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Garrett Vander Leun

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Born

Roseville, The United States

Website

http://monster-town.com

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Young Adult, Middle Grade

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Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine, Brian Jacques, Cormac McCarthy, Charlie Huston ...more

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May 2012

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I think soup is foul, sweaty stuff.

I've been writing for a very long time, but only recently has it become sharable. My first story was dictated in preschool and it involved cars with pooping problems. In 1st Grade, I wrote a story called The Didd. It was about a husband murdering his wife. All was well and good at home, but methinks my parents could have lowered the volume on America's Most Wanted.

I love monsters, outcasts and weirdos. I'm a card-carrying member of all three. I prefer Beach Boys to Beatles and DC to Marvel. I want to work with the Muppets, I want(ed) to be interviewed by David Letterman and I'd very much like to host SNL. Please and thank you.

I really, really loved Danny the Champion of the World first - it's the book that ...more

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Garrett Vander Leun's Blog: MONSTER MAIL

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A dear friend of mine is road-tripping across the US and recently stopped in MARFA, TEXAS. I have no idea where that is. She threw up a Monster Town sticker on a pole while she was there. If you or someone you know lives anywhere near there and takes a picture of the sticker (there's some clues on how to find it if you look at flyer below it), I will mail you an autographed copy of the new, 8th ed Read more of this blog post »

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“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]”
― Cormac McCarthy

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