Unfriendly and Heir Apparent
- The Changeling Prince and The Conjurer Princess
External links
- [Her Web site]
- [] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- [Vivian Vande Velde] at the Internet Book Database of Fiction
- [Vivian Vande Velde] at the Internet Book List
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