Kate Jarvik Birch
Thanks, Niki!!! I'm so happy you liked it.
To explain why I wrote Perfected you first have to understand that I’ve been an animal lover ever since I saw my first pony at the carnival when I was two. I’ve been a mini zookeeper ever since. At the moment, I have three dogs, two ducks, a bunny and we're babysitting a snake for my son's biology teacher. The dogs are like tiny shadows. Especially my dachshund who is constantly in my periphery (if not underfoot or on my lap). I’ve always assumed that my animals were happy (even lucky) to have me for an owner to shower love and affection on them, but the writer in me wasn’t totally satisfied with this idea. She saw a story inside them. So in my mind, the next obvious step between having dogs for pets and wondering if they were happy with their lives was wondering what it would be like to BE a pet. Bing! An idea was born. What if people were pets? What if I were given the choice between a life of idle luxury and freedom, which would I choose?
To explain why I wrote Perfected you first have to understand that I’ve been an animal lover ever since I saw my first pony at the carnival when I was two. I’ve been a mini zookeeper ever since. At the moment, I have three dogs, two ducks, a bunny and we're babysitting a snake for my son's biology teacher. The dogs are like tiny shadows. Especially my dachshund who is constantly in my periphery (if not underfoot or on my lap). I’ve always assumed that my animals were happy (even lucky) to have me for an owner to shower love and affection on them, but the writer in me wasn’t totally satisfied with this idea. She saw a story inside them. So in my mind, the next obvious step between having dogs for pets and wondering if they were happy with their lives was wondering what it would be like to BE a pet. Bing! An idea was born. What if people were pets? What if I were given the choice between a life of idle luxury and freedom, which would I choose?
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I need to know if you're working on a follow-up to Tarnished? Omgoshhhh....
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I hope the Prefected sequel will come out soon because i fell in love with the book within a few pages. Im a big Selection series fan so i have this this where i only seem to like books with dresses on them. I sure hope nothing bad happens to Penn and that Ella will be safe. Are you gonna write something like an epilouge afterwards? I think it would be really cute.
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