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Trudee Romanek

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As a kid, Trudee Romanek enjoyed reading, singing, and playing, pretending the porch railing was a horse she could ride and putting on puppet shows. She used to daydream about becoming a veterinarian or a singer, but never a writer. The only children's writers she knew about lived in England.

Her love on books took her to university for English and drama sand into the field of editing, first textbooks and then trade children's books. As the editor of Books from OWL, she learned lots working with talented non-fiction writers such as Jay Ingram, Kathy Ferris, Elizabeth MacLeod, and Sylvia Funston. Once Trudee had a family, she worked from home as a freelance editor of non-fiction and picture books and began to write small projects for magazine ...more

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Trudee Romanek The best thing? I have to pick just one? For me, I think the best thing is all of the new things I learn in the process of researching a story. I ador…moreThe best thing? I have to pick just one? For me, I think the best thing is all of the new things I learn in the process of researching a story. I adore learning new things and writing gives me a reason to do so. That's the sort of underlying "best thing" about being a writer for me, but another aspect runs a close second. That is the more in-the-moment best thing of discovering a new piece of the story you're working on, a twist or resolution that's been there all along. Those moments of elated discovery are something very special.(less)

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Trudee Romanek I'm working on a second novel right now. The original inspiration came from a tour of Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands that my family took many ye…moreI'm working on a second novel right now. The original inspiration came from a tour of Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands that my family took many years ago. I'd always thought it would make a neat setting for a story. But when I sat down to work on it, I suddenly realized that it was the situation of the people living on this river — with Canada on one side, US on the other — that interested me more. I learned some other things about the region and I already had a character in my head. When I put all those influences together, something interesting came out. (I hope!) I think I mention the castle in passing, but the story is about something else entirely. The story comes from the people.(less)

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